Arizona republican., 1902-03-13
In no part of the country is there q more lively interest than in Arizona in


 more lively interest than in Arizona In the apparently endless HOW controversy concerning DOCTORS the danger of catch DISAGREE. ing consumption. This is because of the large number of tubercular patients who come to the territory seeking relief. and the many articles and addresses | by physicians taking one side or the other on the question of infection. Dr. John Ingliss prominent practitioner of Colorado Springs, contributes an inter esting article on the subject to the Journal of the American Medical as socia tion, in which he says:
 The recent agitation in California shows growing tendency to make the life of a tuberculous patient miserable. It is said to be done in the interests of the people and for the good of the states that are to bar these unhappy victims. But in fact it is due to nothing less than what may be called | tuberculophobia. Physicians are 10 q great extent responsible for this. There are too many exaggerated statements about the contagiousness of tubercu- l losis. Here is a city built up almost entirely by it's fame as health resort for lung patients; also because no use i less restrictions have been placed upon | invalids. Yet it is a fact that there are hundreds of people in Colorado, who came for their health. have re- gained it and taken up permanent resi- dence, who now advocate the passing of | laws restricting others from gaining 1 their health in the same way. A l young man from the east went to New Mexico over year ago. He arrived in a town where he found the people so afraid of a consumptive that it was with the greatest difficulty he secured boarding, and he was unable to find a place in the town where he could rent a room permanently. Disheartened and discouraged he turned eastward again. only to die. Such fear is noth- ing short of criminal. It seems to me that the medical profession at least should be the friend of the sick. Even consumptives are entitled to some rights.
 The plan suggested or isolating them in colonies like lepers is both inhuman
  depressing to the mental condition of a consumptive it is in being thrown into constant contact with so many others in his own state. Whatever may be the legal right of a state to shut the citizens of other states out from it's natural advantages 0nougt we doubt the legality of iD there can be no question about the inhumanity of such law.
 Any physician knows that tuberculo- sis is neither contagious nor infection. as the ordinary layman understand+ those terms. Yet We meet with people who will walk a block out of theil way to keep from passing one of these poor victims. A few days ago I wa: called to see man who works at onJ of the hotels of this city. He had { severe cold and an accompanyint cough. His first question was: "DC you think I could have caught con sumption?' I inquired how. Well. he said. there were some men stopping here who had it. I found out tha the men referred to had stopped at th' hotel over night. and my patient haC an idea he might have taken it iron them he would smallpox. No worC but panic" expresses the present atti tude toward this disease in some quar ters.