The Washington times., 1908-09-30
DR.. Koch, Famous Specialist,
Pays Tribute to Ameri-
can City.

That the city Of New York leads the
world in the fight Of the municipalities
against tuberculosis, was the declaration
made today by DR.. Robert Koch, the
renowned tuberculosis specialist. OF
Berlin, at the international Tuberculosis
Congress. in session at the New Ma
tiOnal Museum Building.
Admitting that the city led his own
country in the strictness Of the measures
It had adopted, the disCOverer Of the
tubercle baccini paid a high tribute to
the work that is being done there by
the municipal medical authorities, and
especially DIT. Herman Biggs. the gen
eral medical officer Of the department
OF health
The statements Of the famous tUber-
cuIosis fighter which startled the hun
dreds of physicians in Section six, came
without any intimatiOn of what he was
10 say He was present 10 take part
In the informal discussion following the
reading Of q paper by DR.. Biggs, de-
scribing the work that IS being done in
New York.
Praises City's System.
The measure adopted by the city OF
New York in making removal COM
pulsory in cases where it was deemed
necessary to prevent contagion Of
persons living in the same houses or
rooms, was given high praise by DR..
Koch, who said he wished such rule
could be adopted in his native country.
Il wish 10 express my admiration for
the work that the city of New York is
doing 10 stamp out tuberculosis, he
said. Especially do / wish 10 cOmplI-
Tnent the city authorities on their fOrci-
BILE removal Of tuberculosis cases from
homes
The organization which they have
there, and which DR.. BiggS has so well
described 10 you, IS unequaled, I be-
lieve, in the world Such measures,
though, L do not think should be eXer-
Cised in many instances. But 1 have
found from talking 10 New York medi-
cal officers that IN many instances IL
is not necessary to remove theppatient,
because the threat Of removal has CauS-
ed the adoption Of the necessary sani-
tary arrangements. That, after all. is
one Of the things which as much as
anything else IS TO wipe out the dis
ease In Germany they have not gone
Il hope the time VIII come in the not
far distant future when the fine example
OF the city Of New York can be adopted
in my country, especially regarding
compulsory registration and fOrcible re
mOVaL'
Many Meetings Held.
The entire quota Of sections were IN
full blast this morning, while the cor
ridQrs Of the exhibition rooms were filed
with delegates and visitors. The sec
ton rooms resembIed so many college
lecture rooms, with students running
here and there, from one to another,
with handfuls of papers.
This afternoon, in a joint session OF
sections 1 and :. the relation of human
and bovine tuberculosis viii be hotly
Of ba Ont
speciaustics in the world. headed by DIT
Koch.
In 1901. DR.. Koch said that human
and bovine tuberculosis were distinct
and separate, and that bovine tuberCu-
Isis, If conveyed 10 man. could not set
Up generalized tuberculosis IN The hu-
man body"
Think DR.. Koch Wrong.
The number Of the physicians who VIII
speak this afternoon at the joint ses-
sion declare that DIT. Koch was wrong
and that the transmission Of bovine ba-
GILL to man viii cause the disease
Prof Fiberger, professor Of pathology
in the University Of Copenhagen, and
DR.. c. o. Yensen, professor Of pathol-
ogy in the Royal Veterinarian High
School at Copenhagen. have collabOraJ-
ed in a paper giving the result Of then
Investigations in which they declare
that the human and bovine baCiui are
intertransmiSsa5le.
Another subject which Will come uI
this afternoon viii be the comparative
mortality OF tuberculosis in the diff
ferent races. This viii be discussed il
section ;.
This morning in section . n number
of foreign physicians read papers OF
tuberculin and it's derivatives. In sec
ton I physicians discussed the subjec
OF infection through the skin, DR.. julie
Bartel paying special attention to tn
danger Of infection in public places.
Dr. Trudenu's Address.
DR.. z. F. Trudeau. founder OF tn,
first fresh air sanatorium in the United
States, and also founder Of the frs
laboratory for tUbeTCulaT research, at
tracted a large gathering of physician
10 section two. where he read a pape,
on "Antibactertal or Antitoxic Immun
ization IN Tuberculin Treatment"
He said:
trying to accomplish with tuberculn
US in its application. Do we aim Z
Immunity against the germ itself: o
the poison Of the germ, the relief thu
given to the system enabling the natu
raj defensive resources Of the patient 4
heal the disease more readily? The pa
per discusses the production of irnrniin
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