The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-12-18
CONSUMPTION
The Modern Crusade Working
Wonders Against This Dread
Disease.

ing Fisher, Professor OF Political
Economy at Yale University and
Secretary OF the New Haven
County Anti.TuberculOsis Associa-
tion.
Continued from last we,f.)
These four features, then, the
air, food, rest, and mind cures,com.
bined with due use Of sunlight,
bathing, clothing, otc., constitute
the modern sanatorium treatment,
! believe, to have far.reaching and
profound influence not only in dis
missing and ultimately eradlcat-
Ing tuberculosis, but in likewise
Kidding us OF other diseases, length
ening human life and making 1t
healthier and more worth living.
Already the death rate from tubor-
culosis is rapidly decreasing In
England 1t declined In seventy
years from 80 per 10000 OF popu-
iaiion 10 l3. Although ssnaloria
did not oxist In the early part OF
this period, England did have tand
was the first country 10 introduce
consumptive hospitals " h C h
served like isolation wards TO pre-
vent the spread OF infection.
These hospitals, together with the
English love Of out-of-door sports
and use OF yentilatlng appliances
and open iireplaces, are probably
the explanation OF their growing
freedom from consumption. In
France the conditions and results
are both opposite. In Germany
during the last fifteen years, the
deati. rate has declined from 81 tC
| l95-a full third less. In tht
United States the death-rate II
, 1900, In the area for which regis
tration has been well kept, was l9
as against 26 in 1890, showing ;
decline of twenty-five per cent. II
ten years. 1t is no losing fgh
which is being made against th,
disease. Every blow tells, and 1
is conservative prediction tina
the next three decades will eacl
see more remarkable improve
ment, Many more sanatoria ar,
needed, Any one institution cal
do but little, although a singl,
sanatorium OF Germany record
20S living graduates OF three years
standing or more.
II must never be forgotten tina
chief, | would like to say tn
chief, effect of the increasing nun
ber OF sauatoria distribute
throughout the world will be nc
oH\ their patients but on the
nelk khborhood. They will graz
ually effect a revolution in Il
habits OF living OF the communit.
This is my hope and belief, n,
Is 1t dream only, The etfec
are already plainly visible. !
DR.. Knopf has pointed out, in Ge
many the death, from consum
tion have enormously decreased
: localities where consumptive san
toria have long been establish,
for the reason that the. sanatorlu
= has been an object-lesson and
= graduates unconscious ml>sio
u arlet. Such a sanatorium is not
! menace to public health, as ma
= fouli lilly fear, but an ,ill lie
means ot improving sanitary a
hygienic conditions and habits.
The methods Of such AN ins
lr tuition are not Specific" for tub,
A. culosis; they are simp'y t
,r me Il ods OF living which proiu
: and maintain general health, a
J. which all who wish to impro
I'd their vitality should adopt.
10 short, well conducted consumpti
y sanatorla are today the create
: practical schools Of hygiene in t
=, world. Already their metho
{" have been adopted In the treatme
II OF nervous prostratlon and 9th
Q. chronic ailments. A wide obs,
walton also shows that people W
s. keep well, live long, aud ha
n abundant working power a
almost Invariably persons "
have followed, unconsclously
may bc, some or all OF the 70
~ cardinal principles OF hygiel
THE hale and hardy work.
y, Mayor of Toledo h a b itual
sleeps out-of-doors. Whole fan
lies that know in California a
" Colorado do likewise and malnls
an enviable level of good heal
A f,w in New England follow
same methods ana obtain
same results. have examin
the facts about my centenarla
'et Most OF them follow out.of-d(
." vocatlons, or, II not, have out
~ door avocations. Thus a bunl
~ cenlenarlan was passlonately
"a voted to gardening. Nor hi
es they followed air-hyglene alo
NO Almost invariably they hi
pg avoided worry; that is, they ha
pracilced mind hygiene, One
tributes his longevity to thorou
mastlacatlon there Is food hygie
nd Another asslgus sound sleep-l
VS. hygiene.
,st Just as long.llved people with
'es TO the truth OF tho four cardl
re. rules OF hygiene by their coniorl
no ~ 10 them, so short-liyed peo