Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-02
WHITE PLAGUE IN STATE
Startling Stalemalls Made al Con.
ference Of Virginia Doctors.
$4,000 PEOPLE AFFLICTED NOW
Annual Death Rate From Tuberoulo-
sis Nearly 1900. with Nothing Done
To Relieve victlms-charlty, Lesls-
lation and Education Needed.

JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION, VA.
Nov. with the astounding an
nouncement that $4,000 people of Vir-
g!nia are victims today of the white
plague--a disease which incomplete
figures show is killing them at the
rate of 1000 II year-Dr. Charles r..
Candy, of Norfolk. in n report read
before the Conference of Charities
and Corrections, nailed this crime
suuarcly upon the door of the State:
Virginia ana its cities and counties
are really spreading consumption
through the agency OF the jails, aims.
houses and other institutions, whose
inmates, after being infected, 70 home
10 spread tho disease among their
families and friends A more crimi.
nal procedure on the part OF our au-
thofities can scarcely be imagined"
Called off In an ordinary tone of
voice. the statement did not create
the least show of surprise. without
attempting to alarm the Common
wealth, Or. Grandy's purpose was TO
urge the Importance OF new legisla-
tion by which tuberculosis wards can
be provided in the penal and charlta-
Bile institutions for the separation of
afflicted patients.
Die by the Thousands.
Though his mortality estimate was
more conservative, DR.. j. II. Harris,
OF Berrybllle, declared that more PEG.
pie arc dying In Virginia from con
sumption than from smallpox, diph.
therin. and scarlet fever combined.
DR.. John S. Fulton, secretary of the
international Congress on Tuberculo.
SIS went further than the others, how.
ever, ior he ran the whole gamut OF
Things that Kill and named score OF
diseases, the combined death rate of
which. he said, was less than that of
tuberculosis. He even included sui
eide and railroad accidents.
Problem Faces the State.
How to alleviate tho suffering or
the thousands, wandering now on the
brink of the grave, is the problem
which the conference and the physi.
clans are endeavoring to solve. They
admit that It must be done by edu.
cation and charity, the former Inv mo
people themselves and the latter nv
me state The formation OF n state
association has been suggested. main.
~ Tor the reason that it may lend
pubic sentiment to the point of fore.
ing the Legislature to net. II woq
nude clear In the. able discussion. Of
inc subject and by searching in.
Vestigation as we'll. that a large mn.
lority of the victims arc practicnliv
hampers, 1t was shown. however
mat prompt and substantial helm
from the Legislature in CARRYING on
ne man proposed by Or. Grandv
would heal the sick and make tho
weak-lunged army sound. ~
Need Education says Lew
AS an evidence of the foct nat
education is n prime essential in tho
crusade, Chief Health Officer Iavv
OF Richmond. called to MIND case
Wh'ch happened here less thar n
month ago. lie said that the efforts
OF DR.. Parker to establish n tubercu.
losls hospital in the second story of
his home failed because of whirl.
wind of opposition from citizens re-
siding nearby. Some of the objections
made by the neighbors were absurd.
Or. Levy said. and the convention
caught the drift of his meaning when