The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-09
Tells Wayne County HorticuI-
turaI Society That Steps
Must Be Taken to Stop the
Dread Plague.
MANY SOCIETY MEMBERS
DOUBTED HIS STATEMENT
Annual Dinner of Horticultur-
lists Was a Great Success
And Over Two Hundred Peo-
pie Were Served at Dinner.

Another annual dinner of the Wayne
County Agricultural and Horticultural
society was held yesterday at the court
house in the societys room.
Through the assistance of the special
committees, the tables were arranged
and as the Well-filed baskets were un-
packed, the dinner was made ready.
This meal was partaken Of by about
200 members and their friends.
In the yestibule of the court house
corridors the premium articles were
placed to be judged by the special COM
mittees appointed by the president,
and after the awards were made, they
were placed upon the large dinner
tables along with the other good
things.
After the dining tables had been
cleared the members and their friends
together with d number of visitors list
cned to an entertaining lecture by Dr.
Charles S. Bond on the subject of tu-
berculOSis. The electrical connection
at the court house was so imperfect
tnat he was unable to use the stereop-
tlcan to illustrate his lecture. In his
address he referred to experiments
that have recently been made in con-
nection with the study of contagious
diseases.
He said that cholera, lock jaw, diph.
iberia. and measles as we'll as tuber-
CulOsis have been the favOrite germs
for experiment, and thanks to the in
vestigators, it has not only demon
strated many improved facts, but it
has enabled science to better battle
with the virulence of such diseases 1t
is expected. DR.. Bond said. that before
another half century. if such expert
ments continue, all diseases may be so
we'll known that the average life Of
humans as well as live stock may be
heightened many years.
DR.. Bond referred to the necessity OF
cleanliness and the great care that
should be exercised by people who are
exposed TO germs of diseases. OF all
diseases he believed tuberculosis was
the worst. He stated that about ninety
per cent of the people now living had.
or would have. tuberculosis in some
form or other during their lives. and
the reason that there are not more
fatalities. he stated. was due TO the
resistance OF the individuals them
selves. He referred to recent expert
n-ents in slaughtered animals that
We're killed for public use. He advo-
Gated the necessity of thorough in
apection as the only means of lesseuinG
The liability OF contamination. He said
that, contrary to general opinion, 1t is
often found that the latest animal has
some portion Of its body more or less
badly infected with tuberculosis.
Aside from the subject of meat. he
said that milk should receive its share
of attention, as perains to the public
health. He contended that milk itself
was an excellent medium for the de
velopment of such germs and bacteria.
1t has been shown that milk which
has sOured. Dr. Bond stated. did not
owe its condition TO the development
of tubersuline bacilli with milk as such
medium. there can be TO doubt, he
stated. as to the necessity of cleanli-
ness and. as he stated. much OF the
complaints so common 10 humanity
could be kept to q minimum.
1t was seen from the countenances
of many OF those present as well as
the expressions made after the ad-
dress that they did not all take kindly
to Dr.. Bonds theories. Many agreed
that the experiments which have been
made are steps in the right direction
but they could not see why it was
that our ancestors were 50 long lived
and apparently healthy when inspac
tion was then unknown; and 81 this
time. with all the modern knowledge
and appliances. the average life is ap.
parently so much shorter. These per
tireut questions DR.. Bond answered
with the statement that the hardskipS
81 frontier life and their exposures