The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-09-18
URGED TO UNITE TO
FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
Correspondent Wants Manufacturers and
Union Men to Hold a Conference
at an Early Date.


Editor Barre Daily Times; So much
has already been said regarding this
dreaded tuberculosis, both by medical
and lay authorities, that it il with a
small degree OF equanimity that ! wish
to outline some pregnant facts for the
benefit Of yonr readers. Io those III
Won who attended the lecture given By
the tuberculosis commission and who
naturally expected to gain Information
which might help you to allocate 10
all concerned their proportionate share
Of safeguarding the lives Of those en-
gagged in the granite cutting and other
kindred industries, there could have
been nothing but disappointment, and
Ii did not take very long for the work
ing men and women present to discover
that the question Of how to eliminate
the stone dust from the workshops was
not down on the commissions pro.
gramme for discussion. Their talk on
fresh air treatment, consuming the best
of edibes, pullman car rides to Colo
RADIO, how ] inflated my think box"
and increased my chest expansion
sounds all very fine and large 10 those
who can afford such luxury, but TO the
wage worker who has large family
and has TO work year out and year in,
penned in our local -four mills there
4 is only one viewpoint and that carries
him to the west hill ~.
As visitor to Barre recently IT,
marked to a well known manufactures,
~Your industrial appliances are marvel
lous. but where are the old menf
can only see young men at work. +"
Have q cigar" said the boss, and
Wen take walk to the cemetery
Altogether the lecture from the view
point OF a working man was an entire
farce
Dr. Miller in his bright and breezy
letter Of some weeks ago, mentioned
many points which are OF vital interest
to the working men of barre, and hope
the seed he has sown viii not fan on
stony soil. But it is on other lines Of
thought and action that is the main
purposes of these lines. | am of the
opinion that more supervision should
/ be given to the milk and butcher meat
that is sold throughout our city. Pre-.
vention is better than cure. and it is
an undeniable fact that many cases Of
| tuberculosis IN children have been traced
to bovine origin, these primarily from
cows afflicted with tuberculosis OF the
udder. Then, as regards dead meats.
il is extremely necessary that special
supervision be given to our meat stores,
inasmuch as there is a continued sup
ply coming from the west. Burlington
and surrounding farms in Washington
| county and which | have been led to
believe would not Ia many instances
pass muster If proper and competent
! inspection was given same.
To many of you who have the stone
dust problem to contend with, IL seems
manifestly unfair that we should have
also TO line up in battle array tofsup-
port and enforce pure foods system,
/ Speaking from experience, hsve seen
| meats delivered at my home that had
| far more need to be crematcd--not once
hut many times Is it not the duty
Of our board OF health to keep an eye
Of supervision on those entries of milk
and butcher meat? Especially so those
consignments from Burlington and out.
/ lying farms. do not aim AZ any store
keeper or milk distributor in particular
l1 only hope stricter enforcement Of
city ordinances in this direction viii
result in benefit to all concerned, thus
giving us a square deal for onr money in
this whirlwind rush for wealth, so plain
on every hand that even sweet life IT.
self Is carried down in the ever increas.
ing maelstrom.
Returning to the dust problem, much
has been said and much more can be
added, but after all is not The crux Of
the whole question, the elimination Of
/ dust from the sheds in an endeavor To
lessen the fearful mortality which ex.
perts claim is the cause Of the so-called
''stone cutter consumption" II this be
50, let us face the situation like men
/ We have evaded the real issue all these
/ years in our scramble for the almighty
dollar; now when we see that health
i is necessary as we'll a. money (and far
/ more prefcrable), we feel like riskinp
! the loss Of half 4 cent OF such like sum
In an honest endeayor to blot ont for
ever curse that Is strangling the best
1 brains and the hest manhood in ouI
city today. When you realize that the
| lives Of men, women and little children
are al stake in this momentous ques-
tion. 1t does not necessarily follow that