New-York tribune., 1908-01-17
DON'T POULTICE EVILS
Rem0Ue the Causes Instead, Says
Mrs. Henry Villard.

Il often wonder" said Mrs Henry Willard presi-
dent of the New York Diet Kitchen Association,
at the annual meeting of the association yestec
day afternoon, how feel at ease, simply
giving money to poutice the evils in New York
whose causes should be removed. For my part, IN
not content to read that the 10000 dark rooms in
tenements have been reduced by a few hun
dred or a few thousand rooms. We have no right
be satisfied with acknowledging and tabula ting
evils which should be fighting to sweep out
Of existence. We must save tenement popud-
ton lost ourselves. But that is ques-
ton OF changing economic conditions in the mean
time the work of ameoraton must go on
Toward that work the Diet Kitchen Association
contributed during the months of June July,
August and September 1854 quarts of milk given
TO the sick poor That 24,1s2 quarts than
given during the period IN 1906. "Tu-
berculosis cases receive double the amount" said
Mrs Willard. During 1907 1887 quarts were given
to them, also 2S,s32 eggs. which contributed
lone poor creature who receives milk through
the Ann Barbara Kitchen is old woman. half Of
whose face has been eaten away by cancer When
the matron OF the kitchen visited her she tried to
say something. Only the word bless could be
made out
She asks God to bless those who give her the
milk her daughter explained
Your association ought to have endowment
fund of s5.0o0000,' said DR.. S. T. Armstrong, of
Bellevue Hospital, who spoke next. You have
seven diet kitchens; you ought to have seventy
seven 1t should be that you could say to every
OF the nnety-nine dispensaries in New York
Send the sick poor to u.s. and will give them
milk, eggs and rice The majority of patients
discharged from the hospitals merely improved
not really ft to go back to work They need good
food. and too often their tenement homes, made
poorer by their sickness, bare of food. They
should be saved from falling into the pit again
DON'T Dr. Armstrong added, lin your concern for
the babies forget the parents. For if the parents
are in weakened condition, the children they
beget will be weak and puny.'
DR. William Halleck Parke, the bacterioogist
talked of the dangers of impure milk. ITO show
how necessary inspectors are" he said. "a little
while ago it was decided to give some of the pa
tients at Bellevue better milk than they had been
having Through slip, inspection was not
provided for. The milk did seem to be
any better. and upon examination proved TO be the
same as the other The contractor sending the
same old milk, trusting it wouldn't be found out"
DR. Parke said that bacteria were not always
inimical-n fact, they were nourishng, if you took
the right kind. THE fear of tuberculosis bacilli
Is exaggerated. You will remember that ex
pertinent was tried over on Randalfs Island Of
keeping some of the children milk from a herd
of thirty superfinely cared for cows After awhile
il occurred to some one TO examine those COWS for
tuberculosis and was, found that twentyeight of
them had it, Yet only 10 per cent of the children
were infected with tuberculosis, and some of them
doubtless had IL in their blood before.