The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-08
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| accordingly Instructed Or. stratton
to mop out his own throat and send
the mop to the city bacter|ologlst.
The next day there came GARD say
Ina the patient was worse! This Is q
only to brlng out the point that doc.
\ tors convey disease as wen as otner
people, and consistency would demand 81
a archaeological examination Of each I
| DOCTORS throat every time he came
In contact With case of dphtherla.
The report also says there were my NY
when in reality tkero.iwcrcii only thirty
four. In addition to every case original
Ing in tho city, they have counted those
brought from elsewhere. Nv We know !, qn sp
number to be correct. The committee
has made q mistake, and their deductions
are necessarily false Is
1 am criticised for saying that the
greater number Of disease come from
this same, report in speaking Of milk,
they say that lack of cleanliness is the
most serious danger" ] cannot discrimi-
gstwefq s Sa # S,s"nGdss a9d
lvcying tho impression that thought
diphthcrta couid7 be co1itractc1 from
| humps, orHtyploid> fevcrcfronl 'ringworm.
lHrhey do mo an Injustice when they say
thatI am welded to the antiquatcd theory
! that filth alone produces disease, but l
do not hesitate to say that clean food,
clean milk and clean clothes. on clean
people make them less susceptible OF dis
ease than those who live In squalOr and
dirt.
Every Safeguard.
There is no doubt that every safeguard.
should DO placed around our, milk sup
ply. meteorological examinations will do
g}sat deal Fl 1924 l hnt ~ nsneetorf
the the ID iairh Il i9S Ia ddAYsrs the mix
pure ana clean to the city. After this
is done, it would be well to disseminate
literature that would make customers +,
that moro sickness is produced from
carelcssncss of people In handling the
milk after they haXe f9 fron i r [r9
contained in It when it was delivered;
but II It be unclean when 1t is sent into
the city and Improperly cared for by
tho consumer the danger Is doubled.
In the past eleven years $500 children
have died under five years OF age .3OS
were white and 1854 were colored
again call attention to the fact that there
are twice as many white people herA as
among the colored number over 100
more than tic white. 1t Is a fact that
the vast majority Of these coored chill
dren do not drink milk except from their
mothers breasts; that they live on fat
meat and poliQuor, and any other food
eaten by thcir parents, but certainly
not on cows milk, so that research must
reveal the germs OF. disease IN other food
products.
Of the nrty-six infants that died of
dlnrrhoeal diseases under one year of
age, Investigation shows the following
figures:
Those fed on condensed mllk.,....., IS
Those fed on cows and matted milk
mixed - cow,;. ,;i, 'o,lon,c'''' =
fnI /
Those fed on both cows and mothers
. milk neutrality-suspicious.. ''.'''''','
tried to make more thorough in
vestigation of tho whole number who
died In this year, but SO many had
moved it was impossible TO do so; J
found, as far as Investigation went, that
very few Of the. colored children who
We're artifclally fed received milk after
they were SIX months Old
There has been n marked decrease IN
infant mortality since tho institution Of
physicians to the poor and the inspection
OF food,
Death Rate.
In the course Of the investigation, Or
rather nquisltion, for physicians and
other were prPbed to give evidence Of
death reto Of Richmond was not TOO
high and might not be lowered. | an
swered that, according to the report
LOT Iiua, ~ lHlBDt ne reduced 10 ~ III
stead OF s3lS In the thousand, Upon
this n great hue and cry arose from tho
committee and tho press over the diff !
ference between Is and 23.l2, which Is
5.l3, and which, according 10 the com
mittee, represents 4i3 Unnecessary deaths.
II the death rate can be reduced to |
Is why not TO $, as in other cities? Why !
grieve ourselves to death over figures |
which can be made 10 tell all kinds of
ics9
II only s or in the thousand die,
according 10 the report OF some clties |
there should he many old people who |
could not live forever, These reports, |
however do not show as many deaths |
past sixty or seventy years Of aGe MS do |
ours. ha.
] shall Try 10 show what the trouble
has really been. Every year. by request. |
We have sent 10 the Census Bureau at |
Washington q complete list OF deaths |
from all causes and without regafd to !
length Of residence Of the decedcuts In |
Richmond. because these people were re- |
corded hose and nowhere else. we have
not excluded nun-residcnts, hospitals |
deaths from violence or accident children
under one week old or the negro pnpu-
latioD. all Of which exceptions are made
by other cities. BESIDES all this, in The
year 1900 our records instead OF being.
sent on by us, were copied by The Census
bureau. and BY mistake the list Of dead
shipped here for burial were counted as
having lived here, | explained this to