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School Courses.

1t is a fact that doctors in town arc
frequently called upon, even now, TO
deliver talks on consumption, or, rather.
precautions to be taken against ii in
the different schools. But these taIks
are too few and far between ard are
very apt to pass in one ear and cut
of the other; whereas IL there were a
regular course in this subject. which the
pupils were required to pass in order
to graduate from the school there
would be different result. So much
for the educational part of the crusade
against disease-other diseases could be
included in TIE course
Instruction in public schools should,
of course, be supplemented by popular
lectures and tracts distributed at public
expense, designed to reach persons who
have passed the school age
For the benefit of those who know
what TO do, but who are unwilling to do
IL. Government aid should be provided
in the way of free meteorological ex-
aminations of sputa so as to facilitate
the early recognition of the disease free
sons in the advance stages Of the dis
ease, and sanitarlum accomoda lions
free or at the actual cost thereof, to
persons in the early stages OF the di-
sease and for whom reasona BILE hope of
recovery can be entertained. The patient
and his friends should be made to feel
that the attitude of the sanitary author
!ty is a desire TO help and noe Il de-
sire to restrict or limit the patient s
comfort.
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
Death to the Mosuuito.

Malaria1 fever requires yet different
measures for its prevention 1t is now
recognized that this disease is spread
only through the agency of certain
variety of mosquitoes 1t must be said
however, to the credit of these insects,
that they spread the disease only as
they come into contact with patients
suffering from malarial diSeaSes, the
mosquito is safe until she has sucked
the blood OF an infected individual The
prevention of the disease requires,
therefore, the prompt cure of all cases
of malarial infections. SO that there may
be fewer foci for mosquitoes to feast
upon, and the determination OF mos
quitoes.
The hotbed of malaria, in the District
is the Anacostia Flats. These fats
breed innumerable malaria mosquitoes.
A report has already been made to Con-
these fats The lowest figure given was
81 S93 $40 If, however, this work Of
reclamation was accomplished. malaria
would receive a severe blow. That the
expenditure of this sum would mean the
loss of 1t 20 the Government is by no
means certain, as there is a possibility
that the Government might claim the
new land. which would in time be val
uable and would more than pay for the
reclamation
In addition to the reclamation of the
AnacoStia Flats 1t has been suggested
that ten Inspectors be appointed to
see that all ponds and low grounds in
the District which breed mosquitoes be
redeemed. A thousand dollars would
be a good salary for each Inspector
The prevention of dlarrhOeal diseases
of infancy depends upon the proper
education of parents and nurses as to
the Importance of diet with respect to
young children, and upon the intelligent
supervision of the milk supply. There
is reason to believe that practically all
cases of such diseases are due TO errors
of diet and that many of them are due
to the bad condition Of the milk as 1t
is taken into the stomach of the in
fant. The bad condition of the milk
may or may not be chargeable TO the
dairyman, especially IN the houses or
the poor where the facilities for keep
ing milk are not of the best and the
knowledge as TO the precautions to be
taken in keeping II is entirely absent
The dairyman is. however, not infre-
quently TO blame, and public effort with
respect to this matter should extend
not only to the education of the par
ents and nurses but also to the cultiva-
ton in the 6airyman of proper ideas as
TO wnat is required with respect to this
article OF food and the cultivation OF
a proper sense of his own responsibility
with reference to the health and the
very lives of his customers
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
Preventing Diphtheria.

The principles underlying the preven-
ton of tuberculosis do not differ from
the principles whice underly the pre-
ventIon of certain 1ther communica BILE
diseases. Scarlet fever is spread Il nj
patient 20 ps,-en- by either direct or
Indirect contact, as is tuberculosis The
infected particles are given off with the
discharges from the air passages of the
patient and with particles of the skin
The sarne is true with reference to
measles. = is true, also, with refer
ence to diphtheria and probably true
with reference TO whooping cough, ex-
eept that with reference to neither of
these diseases is there any danger from
the skin itself.
The prevention of these maladies re-
quires that so far as is possible the
government afford necessary aid in their
early recognition, notably in the case
of diphtheria where the free exarnina-
ton of cultures Is; essential; that II
see that every member OF the commu-
nifty IS properly instructed with ref
erence TO the nature and causes of
these diseases and the channels through
which they are spread; that it provide
proper hospital accommodations; and
that 1t provide means whereby such dis
Infection as is necessary may be ac-
complished With respect to these dis
eases, too N view of their brief dura-
ton and in view of the fact that pa
tients are not unusually confined to the
house by the very nature of the Illness,
there is every reason why the govern
ment should require persons suffering
therefrom to remain at least within
the precincts of the premises on which
they reside, removing them, If their
presence on such premises constitutes
a real danger. as possibly it may IN
apartment houses and tenement houses,
to suitable hospitals or other places of
detention.
1t is not known that milk conveys
whooping cough or measles, and when
il conveys scarlet fever or diphtheria
it does so not because the cow is suffer
ing from either of these diseases but be
cause the dairyman or some one ABOUT
his premises is suffering from the mala-
DIV and has come directly or indirectly
into contact with the milk
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WHICH z

necessary for his comfort and for his
recovery, If recovery be possible; to see
that the patient and those about him
know what is necessary for the preven-
tion of disease, and to see that they do
whatever may be necessary for that
end. Such nursing is now effected in
this District through the efforts of
certain charitable women. who support
and direct the efforts of trained nurses.
among their other useful functions, to
the end Just stated
There should, however. be corps OF
free nurses established. Ten nurses at
$500 year, it is thought, would be q
sufficiently large number, making the
expenditures for free nursing of CON
sumptives in their own homes about
5000 = year
Hospital accommodations should be
provided for consunptives who are in
the advanced stages of the disease and
for whom no hope of recovery can be
entertained. This is necessary not only
as an ordinary act of huma nifty with re-
spect 10 the consumptive, but Is neces-
sary for the purpose of removing from
the homes OF such persons living foci
of infection. The patient In his last
stages, especially the ignorant and the
poor patient, may not be able, even
though he may be willing, to properIv
care for the sputum which he raises.
The accommodations for patients of this
kind are quite apart from the accommo-
dations required for patients for whom
there is hope of recovery The cost of
maintaining such patients in consider
able numbers. If provided by the State.
would not be excessive. The cost ot
their care and treatment, II each indi-
vidual is left to his own efforts, IS con-
sidera BILE
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AL Cases Should Be Reported.

1t has long been the wish of some
doctors IN the District that every case
of consumption be reported at the
Health Office on the ground that X
would help greatly in the care of the
patients themselves, and in the safe
guarding of the rest OF the community
So far, however, nothing has been done.
Undoubtedly it would be difficult to OBJ
tain a complete record OF tuberculosis
cases here even if the law required that
a report of all cases be made Few
men care 20 admit even 10 themselves
that they were afflicted with the disease.
Those who were IL the first stages and
who had perhaps several years of acti.e
life before them would feel that the
announcement of their affliction would
perhaps lose them their positions. would
separate them from their friends Then,
too, many cases develop so slowly that
for 81 long time the presence of the
fatal germ is not known.
Preveptable diseases may be divided
into two classes; those which depend for
their spread upon contact, direct or in
direct. between patient and prospective
patient. and those which depend upon
noxious bu: preventable condition in the
environment Of the prospective patient.
As Ii .ype OF the first class may be men
toned smallpox: as Il type of the second
rnay be mentioned diarrhoeaI diseases Of
infancy. The prevention OF any disease
depends upon knowledge of the factor or
factors from which 1t arises; not neces-
sar!.y upon a knowledge of the germ
which causes 4, for the nlicro-organism
which give rise TO smallpox and certain
other communicable diseases are as yet
unknown. but upon knowledge of the
general factors entering into its causa-
tion
Contrary to what might be expected,
the rnilder of communicable diseases
are so far as the community is con-
cerned, the most dangerous. A person
who IS taken suddenly sick with a Sc
we're attack of smallpox, scarlet. fever,
diphtheria. or typhoid fever usually finds
i. necessary to go 10 bed from the start
and the patient and the attending ply
sician have no difficulty in recognizing
the nature OF the Enaiady. and in adopt
ing measures which tend more or less
efrectually TO prevent the spread Of the
disea Sc. The person who has a mild at
tack of any Of the diseases named may
continue at his work or al school. and
may. in fact, keep up all OF his usual
social relations during the entire course
of the malady without either the patient
or his friends ever knowing the nature
of his Illness.
The nght against it should begin in
the schools. In fact the schools should
be made not only n place in which TO
acquire book learning, but also the
knowledge OF how to care for ones
body and 90 take the common sense
precautions against disease. Is it not
more important that a boy or girl
should know how to avoid becoming
The Washington times., 1905-07-09

4 consumptive than to bound Assyria
or TO locate Kamchatka? School chill
dren, it is said, are already overburden-
ed with lessons and there is n constant
cry for a more scientific injectment of
in spite of the tremen-
dous amount of work which is done
by the German boys. and girls at school,
and, who are perhaps the best educated
and among the most healthy in the
world II it be true that American bcys
and girls have as much as they can
stand in the line of lessons. would il
not De a good plan to eliminate some
of their geography and their higher
mathematics in order that they might
learn to protect themselves against
disease2 If tfis were done there would
be no need of an increase in the outlay
for the schools.
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
A hospita, Easily Established.

built and operated on a part of the
site already selected for the Municipal
Hospital, and which Is now lying unused
except for the city gardens at Bright
wood The cost of operating this hos
pital, including the feeding and nursing
of the patients, would not exceed 80, 600
a year.
a sanitarium for those patients in the
early stages of consumption which
would accommodate from eighty 10 one
hundred patients could be built for
s3o, 600. The expenses would probably be
about 81 day for each inmate.
The Governm ent should not ONLY IA
cilitate the early recognition Of con-
sumption by providing for the free ex-
animation of the sputa and for the pre-
The Washington times., 1905-07-09

Is $4,000, 900 for health worth more
than $50, 600, coo for disease and death
/ to the citizens of Washington? Is
the city willing to lay such vast
sum at long odds with death in order to
win in the end?
Even an American city pauses before
spending sl0oc0,0Go. It is a large sum.
Bu- 1t has been approXimated that By
the expenditure of that amount during
ten years disease which reaps a grim
harvest in the Nations Capital every
year may be reduced to minimum
may become as rare as is yellow fever in
the city of Havana today, where a few
years ago the disease had q strong foot
hold. Disease and 6eath due to disease
cost Washington in the neighborhood of
So. 600, coo a year. To establish the proper
measures for prevention of the spread
OF disease and to put on a firm footing
SUCH institutions as are deemed neces-
sary for the cure of the diseased would
cost the city upward of s.. 7.oo0, 600 for the
hrst year. The expense OF maintaining
these institutions during the following
years would be comparatively small in
the years Immediately following-prob-
ably not more than $2500o0 a year.
Therefore in decade the citizens of
s5e. 600 by the expenditure of s1O,-
900 O0o.
The old saw has il that an ounce of
prevention is worth pound of cure.
Surely on the same principle it would be
better for the city of Washington to
spend voluntarily $1,000 600 to prevent
the loss of s5.0eo.0Go. From a purely
nlercenary standpoint such measure
would certainly commend itself to the
hard-headed American business. man.
From the standpoint of the man who
cares for his fellow beings, even though
they he Tom. Dick. and Harry, the blot
ting out of So. Geo worth of suffering
and of sorrow untold would make such
undertaking worth while a hundred
times OYER.
the figures which are given in the
tables Of disease for the District OF
Columbia are nearly al of them taken
from the records of the Health Depart
ment and as such can be relied upon as
accurate statements OF actual coadi-
tfons existing here. With the excep-
ton Of the number OF deaths due 10
malarisl levers, however, the figures
on malaria are arbitrary, the Health
Office keeping no record OF all the cases
in Washington. The same may be said
of the statistics of consumption though
knowing the number of deaths that oc-
cur each year and in view of the fact
that three years is good average
dura tion for the cases with practically
no cures. it is comparatively easy TO
make an accurate estimate of the num-
Der of cases to De found here.
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
The Need of Laboratory Work

The examination Of sputa could be
made In the laboratory of the new
Municipal building. The expense neces-
Stated would amount in round numbers
10 $1,000 a year. This would include the
salary of bacteriologist, 81 500 that of
an assistant, $500: the printing, the
chemicals, and other materials
The prevention of the spread of tuber-
culosis through infected animals could
be insured by rigid inspection of all
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
Cases of Disease Reported and Duration
of Quarantine During the Year

[Consumpon malaria reported: estimatedI
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
Free Nursing a Large Factor.

Nursing in the home Of the consum D
tive IS the practicable and present rem
edy. 1t requires no expensive hospital
or sanitarium, and is Immediately
available. Such nursing enables The
sanitary authority 10 keep in touch with
the consumptive in helpful way, 20
see that the patient receives what is
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
Deaths From Disease During the Year 1904.

vention of the spread Of the disease by
providing nurses and hospital and sani
tarium accommodations but 1t should
also be ready to disinfoct all premises
which have been occupied by consump-
uves, whether such consumptives be
deceased or not Whether the danger
from such premises be great or little,
II should be removed, and this can only
be done effectively by Government
The Washington times., 1905-07-09

already well cared Ger by the city gov
ernment About 1900 is expended each
year and it is said raat the field is well
covered.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-19
MASS OF Sores
Awful Suffering Of Little Boy
from an itching Rum0ur
CURED BY CUTlCURA
Not One Square Inch Of Skin on
His Whole Body Unaffected

"My little son, hoy of five, broke
out with all itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could notdrcss
him any more. They finally advised
me TO try n certain medical college,
but its trcatmcntd did no good. AT the
time I was induced to try Cuticura
he was SO bad that 1 had TO cut his
hair off and put the Cuticura Oint-
inent on him on bandages, as it was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass of sores.
The bandages used TO stick to his skin
and in removing them it used TO take
the skin off with them, and the screams
from the poor child were heart-brcak.
ing. l began TO think that he would
never get we'll, but after the second
application of Cuticura Ointment 1
began to see signs of improvement,
and with the third and fourth appli-
cations the sores commenced to dry
up. His skin peeled off twenty times,
but ii finally yielded to the treatment.
Now L q say that lie is entirely
cured, and n stronger and healthier
boy you saw than he is to-day"
ROBERT WATTAM, 1922 Center
Ave, Chicago. ILL.,, Dec. 80, 1897.
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Dixie Steam
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-19
MAN WHO HANGED
FAMOUS QUARTET
Dill Presided When Lincoln conspi-
rators Were Swung to
Eternity.

MANSFIELD, Nov. ~17.-General
Thomas II. Dill, a trustee of the San.
dusky Soldiers home since 1886. when
it was opened for the reception of in
mates, died in his home in this city
last week after having been in ill
health for many months. General
Dill was born in Wayne county. 1912.
INT served five years in the United
States army. beginning with the
breaking out of the Civil war, respond
ing to President Lincoln's first call
for troops.
General Dill had charge of the
troops in charge of the execution in
the old prison yard at Washington, D.
e, July ,, 1865, of Mrs. Mary Suratt.
Daniel e. Herrold. George A. AItze-
roth and Lewis Powell conspirators
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-19
BACK GIVES OUT.
flenty of Newport News Readers
Have This Experience.

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Newport News people tell you how
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Mrs. H.. n. Smith, wife of II. N.
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ing some ilattering statements in
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made up oar minds TO take a course
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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-19
BUCKINGHAM
Water

Prescribed by leading physicians.
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with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin
of President Lincoln. Dill had to
make three details from the men I'M
der him before he could get soldiers
to cut down the body of Mrs. Surratt,
the men being loath to have anything
to do personally in the execution OF
the woman.
Dill was also present at the placing
OF John Wilkes Booths body under
the floor of. the old arsenal building
at Washington. Later the body, was
taken out and taken to the Booth fam.
lily lot.
General Dill was elected clerk of the
courts OF Richland county in 1878 and
iater reelected.
IN 1886 he was appointed Il trustee
OF the Soldiers home at Sandusky.
He was assistant adjutant general OF
Ohio during Governor Hoadley's adj
ministration. Il i'll 1890 was again
assistant adjutant general under Gov.
ernor Campbell. In 1891 he was made
a%djutant general and served in that
capacity during Inc rest OF Governor
~CampbclFs administration. General
Dill was captain of Company b of the
Seventeenth o. n. G., and rs aid-de.
camp on the staff Of the national com
mander of thc>G. \. X. lie is sur
vived by his widow, and one son and
one daughter.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-19
THE PEOPLE ALL
IN Chorus Cried, Give lis
Herpicide.


Ihis word of lato has been in eyery-
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BROS HERPICIDE does the worn.
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9end loc. in stamps for sample to The
iterpicide Co., Detroit. Mich.
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SIX YEARS LATER
FIr. Wattam writes

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The above account of the Union Pa
cifc automobile car will be of especial
interest to the readers of The Daily
Press as it is understood the promot-
ers OF the railways to Yorktown. both
from Newport News and from Hamp-
ton, are seriously considering the use
Of such cars on the proposed lines.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-19

Ii would he lots of fun 10 some peo.
pic TO have everybody else misera
bic.