The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-09-10
A TIMELY TALK By DIR. w. G..
HOPE BEFORE INSTITUTE

HOPE BEFORE INSTITUTE
OF Public Schoo Teachers Now i'm Ses-
sion at the High SchooI-Some
Facts That All Should Know.
Yesterdays session of the city
teachers institute was, If anything.
more interesting than that of the
day before. The of visitors
throughout was valuable to teachers
and visitors alike, says the Morning
Journal.
DIR. Hopes Address.
The feature of yesterdays session
of the institute was a paper by DR..
w. G. Hope, of Albuquerque, dealing
with tuberculosis, it's prevalence and
prevention, with especial reference to
the problems the teacher encounters
in dealing with the disease in the
is valuable not only to teachers but
to everyone else who in one way or
another has this problem to meet. 1t
follows in full:
Clark has asked me to talk to you
on some subject pertaining to hygiene
in the school room. l have chosen
ton to Our schools"
The little while that I will talk to
you, 1 shall go into no ex-
PLANTATION of the pathology of tubers
culosis; nor of its comparative n
cence till it's forms the acquaintance
of and business partnership with
stapholococeus and stnaptococeus.
All this you can get from any text
book by an hours reading which your
family physician will give you on re-
quest. I will confine my remarks to
a few general, and I trust practical,
subject that vitality pertain to the
health of yourselves and of your pu-
pills.
In the larger towns of New Mexico,
of all public meeting rooms, presents
some peculiar and hard problems.
The southwest is becoming rapidly
the tuberculosis sanitarium of the
United states and Canada. The lar
ger towns are getting most of the in
valids. Nineteen put of twenty of
these health-seekers nave tuberculosis
in some form, usually pulmonary con-
type of tuberculosis. Comparatively
few of these unfortunates have any
adequate idea of the communicating
and false notions of discretion, the
family physicians in h east have
called their ailments bronchitis, ca
tarrh or some other meaningless
term. He has allowed them to min
gle with their families and friends
Without using any precautions for
their protection. He has frequently
at her breast and to use a common
handkerchief for herself and her
child. He has above the tuberecu-
losis sister to sleep with the healthy
sister; and the tuberculosis brother
to sleep with the healthy brother.
with the result that by the time the
member of the family who was first
stricken gets to the southwest, two or
/ ~ - rnnpohorc of the fqmJ1u rn in
fected.
Even at this late date, the chances
are that the invalid consults some To-
cal physician for stomach trouble'
or "sore throat" or a little bronchi-
It's after having tried the climate for
three or four ont without any To-
something Xix the following takes
place between the patient and physi-
clan:
THE patient in a hoarse whisper:
"a little throat trouble and I have
been advised to see you"
Physician-"How long have you
been ILL.,"
Patient-"Two or three months"
Physician-"Perfect health until
two or three months ago?"
Patient-"No; not we'll for a year
or So"
Physieian-,"How much is the nos
Patient-"one hundred and eighty
pounds"
Physician-"What do you weigh
now?"
Patient-"One undred and forty
pounds"
Physician-"when did you weigh
one hundred and eighty pounds?"
Patient-"Not for five years"
Physician-"Any cough during
those five years?"
Patfent-"A little bronchial cough
mornings"
The physician examines. and finds
an advanced stage of general tubercu-
losis. On further inquiry, the physf-
clan ascertains hat the patient has
no precautions to protect his family
and the community from infection.
Frequently when he tells you that he
has been told by physicians that he
he knows that the disease is cOntag-
ious. he will answer. "I have heard
So or "some people think so. but I
don't believe much in it." or some
thing to that effect.
The local physician will explain pa
tientlv to h patient the necessity for
s~crupulous care to prevent the fur
Their infection of himself and family.
which is printed minute prophy1actic
instructions. All this time the pa
tient will look disguised. and posi-
bly, when he leaves the office, will
leave the Ieaf1et on his chair.
You teachers in our public schools
are shut up in more or less close
school rooms five hours a day. five
days in each week for almost nine
months in each year. with children
who come from these infected homes.
The wrap that hangs on the same nail
with your wrap, last night possibly
wrapped the sick sister or mother.
is one side of the picture.
Now I will say there is a brighter
side to it. Occasionally we will go
into a home-ves. with increasing
frequency of late. we will say
where all the rules of hygiene and
knowledge of the prevention Of the
dread plague are practiced Intelligent
iy and c~onscientiously. IT II he the
mother that is stricken. the infant is
not on her Ian. kissing her and chew
ing her handkerchief. None of the
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