Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-11
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TUBERCULOSIS
Foundation Completed For Ex-
haustive Report on This Sub
ject, to Iowa Legislature
JUDGE k,NNE COMPLIES FACTS
Result Of Important Investigation Au-
thorized and Directed by the Lesis-
laturs.-Efforts to Establish State
Institution For tho Care Of consump.
tives, to Be Renewed.

| institution For tho Care OF SoHsuWP
tives, to Be Renewed.
Special to Times Republican.
!. Des Moines Nov ll.-Just be1ore
starting for Sioux City yesterday to
attend the annual state conference OF
| charities and corrections. Judge l.. q.
Kinne. of the state board OF control
completed n compilation of facts which
as foundation for an exhaustive re-
port to the next legislature on the eS-
tent OF tuberculosis in Iowa and the
best means Of prevention and treat
ment of the disease. The investigation
has been going on for the past four or
/ five months Judge Kline devoting
| 1t was an investigation authorized ani
directed by the legislature and many
regard 1t as one of the most important
matters set on foot by the legislature.
| physicians of the state besought of the
/ legislature that 1t appropriate large
sum of money for the establishment OF
u state institution for the care Of con-
sunlptives They were In dead earnest
In their views that more good could be
done in this way than in almost any
other one thing the Legislature could
do. 1t is known that the effort is 10 be
renewed at the next session. The leg
slators generally were much Impress
ed with the array of facts presented
them but they felt that they were not
ready to act until more detailed and
official investigation was made. This
is what was authorized. Informally
Judge Kline will report to the state
charities ana corrections conference orr
the results of the preliminary investi-
cation, for the legislature contemplate
ed the widest publicity to all informa-
ton secured.
The investigation was commenced
with an inquiry addressed to seventy
three experts in tuberculosis In all
parts of the world, from which 1t was
decided that the right thing to do WAS
to secure statistics from the physicians
of the state as to the cases treated
in the past, but that 1t was not wise
to place cases under observation be-
cause of the shortneses of time and the
small funds All of these experts adj
vised the following as desirable for the
location of either a temporary or per-
manent hospital for the treatment Of
itubercular patients. viz: pure air. Il
/ considerable elevation, reasonable
distance from city or town. good drain
age timber protection. southern ex-
posure A few advised high altitude
of from 1900 to several thousand fee.
as desirable, although the greater
number favored moderate elevation
and deemed out of door care and prop
er treatment more important than al
titude.
| During the month of September
blanks we're mailed to all the physic-
ians in Iowa, 1852 in number, and
up to the evening of October 20. 1904
replies had been received from 1886,
of whom 67S reported no cases and 91S
reported one or more cases or those
not reporting cases few had retired
| from practice and some had removed
| from the state or died. The 918 ply
sicians reported $500 cases as exist
ing during the year ended June 80,
1904.
! In regard to the age of the patients
the following was shown: One year
and under, 90; two to ten years in
elusive 1876: eleven to twenty, 4S5;
twenty lone to thirty, 1,161; thirty-one
to forty, 79S; forty-one to fifty, 299;
fifty-one ito sixty, 2O3; sixty-one to
seventy, 1OS; seventy one to eighty, SO;
over eighty lone, 8; age not given, 49.
| In regard to social state there were
married 1892, single 1,507, widows ia,
widowers 20, not stated IL.
| Only 81 were black in color.
e.s
In summarizing his facts Judge Kim
ne obtained the following which he will
present ito the conferences:
at appears that of the $500 cases
reported 1872 were males and 1879 fe-
males, 40 sex not given, being an ex-
cess of over 500 females over males,
and this notwithstanding the fact chat
according to the federal census OF 1900
there We're S1,S45 more males than fe-
males in this state.
"The disease is most prevalent from
twenty one to thirty years inclusive
and from thirty-one to forty years in
elusive. There were 1.161 cases COM
ing within the first period mentioned
and 79S within the last period Six
| hundred and forty-three of the total
number afflicted were under twenty
one years of age, and 1902 were under
forty-one wears of age, or more than
two-thirds of the total number repor-
ted. 1t thus appears that very large
per cent Of the cases occur during the
productive period of life when men and
women should be most capable OF earn
ing and accommodating.
More than four-fifths of the cases
are of pulmonary character and in
many cases the disease has affected
both the lungs and other parts OF the
body. In almost onethird of the total
number. the disease was found in per-
sons Of foreign birth The federal CEN
sus of 1900 shows that there We're IN