Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-26
DR.. KNOPF FIGHTS
WHITE PLAGUE
ExPECT0RATI0N is THE MAIN
INFECTION SOURCE
First Graduate of Los Angeles Med
ical School Is Now Head of
Movement in New
York

"The tuberculosis Problem" will be
the subject of an address given by DR..
| S. A.. Knopf of New York city, under
the auspices of the Los Angeles Anti
| tuberculosis league Tuesday evening at
the Woman's club house.
| DR.. Knopf was the first medical stu
dent to matriculate at the local medi-
cal school, the College of Medicine, U.
| S. c., which was founded twenty-one
! years ago. He attended the local COL
| lege two years, after which he went to
New York, where he graduated from
| Bellevue Medical college. Later he
went to Paris, where he took the de-
| gree of doctor of medicine for the sec
ond time.
| DIR. Knopf was the first inferno at
the Los Angeles county hospital and
| it was there where he became first
| interested in the study of tuberculosis.
He is now director of the clinic for
| pulmonary diseases of the city of New
York, senior attending physician to the
city sanatarium for consumptives and
| consulting physician to various other
! institutions
As Author
| He is the author of various text
| books on tuberculosis. His popular
essay, Tuberculosis as a Disease of
from the German government in a
worldwide competition. This work has
since been translated into twenty diff
| ferent languages.
| DIR. Knopf is also author of mono
graphs on tuberculosis in schools,
prisons, reformatories, etc.
DR.. Knopf is in Los Angeles on a
short visit and will return to New
York shortly after his address
| Whar caap at the AIUa RADIO la ST even
! ing, he said:
1.-THE anti-tuberculoSiS movement is
active in nearly all the states in the
Union, and it seems to me that Los
| Angeles is somewhat behind in it's eff
| forts to stamp out this disease, which
| is preventabe and durable one.
"There exists in the United States Il
| national association for the study and
prevention of tuberculosis. Although
| this society owes it's origin to the medi-
cal profession, it's officers and members
are composed Of lay and medical men.
| DIR. Herman M. BiggS of New York
city is the president, Surgeon General
| Sternberg of Washington, D. c., is
| the treasurer, and DIR. Henry B. Jacobs
of Baltimore Is the secretary. Presi-
dent Roosevelt and former President
Cleveland are honorary vice-presidents.
All States Represented
"All the states of the Union are rep
resented in the board of directors and
| the local anti-tuberculoSiS associations
are in affiliation with the national So
| ciety.
| Los Angeles has an anti-tuberculosis
| league, of which Dr. H. G. Brainerd is
| the president. The league has accom-
plished good work, but it needs the
support of all good and loyal citizens
| of Los Angeles in order to accomplish
| the desired aim, namely, the eradication
of the disease by proper prevention and
| timely cure.
"This prevention can only be OBJ
| tanned by educating the people at large.
the consumptives and those living with
them, regarding the precautions to be
taken to prevent the spread of the dis
ease by careless and indiscriminate ex-
pectoration. which is, after all, the
main source of infection.
"The consumptive poor are often sent
here in the advanced stages of the dis
ease and are occupying the cheap
boarding houses. 1t seems that in Los
Angeles the greatest danger lies here.
"Our local tuberculosis committee of
New York has recently issued cir
cular requesting people not to send
the advanced consumptive poor to Cali
fornia, who invariably become a bur-
den to the community to which they
are sent.
LOS Angeles with it's beautiful cli-
mate, it's wide streets, numerous parks
and it's wealth and intelligence, should
be one of the first cities to show to the
world that with the aid of its wise gov
ernment. its many devoted and expert
physicians and its large and intelligent
population, the great white plague, so
often disease of filth, poverty and
ignorance, can be wiped out.
1T will be my privilege to address
the citizens of Los Angeles on the sub
ject of tuberculosis Tuesday evening,
and / hope to offer a few suggestions
as how best TO attack the problem of
tuberculosis and point out the way, If
possible, to everybody, rich or poor.
young or old, teachers and pupils, the
way of helpfuness i'm the fight against
the great white plague.
"The tuberculosis problem offers a
vast field for practical philanthropy,
and 1 hope after my address there will
be a lively discussion to bring out the
local needs and remedies"