The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-02-12
AS CONSERYOR OF HEALTH
Speaker Murray's Speech in
House UphoIds Hotel
Protective Measure

speaker Murray said: q realize
that many OF the members OF this
house VIII not see the Importance Of
this bin realize that the general
public, when they first hear OF this
bill and think or Il. may not see the
Importance of it, but am going to
give you in brief way the reason
why this bill was introduced the pnr
pose u intends to subserve. and the
objects Of the bill
This measure has two main objects
--one matter of the health of the
public and the other Is the preserva
tion Of life from FIRE. The prime OBJ
iect OF this bill is to protect the gen
eral public, and we wiz do that BIS
this bill BY protecting those wh1
travel, aud thus Indirectly protect the
general public as to their health and
safety. For that reason / put this
under the control OF Mr. Wilitehust
who is the originator of tEe idea with
ms assistance in drawing the bill OF
tile state board of health with the
view OF protecting the public. by pro
tecting the traveller generally
lt is an Acknowledged fact that the
germ theory Of contagious diseases Is
n correct idea II Is also a recognized
and demonstrated fact that consump
tion or tuberculosis or the white
plague, or whatever you arc pleased
to call 10, comes directly through the
spread of germs. The United States
department of agriculture has demon
strated ;hat fact to a certainty. and
has proved that consumption does
rsot come by Inheritance They dem
frustrated that fact BY taking the cali
of a COW diseased with mberca 6sis
away from her before It had ever
nursed from its mother, and they pal
that calf to a healthy COW, and they
likewise took cali from a healthy
COW and put with q tuberculosis COW
The caf that took milk from the dis
casod COW took the disease. and the
demonstrated time aftcr time
The department has also demonstra
ted that a. mixing of milk of dis
eaaed COW ty calf, pig or any other
Ssiinal viii luce that disease just
the further fact that by taking that
same milk ana boiling it until the
germs are destroyed that then it viii
The further fact is that these serms
are breathsd into tho atmosphere and
are thrown off and then they dry and
are brpathed into your lungs. 4
when you consider that fact il wi
demonstrate to you that when a con
sumptive comes into one of these
hotels that he breathos these germs
into the bed, and into the bed clothes
and sheets, pillows and blankets, and
then the next occupant ~ that room
may breath those germs into his sys
tenn and il may give him consumptio't
With the object in viaw of prevent
ing this and other diseases, we pro
vide what has caused a laugh when
sver II Is read, by the unthinking and
that is that the sheets shall be long
enough to lap over apd cover that tor
covering that cannot be washed on
changed very often-sO that the occu
pant OF that bed, who may be q trans
lent guest breathes the sheet and not
into the blanket and those top cceer
iugs that VIII hold these germs hVe
also provide that sheets, pillow lps
and SO on shall be changed be.3 any
other occupant goes into that room OF
sleeps in that bed That is the fun
ddmental idea OF the bill. 10 have
top and bottom sheets, aud have the
top sheet long enough TO lap back
over the blankets and other top cover
ings, and thus to protect the tor
coverings from disease germs, and
then to provide that these sheets and
pillow slips shall be changed before
another person occupies that room.
You may not be awake to the dang
er from the white plague right now
in this state, but neither were they IN
Colorado a few years ago, and peQ
pie with that disease went to that
state and We're invited 70 come there
by the people OF Colorado, and mSr
chants would take them into theii
stores to clerk, bat the disease sreH
IN that asylum OF the atmosphSre Of
prevention, 50 that in Denver now yot
cannot spit on the street because the
spit dries and blows away and thus
spreads the germs of this disease, and
so you have 70 spit into a spittOor
that is wet and this is taken away
and cremated and they have demon
strated the correctness OF the germ
theory Of the spread of this disease
think the government should pre-
vent people coming 10 this country
who have consumption, Just as they
do people who have smallpox or Other
contagious diseases. But on account
OF The fact that we have many peo
pie m our country WHO suffer from
that disease and 80 not know g. and
those people 80 into the room Of q no
tel and spread the germs OF the dis
ease through the sheets and blankets
on he may blow his breath into Tho
face of the man to whom be sell.
goods and that conduct Increases the
spread OF that disease.
ln that connections J want 20 cal
your attention 10 the fact that Mr.
Koch. who discovered the tuborculil
lymph says that 40 per cent of Oh,
registered dairy cattle Of Europe have
consumption, and he also showed thai