New-York tribune., 1908-09-30
TUBERCULOSIS COUNCIL
JUSTICE BREWER TALKS.
addresses Made by Many IHUesti-
gators of Note.

Washington. Sept. 29-That Justice David ].
Brewer of the United States Supreme Court. does
not fully share the rather gloomy views held by
some OF the world famed authorities on tubercu-
losis shown in his address to-day before the
International tuberculosis Congress Justice Brew
er's topic Legitimate Exercise Of Police
Power for the Protection Of Health He was pre-
ceded on the programme by Professor Irving Fisher.
OF Yale. who declared that five million people now
living in the United States were doomed TO fill con-
sumptives graves unless something was done
prevent. and that the 13S deaths this country
annually from tuberculosis cost. in hard cash. over
$1,000 900 OGO a year
Justice Brewers remarks not directed par
ticularly at Professor Fisher but included the
!arations made by other speakers in similar vein
which have been presented to US. l premise BY
saving that consider myself a reasonably healthy
man. and that / hope no longing medical eyes will
be cast upon that I will be unable to leave
TINS room with the same good health
Thus prefacing his address, Justice Brewer went
on to define the police power being that power
which the state exercised regulate the relations
of one individual to a1.other He said in part;
The police power for the health, FOR the
me- for the safety. for the good morals Of the
community. In each of those cases it is the In
dividuaI who is directly benefited. and it is only
lndlrectly that the state. organized entity, IS
moral citizens and staying the progress Of disease.
To-day we are facing conditions OF slightly diff
Lt LeLtIt character There are series OF cases IN
which shorter hours Of labor are demanded in be
nalI @ OF the emPoye- Now, whenever the employ
!neht is one which is attended with special rl5Ks
the state may come and say the employer. You
able length of time But if the occupation is not
freighted with danger. it is something beyond the
thinks working twelve hours is better for him and
will inure to his happiness to a greater extent
with no risks then he has the right to pursue tnat
avocat1on. and the employer has the right 70 make
a contract with him for that length Of time
In Oregon the Legislature passed statute limit
ing the hours in which woman could be en-
piOyed |
that, and | said, You may not contract away all
the hours which a may contract for labor, be
cause -yUu have a function to perform which he
has not. The needs you, your children need
you, your friends need you, In a way thst they 90
not need the other sex, and l had no doubt that
opinion of the Supreme Court aSsented-
Dr. Ladisaus Detre Of Budapest. discoverer Of
a method of diagnosis TO disclose the type.
degree and stage of infection. through the nocu-
lation of the patients with human and bovine
tubercule bacilIi delivered an address with black
board illustrations.
The Ransom Of a Great City was the title Of
an address by DR.. Talcott Williams. OF Philadel-
phia- He contended that city should oe held
responsible for suppressng preventibe diseases
for keeping its roads in repair The annual
death rate from tuberculosis in Philadelphia. he
said was about three thousand. He said that
with 81 600 for hospital construction and yearly
expenditure of 100000 the tuberculosis Infection
in Philadelphia could be extirpated.
Homer Folks, of New York read paper on Eff
fectfve Control of tuberculosis in Small Cities and
Rural Communities In part he said:
The cost of tuberculosis 10 the people Of the
State of New York is variOusly estimated at from
$15 000GO0 to S75.0C0000 year. The prevention o.
tuberculosis. economic and educational prop
| lem entirely feasible and workable pro-
grarnme In fact. it is much less Glncuit ana
much less expensive than many other movements
which have been successfully carried out
The control Of tuberculosis undoubtedly Involves
large expenditures for hospitals. dispensartes nurs-
ing, relief, To say nothing OF It's humane as
/ poets which might properly be The controlling
/ considera ton, viewing the matter purely one
! of business there is no enterprise in which the
! public can engage and the public money be ex-
! pended comparable IN the magnitude or It's returns
/ with the prevention Of tuberculosis
Many other addresses were made by men Of note
/ in the investigation of tuberculosis
| Tonight at Assembly Hall Dr. Arthur News
/ holme OF London, delivered a lecture or The
/ Causes of the Past Decline OF tuberculosis, and
| the Light Thrown by History on Preventive Meas
y1res for the Immediate Future"
! Dr. Robert Koch. OF Germany. and DR.. J. F
Heynans of Belgium. to-day received telegraTIls
/ from Nathan Straus. the New York pEilanthroptst
who for sixteen years has been seeking to prevent
tuberculosis by teaching the world TO pasteurIze
milk congratulating the former Tor MS accept
ance Of the chairmanship OF the commission that
is to declare authOrtatfvely the danger OF tube--
cuIar infection from milk and the latter Sor causing
the formation OF the commission