Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-10
TALKS TO TEACHERS
Public Health Discussed at
Museum Auditorium.
GENERAL RULES LAID DOWN
supt. Stuart Discusses Sanitary Edu-
cation of Next Generation.
DR.. A. F. A. KING ON PHTHISIS
florence V. Powderly Explains Rea-
sons Why Tuberculops Emigrants
Are Sent Home.
GENERAL RULES LAID DOWN
DR.. A. F. A. KING ON PHTH1SIs

A large audience composed almost en-
tirely of public school teachers and pupils
of the Normal School listened attentively
this morning to the speeches of Supt.
A. T. Stuart, DR.. A. F. A. King and Ter
ence V. Powderly on topics concerned
with tuberculosis and public health.
The main auditorium of the assembly
hall in the new museum building was
filed with several hundred women teach
ers with here and there a few men.
Mr. Stuart acted as chairman. His ad-
dress was the first of the meeting.
Education of Children.
He said:
1.-THE object of bringing school children
to the great exhibit Of the international
congress on tuberculosis is to make an
impression upon their young minds. Many
children may have gained valuable direct
lessons from their visit here, but the great
majority probably have not.
I'VE wanted to make them ask What is
this all about? and so. in their play and
at home bring the matter up for discus
sion. All the high school pupils and
many others have visited the exhibits.
1 estimate that 5000 public and private
school children have been here"
Speaking OlreClly 10 the tedCHeTS pres
ent he said:
ANY future success that the medical
profession and civic rulers may have in
fighting the disease may be made posi-
BILE through you, for what you teach
the children today becomes the sentiment
of the man of tomorrow. The medical
men must lay out a program, plan OF
campaign. 1t must be reduced to peda-
gogics SO the knowledge can be dissent
mated through the schools to the people.
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the Commissioners the need in our schools
for hygienic drinking fountains. To OBJ
tain these we must have the cooperation
of the people in the municipal govern
ment who build the schools.
II want to see in all our school build
ings a vacuum system of cleaning the
schoolrooms. BY the brush-and-broom
method dust flies into the air and settles
back in the room again. By the up-to-
date vacuum method every particle OF
dust is removed once and for all.
We are going to introduce into one Of
the grades, within a few days. a primer
on tuberculosis Into the normal schools
we are going to have course on the sub
iect. for the normal school is where a
teachers ideals are formed and the place
where any reforms In teaching should
start"
Rules Laid Down by DR.. King.
Mr.. Stuart was followed by DR.. A. F.
A. King. who told in simple language just
what causes consumption and how per-
sons living in an affected atmosphere can
escape 1t. AS the deliberations of the
congress have shown the world that the
entire globe is bathed in bacilli Of the
tuherculous sort, DR.. Kings rules shot out
over the heads of the teachers and applied
to the entire race.
DR.. Kings three fundamental rules are
as follows:
Three things are necessary in orde:
%1,ot no hun hain
cape tubercular infection of the lungs
even though inhaling an atmosphere in
fected with tubercle bacilli.
First. The daily and habitual practice
Of muscular exercise. either work or play,
in a sufficient degree to create the physi-
illogical necessity for full breathing and
complete expansion of the lungs.
Second. The daily and habtual prac-
tice of vocal exercise, whether talking.
laughing, singing shouting or speaking.
in a sufficient degree to produce a thor
eugh mechanical vibration of the lungs
Third. The daily and habitual main
tenance of mental attitude or condition
which shall be characterized by cheerful
ness and hope instead of anxiety and des-
pair.
I'm brief, unnatural muscular Incidence
vocal silence and mental anxiety produce
an increased liability to tubercular infec-
ton of the lungs"
DR.. King made Some interesting state
ments in the course of his talk. One
WAS that the hair-like tubes In the lungs
which inhale the air we breathe repre-
sent 900 square feet of surface.
Another theory of the doctors. on which
he dwelt at length. is that decaying teeth
might become unknown to humanity If
the high state Of civilization and finnicky-
ness to which man has attained in GER
tain sections did not preclude the eating
of birds heads. animals head and bones
and similar atrocities. The brains and
bones furnish a phosphate of lime neces-
sary for building up teeth, bones and
brains.
The whole Of the wheat. husks and all.
should be eaten. said DR.. King The
neglect of this little rule is filing the in
sane asylums, through lack Of brain nu-
triton, and making dentists rich, if DR..
King Is right.
Terence V. Powderly of the bureau of
immigration told the teachers what the
government is doing to keep tuberculosis
from America by inspection at the ports
of entry. He produced some official doc
uments which showed that the govern
ment bases it's exclusion rules on GER
tain rulings of Surgeon General Walter
Wyman that tuberculosis is dangerous
conta giOus disease.
Lectures From a Graphophone.
DR.. Pease of New York took his graph
ophone out on the streets in a big wagon
yesterday afternoon and let it deliver its
lecture on how to prevent tuberculosis.
For fifteen minutes the employees coming
from the Treasury building were RECALLED
with advice. Good living, fresh air and
the evils of splitting on the sidewalk con-
stituted the theme of the lecture. From
the Treasury the machine was taken to
10Th street and Pennsylvania avenue and
from there to 7th street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
The Frazee laundry employees were
given a graphophone lecture on tubercu-
losis yesterday during their lunch hour
Mrs. Wilbur r. Crafts. who is interested
in the universal language. Esperanto, has
prepared a circular for the use of the Red
Cross in its fight against consumption.
The pupils of Gonzaga College visited
the exhibits yesterday afternoon.