The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-06-12
CAUSED BY milk.
Eight RAiIllon People Doomed to
Be Killed by the
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.

GREAG WHILE GlAQUGo
Costs Over $4,OOO,O00 to Care For
and Bury Victims-League Dis
cusses Action-Anti-Tuberc
Workers in Favor Of Wiping Out
All Infected Cattle,
The Great White Plague seems
likely 10 lose some of it's greatness
as the result of the national conven-
ton Of the American Anti-Tubercu-
losis League which closed at st. Louis
recently. The principal demand Of
the convention was for legislation.
against defective COWS, it being as
serted that about 80 per cent OF the
consumptives in the United States
contract their tuberculosis in raw
milk.
Opposing factions, one advocating
the isolation plan for the treatment
of consumptives and the other defend
ing the present policy of treating the
disease in cities, were in combat at
the closing session. The controversy
assumed the form OF debate, DR..
Walter G.. Tyzzer, superintendent OF
the Mayfield Sanitarium, of St Louis.
representing the isolation advocates,
and DR.. Joseph E. Chambers, presi-
dent of the Hippocratean College of
Medicine, of St. Louis, representing
the other faction. The subject of
the debate was:
Resolved, That tuberculosis can
be more effectively treated in the,
isolated arid regions than in hospi-
tails in cities"
The honors were about even, but
DR.. TyZzer had the more meritorious
side of the argument, apparently, as
the majority of the delegates not
personally interested in some city in
stitution were in his faction.
"Raw Milk" was the title of pa
per submitted by Nathan Straus, the
New York philanthropist. 1t was an
able paper, covering the raw milk
subject thoroughly, and closing with
the following three deductions:
Il. That tuberculosis is apreVent-
able disease.
.'2. That raw milk is the common
cause of tuberculosis.
49, That the peril of tuberculosis
in milk can be absolutely removed by
proper pasteurization."
Ernest J. Lederle, former Com
missioner of Health of New York.
submitted a paper entitled, "Rublic
Milk Supplies, with Special Reference
to the tuberculosis Problem" He
stated that tuberculosis was now very
prevalent among milk cows and in
creasing, and urged legislation aimed
at such cousumptive cows.
C. w. Saleeby, of London, Eng
land, spoke on Potential Homicide,
the Greatest Menace of the Human
Race"
Sterilization, valuable as it is as
final safeguard against tuberculosis,
Is, after all, y said DR.. Donohue, ''only
an eXpedient and must not be put
into so much prominence that the
Of the other safeguard be-
lost sight of. Beyond any question.
the ultimate advantage lies in OBJ
tanning milk from cattle free from
disease. It is a fact comparable
with the advantage of obtaining
drinking water from pure source
instead of taking it from a contami-
mated one and relying upon puriflca-
tion afterwards
DR.. w. II. Mayfield, general secre-
tary and executive officer of the
American Anti-Tuberculosis League,
predicted in his address that ''be-
fore long there will be state and ma
tional laws requiring that inspectors
shall duly examine every cow whose
milk is offered for human use, and
every animal ascertained to be affiict-
ed even in the slightest degree With
the tubercle bacilli shall be marked
Cor destruction.
'The mere money cost to the Unit
ed States OF the plague of tuhercu-
losis overshadows all other eXpendi-
Eures," continued DR.. Mayfield. The
first five years the United States
army occupied the Philippines the
cost was about S200,00O, 1000; the
second five years $125, 100000, or a
total of 1925, 100000. In 1907 our
army and navy cost taxpayers S222,-
100000, and with the pension roll
Tor that year added, makes out this
sum to S3S4,O0O,O00. This is 67
per cent of the nations income for
war or it's expenses. These two
amounts added together give total
of S709, 100000. These are colossal
figures, but in comparison with the
following they are as electric light
to sunlight.
Medical science is authority for
the statement that out of the S0,-
100000 Of people belonging to the
United States 100000 are doomed
to die of consumption Without con-
sidering the cost these have been to-
their parents, or thousands of help
less orphans these deaths will send
to public institutions, or computing
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