The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-08-11
Prevention as
GUre for WDite Plague
By DR.. A. n. SCHNEIDER,
Tuberculosis Specialist.

IS lowered by illness OF physiological changes or vicious habits. Such
children should be PIT through a course OF training tending to reinforce
thc usually faulty and inadequate nutruive processes and deficient respr-
atory capacity. Special attention should be given to bathing and outdoor
exercises, and the harmful effect Of tobacco and alcohol and other vicious
habus should be carefully explained.
Laws contemplating the prevention Of marriage of consumpdyc
individuals seem unnecessary. Under intelligent and careful sanitary
regulations i. is possible TO live with consumptve individuals without
contracting the disease. The disease itself is seldom directly transmitted
80 offspring.
Children OF ubcrculous parents who die of tuberculosis have usauuy
bccn infected by the spuum from their parents. The vast majority Of
all cases Of tuberculosis are due to the breathing in OF the germs OF the
disease, which come from the dried and powdered sputuln floating about
in The air ri our streets and public places,
Municipal supervision and control of the ignorant and irresponsible
or INDECENT co]nsumpdye is recommended, for in the families of the very
poor or vicious the effective or intelligent application of preventive
measures caa hardly be hoped for. The iucurablc cases should be con
anci N a special hospital for c~onsumptvcs, while the durable cases should
nc cared for in special sanatoria until recovery is assurcd, Among the
intelligent and wclltodo preventive measures can be successfully carried
out in the home,
The many instances OF the occerance OF a number OF deaths from
consumption in the same family arc proof Of direct infection due to care
LcssncsS, rather than to hereditary transmission Of the disease. A CON
snnptves personal possessions should be DESTROYED rather than disrib-
uicd among his family and friends. The wall Of the apartments vacated
by The consumr,Nc, saohl be thoroughly scrapcd and scrubbsd and re-
decorated All furniture Should be thoroughly scrubbed. The tapes
rric, carpets and bedding should be steam cleaned, Unccanabe articles
should he burned,
Splitting on floors and sidewalks should be prevented, and munich
paHles viii find money expended for antscpic c~uspidors placed in pub
Sic buildings and street cars, and at regular intervals on all thoroughfarcs
a wise investment. The public capdors should be as common as mail
boxes, aud would occasion little comment if spiters OF tobacco iuce, as
well as spjtcrs of mbcrcuous spmuu were obliged to use them.
Children should rot be allowed to buy candy or fruit at street stands
and III fruits and vegetables bought from exposed stands Or wagons in
tho city streets should be very carefully cleaned and cooked.
Especial attention sdoaid he paid to the cleansing and thorough
ecntiation OF schools. prowtscuoas kissing Of children by grown people
and by each other, and OF GROWN people BY each other. should be dis
Outraged, So also. the kissing OF things that arc blessed, and il a man
,of sanitary sense refuses to kiss Tie Bible, his motive should not be iris.
understood, The common communion cup should be condemned and
the Substitution Of TIC individual cup enforced by municipal decree
The public Should he acquainted VIII. The necessity for carly atcn-
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