The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-28

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 from his paper to remark that since 1t was written the present attack of yellow fever in Texas had developed. He de- cfared be would not have believed 1t pos sible with the associations present knowl- edge that yellow fever would have been allowed to obtain a foothold there. Some body is responsible" he said. Although cholera, yellow fever and the bubonic plague" he continued. ''are no longer feared by sanitarians; we have not yet conquered our endemic filth disease. ty- phoid fever and tuberculosis still claims nearly I5000o victims annually within the limits of the United States"
 Until these and other widely prevalent infectious diseases are practically stamped out" he said. :'our self-imposed task will not be complete"
 The report of the committee on animal diseases and food having reference to the phase of tuberculosis which relates to its transmission from the animal to the hu- man being was presented by pr. De Sal- mon of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Washington, D. c. Clinical evidence. sta- tistics and experimental tests. he declar- ed. all favor the conclusion that bovine tuberculosis was factor in human tue berculosis The source of the milk sup ply, he urged, should be carefully attend ed to. It will require much work. he con tinued, to decide with even approximate accuracy the proportion of human tuber- culosis caused by animal infection. but the fact that 25 per cent. of these cases in children investigated by the German commission, and 50 per cent. of similar cases investigated by De Schwinitz, of Washington showed animal infection is sufficient to prove the necessity of meas ures to be taken and forced to guard against the infection of children through milk.
 In the discussion which followed, pr. Guiteras of Havana, the yellow fever expert, said that although in Cuba the invariable custom is to boil milk, he be- iieved the infantile tuberculosis in Cuba Is as frequent as anywhere else
 The committee on car sanitation re- ported through Dr. J. N. Hurty of In- dianapolis, Ind. There is a unanimity of opinion, he said, regarding the transport ation by common carrier of persons sick with smallpox. leprosy, yellow fever and typhoid fever
 Leprosy. he declared. is not as easily transmitted as tuberculosis, and compared to the latter in its destructiveness of hu- man life 1t amounts to nothing at all Yet he said riot would follow the in- troduction of a leper into railway car
 The word tuberculosis he contended, makes little or no impression. in face of the almost certainty that not less than 10000 of those now living in the United States vii be dead of consumption within another twelve months and three times that number will be attacked in the same period.
 He was followed by pr. Bruena of Mexico. and Granville P. Conn of Con- cord, N. H. Each urged the adoption of meastTes compelling the proper building ventilating and cleaning of railway cars
 At the afternoon session there was gem eral discussion of the question of car ventilation, the concensus of opinion be- ing that the air in sleeping cars becomes vitiated and that they are fruitful sources of disease. The delegates were outspoken in condemnation of the alleged lack of at- tention to the matter of cleaning blan- kets and furnishings in sleeping cars. pr. J. H. Mccormick of the State Board of Health Of Kentucky, declared that an of ficial investigation by him showed that the blankets were cleaned only once every six months. Dr. C. B. Dudley of AL toona, Pa. chemist for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, demanded the dele gates furnish the data on which they based their statements. It was not fair he said, to request railroads to spend large sums of money in this direction un- til they knew where they stood.
 The report of the Committee on Cause and Prevention of infant Mortality was read by Dr. Henry Mitchell. Chairman of the State Board of Health, Asbury Park, N. J.
 In a parer on Immigration as it affects the public health, Dr. A. J. Mclaughlin, Assistant Surgeon of the Marine Hos pital Service, declared that the real dan gers in this class of immigrants whose physique is much below the American standards, whose employment is in the sweat shop and whose residence Is typi- fe& by the East Side tenements in New York City.
 Papers were read on 'The Preparation of Vaccine Virus" by John F. Anderson. NJ D., United States Marine Hospital Service; Pertaining to the Transporta- tion of Dead" by Dr. H. M. Bracken, St. Paul, Minn., and on "The Desirability of af Agreement between Sanitary Authori- ties of Adjoining Counties for mutual De- fense against Transmissible Diseases" by Dr. Eduardo Liceaga. President Superior Board of Health Mexico
 The feature of tonight's session of the American Public Health Association was the annual address of the President. pr. Walter Wyman. Surgeon General of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. He said in part:
 "I believe that the unsanitary condition of our cities presents a condition parallel to that of their political corruption. Mu- nicipal betterment would proceed faster if it's promoters believed that an achieve ment may fail when too much at one time is attempted, but which may succeed by efforts in detail"
 Moral reforms Dr. Wyman thought would more easily follow better sani- tation. Large cities here and abroad, he said. have shown the effect on health and commercial prosperity of public sanitary measures. Among others, he mentioned New York with it's tenement house vicin- ities: San Francisco. in it's sanitary strug- gle in Chinatown; Memphis with it's sew craze formation and the warfare against yellow fever in Havana.