The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-09-10

the journal OF the American Med1-
cal association. the official paper of
the official organization of physicians
of this country, issue of July 1, 1905:
In the last few years the belief
has prevailed that tubercu1ar infec-
ton is all but universal and that, in
civilized countries at least, practically
no one escapes without a smack of
consumption" The German saying,
Sci" we'll expresses the genera feel
ing. The recent strengthening of this
more or less widely held popular opin-
ion has been due principally to the
work of Naegeli and Franz.
Nageli in a series of several hun
dred minute postmortem examina
tons at the Pathological institute in
Zurich found LESSONS regarded by him
as tuberculosis in owe 81 per cent of
the bodies of adults. Subsequently
Burkhardt announced very similar re-
suits obtained by him from material
examined at h Dresden Pathological
The much quoted work of
Franz on the application of the tu-
berculin test to apparently healthy
Austrian soldiers showed that a posi-
tive reaction was obtained in over 60
per cent of the number examined"
AS for the frequency of tuberculosis
in the schoolroom, I quote again from
the Journal of the American Medical
association of April 7, 1906, as fol-
lows:
"The fact that tuberculosis is fire.
quently spread in places where large
bodies Of people are gathered is too
well known to require much empha-
sis. Scholars are undoubtedly promi-
nent in disseminating consumption,
and consequently school buildings
should always be as well ventilated
as @pGssIb he There Iha is at all times a
disease among choo1 children. The
medical officer of Blackburn, Lanca
shire, England, in a recent report
stated that nearly 10 per cent of the
children aya mined in Snmo Of the
schools had pulmonary consumption.
In the Paris schools the state of af-
fairs in this respect was even worse,
the figures being from II to IL per
cent among boys. and from II to 20
per cent among girls. At the Inter-
national tuberculosis congress held in
Paris last year the statement was
made that one of the most fruitful
sources of consumption among school
children was the Use of school build
ings by adults for public meetings.
room require plentiful ventilation.
and that if they be filed with people
in the evening, as we'll as in the lay
time. that this desideratum is impos-
sible of attainment. Public meetings
should not be permitted in school
buildings except in rare cases, and
that in order to lessen the dangers af-
ter such meetings the schoolroom
should be washed with a weak solu-
ton of forma1dehyd."
tuberculosis can develop In any
part of the body. The tubercule baci1-
luS apparently finds a more congenial
culture medium in some parts of the
body than others. The lungs seem to
be a place of predictions; the lynn
phatic glands and Serious membranes
are favorable media; the bones and
organ of the abdomen quite often are
the places of the beginning; the kin
and mucous membrane may be the
seat of growth. There are many
common diseases well known to the
nooD1n which ORC IIhnrnI1In11C al
travel under other names; the real
character of these diseases is never
suspected. ScrofuIa almost always
is due to tuberc1e bacilli in the lynn
phatic glands: lupus is simply tuber-
culosis of the skin: white swelling is
tuberculosis of the bone; spine dis
ease is tuberculosis of the vertebrae;
hip Joint disease is tuberculosis of the
head of the thigh bone: fistu1a in
most cases is tuberculosis of the peri
neum: water on the brain is tubercu-
losis of the Serious membrane lining
the brain; marasmus is tuberculosis
of the Emphatic glands of the mesen-
terry.
Terrible as tuberculosis looks when
arrayed under all its aliases, its in
jury to the human family can by no
means be measured by its direct raw
ages. It's indirect damage to man
kind is ever possibly greater thar It's
direct. Our insane asylums, homes
of refuge. reformatories, prisons and
penitentiaries shelter the indirect re-
suits of tuberculosis.
The Available Weapons.
How are the teachers and scholars
to be protected from tuberculosis in
the school room? Under existing cir
cumstances I think it is impossible for
YOU to have adequate protection But
I will mention some things, which if
practiced. will mitigate your danger
to some extent.
First. keep your general health at
the highest possible mark by eating
plenty of good food. sleeping in well
ventilated rooms. and taking plenty
of sleep Have colds, catarrh and
slight ailments attended to promptly.
Get out of the school room every
minute. or half minute possible.
Keep the school room well ventilated.
Have the floors mopped daily; swept
never.
like eating breakfast, take a pint of
milk with you and drink it during
recess. Dc not give way to lack of
appetite. One of the first and most
persistent symptoms of tuberculosis
is loss of appetite, a loathing of food.
especially of the more nurishing foods
such as milk, butter. eggs and meat
q symptom often presents years
before any cough occurs.
Have A separate nail for the wraps
of each pupil. Have the name on
the nail. and see hat their wraps are
always on the right nail. See to it
floor.
If 2 scholar coughs or shifts or
keeps his mouth open, send a note to
or see the parents. A child who is
u mouth breather, who sits in school
constantly with lips parted. is most
likely to be tu~bercu1ar. or he has his
most nasal pharynx corked up with
tonsils and denoid growths, and is
in the best way to become tubercular.
Tell that child to keep his lips closed
and look at him a minute later.
and his month will be open again. He
will he dull and slender and poorly
nourished. Advise the parents to
see the family physician and he will
clean out those growths, and likely
save the child from tuberculosis by
enabling him to breathe properly.
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