The sun., 1908-12-14
WORKERS and CONSUMPTION
o.. u. ATTENDS THE TUBER-
fs CULOSLS EXHIBIT.

~. Huber Talks OF the Work Already
Donc In Checking the Disease AicO-
hel PPedlspOSea to the MIalady-Nhat
the Printers Have Done In the Fght.
There was another great crowd yes
lerday. at the tuberculosis exhibit In
the Museum Of Natural History. though
not 90, large as on the preceding Sunday.
il tho middle Of the storm thousands
cf persons began TO pour into the museum
and II required the efforts Of all the police
men IN the place TO keep the corridors
Niear. Up to about 3/o'clook or half an
hour later the demonstrations were kept
up. but after that the. crowd became so
dense and the people arrived In such
numbers that they were abandoned.
Or. Van Ingen, who has charge Of the
demonstrations, said that he vas sur
pfised 70 see such large attendance on
such day. ''
AT between and half past o. clock. .
be said, Ait was found necessary to
abandon the demonstrations. We did
not anticipate such crowds. There were
probably little more than 27o00 people
here to-day, as against over 4s.Ooo-odd
crowd when the weather conditions were
"a bad
The public meeting in the assembly
hall under the auspices OF the Central
Federated Union and the programme
committee of the exhibit, which began
at Q p. NJ, was avery large one. every
part OF the assembly hall being flied.
One-half Of the audience was made up
Of wokDeIi. Chairman William A. Coax
ley of tho c, F. o.. who presided. made
Q brief address
The principal speech was made by DIR.
John 3. Huber. professor of pulmonary
diseases at Fordham University Medical
School. who gave an address on "Tuber-
culosis and the Workingman. DR.. Huber
expressed regret that DR.. Alfred Meyer.
chairman Of the New York committee
Of the international tuberculosis Con-
gress, who was to be one of the speak
ers, was unable TO attend. DIR. Huber
said that few people realized that tuber-
cuIosis had carried away far more vic
Tins than the great scourges Of history.
eStatisfics have shown he said, that |
It's ravaRes are worst between the ages |
Of Is and IS years. That is the time when |
human activity mentally and physically |
ought TO be at it's best If these people |
marry with the germs of consumption |
In their frames it is bad for succeeding /
generations. 1t has now been founu |
that people can recover from consump- |
tion and that many valuable lives can
be saved by attacking the disease at its
early stages.
aPasteur. Kooh and others who dis
covered the germ theory OF tuberculosis
and developed it," he continued, Ilaid
the foundation for the cure of the dis
ease. Their labors have been intelli-
gently supplemented by others who con-
duued the researches and established
the fact that consumption was not only
preventable but durable in its early stages.
The labor unions can render great assist
nrce init Geological phase of the ques-
ton by agitating for sanitary workshops
and clean tAnements. 1t has been shown
without doubt that alcoholism particu-
larly predisposes people to tuberculosis.
Men working under poor conditions. earn
ing low wages and with little to cheer
them in life are liable TO become alcoholic
victims under conditions when their en-
foebled frames render them an easy prey
20 tho disease. The East Side Is still
ia sections the most thickly populated
part OF the world, not even excepting
Bombay and other cities OF the Old World.S
DR.. Huber then impressed on the audi
once the necessity OF attending 70 all the
sanitary laws laid down by the Board
Of Health he said that there were still
between 200.Oo and 30O, 600 dark sleeping
rooms in New York. Light and fresh
ar were the greatest foes OF tuberculosis.
He paid high tribute to the Tenement
House Commission andJ said that the
Improved tenements and the work OF tue
were n hulwark against the
disease, He urged the unions strongly
70 aid the Tenement House Commission
IN seeing that the laws which they had
brought about were strictly enforced.
The fight against tuberculosis is well
under way and is making splendid head
Eay.s he said. People who have given
he subject a study believe that IL the
aRht against it continues to progress as
L IL doing the White Plague will be little
more than a ghastly memory. like small
nox and other diseases, which have been
wiped out. within thirty
r9Afa. .
The last speaker was j L. Cahill chair
nan OF the tuberculosis COMMITTEES OF
Union No. 0. whose sub
eqt was The Trade Union as Committee
% the Prevention of Tuberculosis. lie
Efye number OF statistics as TO the work
lone at the printers Banitarium under
h6 auspices of the international Typo
graphicai Union at Colorado Springs.
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