The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-02
WHITE PLAGUE
MENACES YOUNG
Speakers at tuberculosis Con-
greSS Deal Largely With
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
School Work Is Discussed--Miss Stark
Thinks Much Might Be Done by
Teaching Pupils Preventive
Measures.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Washington, Oct. 2.--Those who are
waging a great scientific battle against
tuberculosis furnished more interesting
data before the International Congress
on tuberculosis here yesterday along
the lines Of prevention and treatment
for the dread disease in its early stages
The majority dealt with the all-im
portant problem of treatment for chill
dren together with suggestions concern
ing sanitation in schools, tenement
houses, and other places where children
congregate. and review OF the work
in sanitoriums.
Among those who read papers were
several women interested in the safe
guards that are being thrown about the
cid and young alike in various sections
of the country
Bertha l.. Clark reported on "Anti.
tuberculosis Work In Pittsburg schools"
DR.. G. o. Probst on "Sanitorium Con.
struction and Management" DIR. l..
Brown on ultimate Results OF SANTA
forum Treatment" DIR. 4. Mather Still
on "Calmette's 0phthalmic Reaction to
Tubereulin,' Samuel G. Dixon on. Gov.
ernmental Control Of tuberculosis Pa
tients in Pennsylvania" and J. Fibiger
and c. o. Jensen on investigations in
to the Relatios of Human and Bovine
tuberculosis and Bocolli."
Concerning the work Of the Pitts.
burg schools, Miss Stark said:
while the educational side of tuber-
culosis work in Pittsburg has never
reached the degree Of organization found
in many other cities. it does have one
feature which is absolutely unique and
can be commended as very satisfac
tory means Of education that is-an
attempt to give systematic instruction
10 school children in the cause and pre-
yention Of tuberculosis under the cap
ton Of Preventative Medicine
'The work is divided into three parts
lectures. literature and exhibition As
one would naturally expect H dealing
with children, the exhibits have been
most effective method OF arousing inter
est. They are FIVE in number, and trav-
% from school TO school. Each has
forty glassed and framed pictures,
showing as graphically It's possible cause
prevention and cure of tuberculosis. The
amount of good accomplished by these
exhibitions and the questions arising
from them is not inconsiderab)e.
''The school work was begun on Jan
Is. 1908, and finished June 6, 1908. Dur
ing that time lectures were given to
over 10000 childreh and, aside from
the school lectures, about thirty others
were given at teachers meetings
church societies, clubs, etc Through
the number of children reached seems
comparatively small, it is felt that the
work was more thoroughly done than
is possible in large assemblies.
"If teaching preventive medicine.
with anti-tuberculosis work as one OF
its most important branches, could be
made permanent and prominent feat
TIRE in public school work throughout
the country, a diminution in the death
rafe, not only of tuberculosis but ty-
phoid and other preyentable diseases.
might reasonably be expected. The
work could be carried on in conjunction
with medical inspection which must
eventually find it's way into all the
city schools. Immediate results could
not be expected, but that they would
show in ten or fifteen years is reason
ably certain"
That any successful immunity from
must be accomplished
through the use Of living tubercle bacilli
was the theory advanced before the
section on Immunity" in a paper read
for Prof. NJ, A. Barber Of the univer
sity of Kansas and Drs. w W. vii
Hams and Gerald w Webb of Colorado
Springs, Col The paper was entitled
Immunity Production by Inoculation
Of Increasing Numbers Of Bacteria" and
attracted considerable attention. I'm
munity by the incubation of the liv-
ing germs has been accomplished in but
few diseases, principally in smallpox,
Int the authors declare that satisfac-
tory immunity from tuberculosis has
only been obtained eXperimentally by
the use oS living baeilli. The expert
ments consisted of inoculating guinea