Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-29
DOOMED TO DEATH
BY CONSUME ton
Prof. Fisher Of Yale Says Such
Fate Of 100000 People
Living in United States.
COST SOMETHING ENORMOUS
Demise Of $4,000 Persons AM
nuaIly Entails an Expense of
Over a Billion Dollars.
COST SOMETHING ENORMOUS
Prof. Calmut, Director OF Lille Pasteuf
Institute, Advanced Theory Tubcr-
Guile BacilIi Taken swallowing.

Washington, Sept. 19.--That 100000
people, now living in the United States
are doomed to fill consumptives graves
unless something is done to prevent it,
was the startling declaration OF Prof.
Irving Fisher of Yale university in an!
address on The Cost of fTuberculcsi
before the International tuberculosis
congress today. Prof. Fishers address
created sensation.
Prof. Fisher further declared that the
l3S0O0 persons who die of consumption
annually in this country cost. in hard
cash. over S1,0n000o q year.
In section one. in which 1t is expect
ed the most OF the scientific discussions
| and discoveries Will develop. there WAS
| "A discussion of great Importance to the \
| congress at this morning session when
| Prof Calmett Of Lille. France, direc-
| tor OF the Pasteur institute, advanced
| the theory that tubercule hacillai are
taken into the system by swallowing.
| Heretofore inhalation has been consid-a
| cred the principal method of contracts
ing consumption. Infection by inhala-
! ton was warmly defended by Prof.
! rendeloo of Holland
/ Past Asst. Surgeon Victor g.. fieifar
| of the United States public health and
marine hospital service. and director OF
health of the philippine islands, assert
ed that in tropical countries. where
4 tuberculosis and hookWorm disease pre-
Il. Ndll,a VI LIE
5duced better results in diminishing the
mortality from tuberculosis than any !.
i other measure that has yet been tried
/ on a large scale Isl
The second days session Of the in
i ternatlonal congress on tuberculosis
l5opened at $3.50 o'clock this morning.
4 The entire morning was devoted TO the
work OF section /. with DIR. William Al
l Wech of Baltimore, presiding. Par
ticipating in the discussions which
( dealt principally with such phases of
\ tuberculosis as channels of Infection.
latent injection, predisposition and
heredity, were many distinguished
medical scientists from abroad. Sur.
geon- Gen. Simon Won Unterbergen of
E St Petersburg. Russia, honorary ply
stefan at the cars COURT contributed
"A his views OH "Heredity In tuberculosis.
'.All tendency to disease that appears
in any Individual asserted DR.. Won
| llnterberger, lis 10 be f regarded as
hereditary. whether or not the cor
responding disease can be traced back
each time to parents or ancestors e {;
tendency TO consumption is Inherited
ard may be developed by various
l;agencies. Numerous autopsies show
that every man over 30 years of age
has old remains of tuberculosis infec-
ton These facts show how compare
lively easy the human organism can
overcome the tubercle bacilli and give
US in the indication for our treatment,
the strengthening of the organism by
hygienic and dietic means We must
seek to destroy the tubercle bacillus.
f but our chief endeavors must be di-
rected towards Strengthening the
K body
l. DIR. Julius Bartel of Vienna, discus
sins the routes of infection. said:
The infection from pharnyx, stom-i
s ach and intestines is far more frequent
particularly during early life than has
w h.,1sr or
portance, as compared with general
hygienic regulations. is the constant
| dispute concerning the more frequent
mode of infection whether due TO swal-l
lowing or inhalation, inasmuch as It is
H | difficult to judge the relative effects
Of deglution and aspiration"
DR.. Carl Hart Of Berlin, in his views
on the subject of predfsposition of the
apices Of the lungs to pulmonary
tuberculosis declared that aside from
infection the cause of pulmonary tub
srculosis in youthful individuals is
TO BIO sought in an individual predis-i
position due to anatomic and func-
tional disturbance of the normal cor
ditions around the superior aperture
of the thorax. The 1nal outcome Of
this battle between the tubercule BAG
ill and tissues depends on the degree
of the functional disturbances, he de-
Dr.. Samuel Be1nneln. Of Paris.
quoting from clinical facts and eS-l
periments on animals drew the con-
& sclusion that tuberculosis is chiefly
transmitted by aerial germs and by
way of respiratory tract. He further
stated that the skin may serve as q
channel of entrance to tuberculosis, In
conditions practicularly favorable TO
continuation although this could not
be considered a factor of first import
ance.
Other speakers on the program and
their subjects We're:
Prof n p. Tendeloo. Leyden.
"A "chanuels of Infection DR.. G. Kuss.
Angfcourt, France. Sources and Paths
OF Tuberculosis Infection" Prof. Fran
els Harbitz, Christiania, Latent Tub
erculosIs:" Prof. A. S. Warthln, Mich,
THE Present State or our knowledge
Concerning Heredity In TuberculosisS
DR.. Johann Won ScaaboaKy, Buda Pest.
Gleichenberg, .,rhe Role of Inherited
Predisposition in the Eitology OF
3 Tubercutosis:n Prof. 3. Stiller OF Buaa
/ pest pulmonary Tuberculosis anu
Athena UniVersialias.'
After recess sections one and two
| of the congress held a joint session thus
AFTERNOON, converting at 2:S0 O'Clock
The principal subjects discussed wefe
"conjuctival and Cutaneous Tubercltt,
Reactions Opsonic Index, ann
..S.ar,,n, &! r ia ynf,si So