Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-03-09

In the world. IN saying the latter
mean that 1t causes most deaths
Therefore. few words about it's
effects In other countries and what
they have done to combat It, may not
be out of place in this country
which. though possessing climate
with natural tendencies to It's Crca.
tion.and development has only begun
to taste of the Indebtedness with
which It is associated.
Man and all animals are exposed
to, and die OF tuberculosis. II is
40 common In man that II is next to.
impossible to find human being
Tree from phthisis at 40 years of age,
And this Is as remarkable as IL Is
true-having been proven, beyond
doubt, by noted German, French and
English scientists, in autopsies made
on thousands of persons who had
died in hospitals.
II Is a well-proven fact that In En-
gland and the Continent men and
women in comparatively early life
are rarely found free from extensive
tubercular LESSONS and yet the death
tate directly from IT, is relatively
low.
Tuberculosis Is Just as common In
cattle. and In Australia the health
authorities are so particular that the
exact number of cases found in cat
tie slaughtered for consumption II
known. In striking an average Of
cattle affected in Australia, England
and the continent of Europe, from
10 per cent. to so per cent. is well
within the limit.
In Australia, out Of $4,000 fats
gent to market for consumption $50
and yet they were examined by eX-
pcrts before sending to market -
when no ocular symptoms presented
themselves to show that any were
ruffcring from tuberculosis.
BY this you will see that cattle
may have extensive tubercular le-
sions and yet fatten.
Tuberculosis IL much more COM
mon In milch cows than In bullocks
and . Is much more frequent In
crowded COW sheds than where only
n few animals are housed. In horses.
goats and sheep II Is very rarely
seen, but Is common In poultry.
A serious responsibility rests on
the shoulders of medical men and
others whose duty II is to protect the
evolution Of man and our future gen.
Crations.
There is no reliable testimony OF
the treatment or even existence of
tuberculosis until the 18th century,
when leading physicians and veteri-
narians, greatest among them Laen-
lee lFranceD, were able to give data
sufficiently reliable to demonstrate
that tuberculosis was quite a recent
disease.
Veterinary statistics are the most
reliable in this respect, for according
to the eminent French scientist No
card there were entire provinces IN
France that were free from tubercu'
losis up to the middle OF last cen
Jury where today they contain from
20 to so per cont. OF tubercular cat
tie.
\ Bang one of the greatest Of cx'
pertj In BORNE tuberculosis. declares
that the disease WAS found In cattle
imported. into Denmark from Ger
many in 1870 and again In short
horns imported little later from
England and with these the diseas,
spread rapidly and today 80 per cent
of cattle In DennVrk are tuberculal
rnd so the disease has spread witt
hurricane speed until today we fine
II In every country In Europe, In ia
pan, Australia. Canada, Cni'c,
States, Egypt, Argentine, Chill. MAJ
and every domesticated animal arr
culosis. For the past 80 years sci
cntists have put forth all their ener
giles and millions OF dollars are an
nually expended In an endeavor 4
mon duty of every man and woman
To assist those In authority who ar
battling with It,
It would be impossible to review
all the gigantic operations against II
Yet no means has been discovered L
either cure or prevent phthisis. !
is SO widespread that the co-opera
ton of every one is necessary to min
: imize It's degenerating effects.
The lnfectiousness of tuberculosi
was n much discussed question 70
years-some eminent men contend
ing II was, others that II was not
some asserted that IL was transmit
ted only by heredity. And there
sound reasoning in the latter, for
Is essential that man be predis
posed to II TO become tubcrculous
Generally we find the children of IN
berculous parents in this condition
To advance even one stage, II wa
necessary 10 find out what propaga
'. ted II. This point has been set