The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-19
ne Disease Could be Entirely Stamp
ed Out if the People Would
Follow the In
structions.
HOW TO PREVENT IT
attention TO Sanitation and Plenty of
Light and Air Will Help
the War Against
Disease.

Last evening at the high school. DR..
J. w. Kline of Fort Dodge lectured
upon the subject of tuberculosis. the
lecture being given under the direc-
ton of the state board of control
The audience was not as large a
one as it should have been, but there
We're hundred people present who
were greatly interested in the lee
ture which was instructive and inter.
esting, being illustrated with many
lantern slide views.
DR.. jenkins introduced the speak
er and said that tuberculosis was
such widespread disease now that
1t had gotten beyond the doctors who
cannot fight it alone and world wide
movement is now on to educate the
people. II everyone would do their
full duty, the disease could be entire
ly wiped out.
Dr. kime's Lecture.
DR.. Kline said that it was Difficult;
thing for the people to understand why
the doctors were giving away their
secrets and cutting off their source
of revenue. They are the only profes-
sion which does this We take this
position that if the people all knew
what the doctors know about tuber-
culosis, the death rate would be cut
In half in ten years and practically
wiped out in % years. During the last
40 years, the doctors, by teaching the
people how to prevent death, have
increased the age limit about years
At present there is a world wide cam
paign against tuberculosis.
One-seventh of the population dies
from tuberculosis. Since the discov
cry of the bacilli, we have studied its
habits and are learning to avoid and
prevent them. The doctor then pre-
sented his first stereoptican view. 6
chart showing the death rate from the
disease according to ages. The
heaviest death rate is between the
years of 20 to 81. After that the
death rate diminishes.
4,SO
females and BIAS males who had
tuberculosis. This was shown in {
diagram. 1t is house disease and il
an agricultural state like Iowa where
the men are out OF doors the most
the women greatly outnumber tht
men who have the disease Will,
eastern states do not show such diff
ference OF those in Iowa, the foreign
born people show an increase c. 3 !.
per cent over the native born people
A diagram of the state was show
with dots upon the map showing tn,
cases as distributed A picture wa
shown of a patient on his bed in tn
little room of a poor family The 9th
er members being present. This pic
ture was used as an illustration t,
show how the disease may be spread
Extreme hopefulness is more char
acteristic of this disease than an
other
The greatest percentage of death
are in the states of California. SoutI
Dakota, Kentucky and Tennessee; tn
first because of the sick moving there
and the second because of the man
foreigners there. A map of the coun
try was shown with shadings repre-
senting the percentage of deaths.
The tuberculosis germ is plan
which can only grow in the tissues o
humans or animals. AS much sputun
as will lie on the head of a pin con
tains hundreds of these bacilli. The
are on the lips of the patient and cal
be transferred by a kiss or a common
drinking cup.