The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04


of abject poverty, should all go 70
prove that we have a lower death rate
than other states, but at that, even III
Kansas, we have too many uedello no
from tuberculosis. am glad TO see
Kansas take the lead among the states
of the central west in this movement
against the common enemy or man
kind. I welcome you here TO-DAY: t0u
are entitled to the gratitude OF tne
rest of the state, for you are the pom
GERS in this plan"
Gov. Hoch was elected permanent
chairman of the meeting and Ut.
Emley Of Lawrence, secretary
Mr.. Deacon's Facts and Figures.
w. ]. " Deacon, statistician for the
state board of health was called upon
and startling speech. He pointed OUT
the large map that had been hung pe-
hind the chairman'S seat and decIareu
that it was plat of the city OF rope
ka and that every one OF the piack5
headed tacks stuck in the blocks ana
lots in this map represented a death
and its location in this city during the
past ten years from tuberculosis
There were 4SO tacks in the map. IN
this death list was represented 2O1
males and 279 females. The tacks
were placed closer together In the
bottoms district and in Tennessee
town. the negro settlements, ana IN
the Scandinavian settlement IN
Topeka. In the death list were 161
Mr.. Deacon then went on to say
that an average Of As deaths a year
from consumption in Topeka, clean
and sanitary city, would, if the same
ratio was carried over the state, mean
2,0S4 deaths a year from the dlseaSe
in kansas, or 2O.S4O in ten years. In
the course of his speech Mr.. Deacon
made the following terse recommen-
dations for fighting the disease;
Education before medicine
prevention rather than cure is the
campaign before US.
who pay less attention to fresh air ana
hygiene is twice as high as 1t IS
among the whites.
'In the midst of congestion: filth,
poverty and vice, there you VIII ma
the tubercular germs.
Sanitation, sunshine and fresh air
are the weapons with which to fght
the disease. 1t is a great fight ahead
but with Gods help we will win.
DIR. FTsI1e Speaks.
DR.. d. M. Fiske of Washburn col
lege was the next speaker called and
he responded with an address that
was an inspiration. He told how 140,-
900 people die every year in this coun-
try from consumption and a billion
dollars is spent per annum as result
of this plague. Our national debt is
less than $975,0O0,000.
eff we recognize the fact that we
are human. that we are brothers. that
I am my brothers keeper we will not
hesitate to begin the struggle against
tuberculosis.
at is not enough for the doctors to
known of the terror and the preven-
tions of this disease. Millions of the
common people must know it too and
cooperate with the physicians if great
good is to be accomplished.
= Does the average man know or
the magnificent battle that is being
fought in his body, in his blood. his
tissues his lungs to save his life from
the germs of tuberculosis? Does he
know how to best help nature in her
fight to save him from destruction?
We must democracise medical know
ledge, simplify it and make 1t prac-
the doctors and the experts IN the
fight against the white plague. Pure
air, pure food, temperance and
cleanliness are the allies to help us in
the struggle. These have won the vic
tory for modern civilization over yell
low fever and the cholera, why not
tuberculosis? The health depart
mentS the colleges, the newspapers
the schools, all should join the doctors
to teach the people the lesson of pre-
vention.'
Tribute to DR.. Crumbine.
Gov. Hoch, in introducing DIR. S. J.
Crumbine, secretary of the state board
of health, paid a high tribute to the
doctors continued and successful fight
for pure food. pure water, sanitation,
hygiene and health and gave him the
credit for starting this movement
against the ravages of tuberculosis.
DIR. Crumbine was greeted with hearty
applause when he arose to speak. He
wasted no time with preliminaries but
got down at once to the serious busi
ness of the meeting by reading a con-
stitution and by laws revised from
those of the national organization
which he proposed for the Kansas
branch. His motion was carried and
Gov. Hoch was instructed by motion
to appoint nominating committee of
seven to select officers for the new
organization. Drs. Crumbine, Jack
son. Mum and Eva Harding of To-
peka and Enley of Lawrence and
Mrs. w. A. Johnson of Topeka and
Mrs. J. S. Simmons of Hutchinson
were appointed.
While waiting for the committee to
report the conference listened to short
talks by DR.. Van Horn of this
w. A. L. johnson. DR.. Frank
Lynch and others.
teachers in the public schools being |
affected with tuberculosis. Gov. Hoch |
took occasion to say that he favored |
a rigid physical examination for all |
pupils and teachers entering school |
and then it wound be found who had I
the disease and who had not "The |
state should take its responsibility to |
see that tubercular infection is not
spread in our public schools de-
clared the governor
After the election of the board of |
directors the conference adjourned.
What Tuberculosis Is.
1.-The general term tuberculosis said |
DR.. L. NJ. Powell today, embraces a /
number of socalled infectious inham-
natory diseases which are the result |
IF the implantation and proliferation /
IF the specific germ called the 'tuber-
cle bacillCs.'
1.-THE name and character of the dis /
ease depend upon the parts invaded by |
he bacilH as we'll as upon their mode |