New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-03-16
QUELLING THE new PLAGUE
What is Being Done to Control
Consumption.
Instructive Lecture by DIR. H. Long.
street Taylor.
Advocates Sanitoriums and Open
Air Treatment.

What can be accomplished by scien-
tific treatment in the way of control
ling and curing the dread disease.
consumption, and what is being done
by the nations of the earth toward
quelling the new plague, was graph
cally described by DR.. II. Longstreet
Taylor of ST. Paul, in his lecture on
tuberculosis at the Congregational
church Friday evening. DR.. Taylor
is the chairman of the commission for
the establishment of state sanitar-
ium for consumptives and is recog-
nized authority on the subject. He
has travelled widely in this and other
countries to familiarize himself with
it and his lecture denotes deep study.
Many Of the assertions he made were
complete revelations to his large audi
ence and the information he impaired
was of such a nature that it would not
be amiss for some Minnesota legislator
to draft a bill employing corps Of
men such as he to spread the gospel
of prevention.
DR.. Taylor came to New Ulm under
the auspices of the Brown and Red
wood County Medical society and was
introduced by its president, DR.. G.. B.
Weiser. In his opening remarks he
stated that his discourse would have
to do with the disease which was right
ly entitled to the appellation Of 'sThe
King of Death.' Throughout the civ
ilized world it caused more deaths
than all other diseases combined but,
contrary to the popular belief and ex-
cept in advanced stages: it could be
cured by scientific treatment. He com
pared the menace to the Black Death
that swept over Europe and decimated
whole cities, to the bubonic plague
and to the later small pox. All of
these had been regarded as invulnera-
bic but sanitary and other precautions
had practically caused them to disap-
pear and he declared that in time
tuberculosis would do likewise.
Illustrative of the great mortality
among tubercular sufferers he recalled
the Iroquois theatre disaster in Chica-
go, speaking of the great horror Of the
American people over the catastrophe.
They did not realize that the prodigi-
Gus number of 400 deaths occurred
daily in this country from consumption
and felt little Or no concern for their
own safety. A series of stereopticon
views were thrown upon the canvass
and charts set forth the ravages of the
disease. The first showed the ratio of
deaths from tuberculosis, as compared
with other maladies, and another
illustrated the fact that it's victims
were mainly persons in the prime of
| life. On map of this country was
charted the death rates in the various
states. California, the Mecca of hope
less consumptives, maintained the lead,
while he was compelled to announce
that in Minnesota the rate was on the
increase. In the trades and professions
it was shown that mortality was great.
est among miners and least among
bank presidents, a singular fact an6
one which probably explains why sc
many men exhibit a preference fol
ekeing out an existence in a counting
| house.
Prior to 1882, DR.. Taylor remarked
there had been great difference of opin
ion among physicians over the theory
that the malady was hereditary and ir
that year Prof. Koch's discovery O:
the tuberculosis bacilli practically
removed all doubt. The idea thai
tuberculosis passed down from one
generation to the next had been dis
proved, but the fact remained that the
progeny of consumptives inherited
weak constitutions and we're, there
fore, more exposed to contagion. II
France there are several institutions
where these children are gathered III