New-York tribune., 1902-06-05
URGES WAR ON PHTHISlS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TUBERCULo-
SIS CONGRESS COMES TO AN END.

The American Congress Of tuberculosis closed
its annual meeting at the Hotel Majestic yester-
day afternoon by electing new officers and pass
ing resolutions. In preamble the resolutions
declared that tuberculosis is an infectious dis
ease. ordinarily communicated from person TO
person by means of the dried sputum of con-
surnptive patient" and that the spread OF
tuberculosis could be largely controlled by
proper care Of such sputum and the enforcement
OF comparatively simple measures
Il is then declared that health authorities
should spread as widely as possible correct in
formation as to the manner in which the disease
is produced, and the means TO be employed for
its prevention. The remaining resolutions fol-
low:
That we believe it be the duty of the national
State and municipal governments to enact rational
methods for the prevention of tuherculosls ano we
recommend the establishment of institutions for the
OF INDECENT consumptives.
That there should be State and municipal super
pr 1ftiI m @ fb 7oors % of nubc conVevances
% res5 4 ~ teTcnlolis and is INJURIOUS to
the public health. IT IS recomnended that trans-
T@ P09 6F a sc be induced to pass and enforce
That appropriations should be requested from
State and municipal governments Tor the puonca.
tion and distribution OF literature as means of
berculosis
That al cases Of tuberculosis should be reported
by attending physician 10 the health boards
for the purpose Of the distnfecton of houses occu
pied by consumptives-
place for the next annual meeting and make all
the arrangements. The of7cers are the following
Honorary president, Dr. H. D. Hoton. of YER
President, DR.. Daniel Lewis, Of New-York City.
ztY f -Tss ISsrrick u of ToTonto:
Watson. OF New-Hampshre. and SeTor Romoa- or
Secretary DR. George Brawn Of Georgia.
Treasurer, Dr. P H. Bryce. Of Toronto
At the morning session of the congress Pro
fessor ]. G. Adami, of McGin University, Mon
treaL read paper on tuberculosis in Relation
to the Live Stock Industry" which led TO dis
cussion. He said in part:
It may be asked why. If bovine tuberculosis has
has spread to such an alarming extent? The an
swer would seem clearly TO be that the spread is
cattle Industry and especially OF the ease OF trans
It is to the commercial and monetary signi1canoe
Of this spread that would specifically draw atten.
what is far and away the greatest INDUSTRY OF the
& i & ce o bE}cen E 0s5e ona m ~ t,s the great
business centres. not merely OF the States but OF
business in its stock yards during the last year
exceeded the combined other industries that city
by $50 600 eoo FigreS like these give US some idea
try. and help realize that anything seriously
he general Welfare Of the tS community at large
What wish You to consider is the enormous m S, loss
of cattle if only per cent Of the animals slaugh
T6 nr1sec9e M Ios IS 50 reat sf tis IS %
diately seen TO be q national concern.
DR.. n. Markiewicz. in a paper entitled The {
Obligation of the State in Reference to Heredity
and Acquired tuberculosis of Children" among
other things said:
In my opinion cannot rely such statistics |
have present in respect to deaths from |
tubercular diseases and will be able to |
rely these reports If life insurance companies do
not change their system Of insuring. AS long & |
such excluded from the benefit, and the |
families Of the deceased deprived Of their only help
IN their misfortune. people Will always find physi-
clan who for charitable other considerations will
certify that his patient died from disease |
other than consumption.
Professor Robert Koch Reviewed. was the .
theme Of paper read by DR.. c. c. Carroll of |
this city He said that the statement made by |
Professor Koch that human hacili derived from |
the sputa Of consunlptive patients will affect
cattle might have been found to be baseless had |
the great scientist, besides examining the inter-
nal organs. searched in the flank of the beast |
At the afternoon session, at the suggestion of |
DIR. Frank Paschal, of San Antonio, Tex, the !
congress- without q dissenting vote requested Z
Dr. Carroll to withdraw the paper which he had
read DIR. Paschal explained that DR.. Carroll
during recess distributed among the delegates q
il would not be proper that his views about Pro- /
fessor Koch should become a part of the record. |