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Instructive Papers Read at Yes
terday's Session of Interna-
,ional Congress.
JUSTICE BREMER SPEAKS
Tells of the states Power to Protect
Hcnlth-PrOf. FISHER Estimates
the Annual Cost OF Tube rculo-
els In Excess Of n billion
Overlooking Condemned.

Washington, Sept Cone of the fca-
lures of to-day's session of the Tuber
culosis congress was an address by JUS
tice Brewer of the supreme Court of the
United States on THE Legitimate Exer-
else of the Police Power for the profcc-
ton of Health" He spoke In part as fol-
lows:
The police power cares for the health.
for the NE for the safety, for the good
morals OF the community. In each of
those cases IT Is individual who is direct
ly benefited and is only indirectly that
the state. as an organized entity is BEN
fitted by having good, healthy citizens.
good moral citizens, and staying the pro-
Eress of disease.
Continuing he said To-day we are
facing conditions of slightly differ
ent character. There are a series of
cases IN which shorter hours of la
Dor are demanded In behalf of the
employe. Now whenever the employ
meft is one which is attneded with
special risks the state may come and
say to the employer You shall not
let that man work above a certain
reasonable length of time but If the
occupation Is not freightcd with
danger, II is something behind the
power of the Legislature to disturb.
II n man thinks twelve hours is bet
ter for him and will inurc 70 his nap
piness to greater extent than the
avocation he is pursuing, and he IS
attended with no risks. then he has
the right 10 pursue that avocation
and his employer has the right to make
contract with him for that length
of time"
VIEWS OF SCIENTISTS.
Surgeon General simon Won Inter
berger Of St Petersburg, honorary ply
stefan at the Cars court, contributed
of "Hercdty in tuberculosis"
"All tendency to disease that appears
in any individual" asserted Or. Inter
berger is to be regarded as horedity
whether or not the corresponding dis
ease can be traced back each time to
parents or ancestors. The tendency to
consumption is inherited and may be
developed by various agencies. Numerous
autopsies show that every man over &c
years Of age has old remains of tub
erculous infection. These facts show how
comparatively easily the human organ
ism can overcome tho tubercle bacili
ment. the strengt hcning of tho organism
by hygienic and dictetic means"
DR.. Jules Bartel of Vienna discussing
the routes OF infection said The infection
from pharnyx, stomach and intestnes Is
far more frequent, particularly during
early life, than has generally been con.
sdered"
DR.. Carl Hart of Berlin IN his views or
the subject of predisposition Of the apices
OF the lungs to pulmonary tuberculosis
In youthful individuals is to be sought ir
an>individual predispositon due to anat
omic and functional disturbances OF the
normal conditions around the superior
aperture of the thorax
DR.. Samuel Bernheim OF Parts, Quotinl
from clinical facts and experiments OF
animals. drew the conclusion that tuher
Culosis is chiefly transmitted by aerla
germs and by way of respiratory tract
although II is sometimes acquired through
the skin.
DON'T OVERFEED CONSERVATIVES
Among the papers read to-day wa
one BY Prof. Irving Fisher Of Yale Uni
versity on Diet In Pulmonary Tubercu
loss"
Don't overfecd the consumptive,
said Prof, Fisher, He quoted statistic
barred returns from IS sanatoria
showing great differences in diet an
little system, although there Is a ten
dency toward reduction.
Professor Fisher said that many sana
toria all over the world are beginnn
TO see that "stuffng" the patient is nc
good for him. This is a reaction agains
the extreme over feeding. which ha
fattened consumptives Ike Strasbur
geese-and perhaps had the same effec
on their livers IT las made them loo
strong but feel weak The reason S
many sanatoria and physicians are he
ginning 70 realize this fact is due. nc
cording TO Professor Fisher. to the ir
huence Of Professor Chittenden, of YALE
ms we'll MS to Metchn!koff. in Paris. an
many others. who have been writin
about the dangers OF eating too mucl
especially too much meat, and OF "auto