Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-08
B ,rton Physician Looks For
Success of Vaccination Theo-
ny in tuberculosis
IMMUNITY HELD POSSIBLE
tuberculosis Association Told That
Most Common Source Of Disease is
House contasion New Depart
ment Of Government Proposed, With
Or. Wiley as it's Chief.


DR.. Charles Hunter Dunn of Boston in
his address before the National Asso-
citation for the Study and Prevention
Of Tuberculosis yesterday. DIR. Dunn
reviewed the progress made in; that d.
rectien, and said he believed that hui
man beings We're in a pretty good
state of natural resistance, and hoped
for the discovery of a Vaccine that
would make that resistance absolute.
DR.. Dunn's subject was Recent Ad-
vances in the knowledge of Tubercu-
losis in Children" and was presented
before the children's section, He said
that the frequency of tuberculosis in
early life increases from month to
month and year to year, but that in the
cases in which 1t was found as the
cause of death 1t decreased from year
to year. In early life tuberculosis did
not affect the lungs as it did in the case
of the adult, but frequently remained
hidden in the internal glands in chill
dren until an acute form of tubercula.
meningitis or pneumonia caused death
While there was truth in the theories
that the diseased was congenital and
also due to dust or moist sputum, he
said the commonest Source was house
contagion from tubercular surround
ings In the order of frequency, he
said, tuberculosis entered the body thru
the lungs, thru the intestines or thru
the tonsils and the pharynx. In di-
agnosing latent forms of the disease, he
said that the X-rays was the most i'm
portant means of discovering it,,
Dr. Henry L. K. Shaw of Albany, N.
Y, argued that the usual method of
acquiring the disease was thru the con-
tagion of man to man and not thru
milk and other foods.
DIR. Samuel S. Adams Of this city
took the ground that children are sub
ject to tuberculosis the same as adults,
and that, altho the opportunities for
infection are great, nevertheless, chill
dren should he considered as sources
of Infection.
Plans for the international congress
on tuberculosis to be held in Wash
sington in 1908 were described by DR..
Lawrence F. Flick. The congress will
be in session for three weeks, one of
which will be devoted to scientific work
in Washington. apd two weeks to the
entertainment Of guests and the in(
sspection OF institutions turnout the
country There is to be an exhibit
in Washington during this time which
will give an objective demonstration OF
everything that can be Of interest in
80, ste hrr world and a
course of lectures by prominent work
.ers from tall countries outside of the
United States. The plan calls for q
fund of 100000, to be subscribed by
twenty men, for betrayal Of expenses
OF the congress and the award of prizes
in the interest of the crusade against
tuberculosis. Thirty thousand dollars
Of the fund has been paid in The
fund is to be used exclusively for the
scientific part of the congress.
Dr.. Flick said: "The exhibit will be
a complete pathological and BAG
Pathological picture of, what tuberculosis
means to man. 1t will show the raw
ages of the disease upon man. animals,
birds and fishes. 1t will show the cycle
of life of the tubercle bacillus with all
its products: the method Of growth OF
the Heterogeneous; the changes which
they produce on the substances on
which they grow and the restrictions
upon their growth and development in
nature. The exhibit will show the wide
spread operation OF tuberculosis in ev-i
cry. part of the world, and what the
crusade against it has so far accom-
plished and what it may accomplish in
the future. It will present models OF
hospitals for consumptives, sanatoria,
dispensaries, day camps, convalescent
farms, consumptive colonies. consump-
tive classes and will show the benefits
which may be derived from these
mea sures.'
So far the committee has announced
one prize, namely, of $1,000 for the. best
evidence of efficient work done by any
volunteer organization since the last