Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-18
CAUSED BY MILK.
Eight Million People Doomed to
Be Killed by the
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.


and Bury Victims-League Dis
cusses Action-Anti-Tuber
Workers i'm Favor of WipiHg Ou
All IRfected Cattle.
The Great White Plague" seem.
likely to lose some of it's greatnes.
as the result of the national conven
ton of the American Anti-Tubercu
losis League which closed at st. Louis
recently. The principal demand oi
the convention was for legislation
against defective COWS, it being as.
serted that about 90 per cent of the
consumptives in the United States
contract their tuberculosis in raw
milk.
Opposing factions, one advocating
the isolation plan for the treatment
Iof consumptives and the other defend
ing the present policy of treating the
disease in cities. were in combat al
the closing session. The controversy
assumed the form of a debate, DR..
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the Mayfield Sanitarium, of st. Louis,
representing the isolation advocates,
and DR.. Joseph f. Chambers, presi-
dent of the Hippocratean College of
Medicine, of ST. Louis, representing
the other faction. The subject of
the debate was:
Resolved, That tuberculosis can
be more effectively treated in the
isolated arid regions than in hospi-
tails in cities"
The honors were about even, but
Dr. TyZzer had the more meritorious
side of the argument, apparently, as
the majority of the delegates not
personally interested in some city in
stitution were in his faction.
Raw Milk" was the title of pa
per submitted by Nathan Straus, the
New York philanthropist. 1t was an
able paper. covering the raw milk
subject thoroughly, and closing with
the following three Deductions:
Il. That tuberculosis is aprevent-
able disease.
%. That raw milk is the common
cause OF tuberculosis.
%. That the peril of tuberculosis
in milk can be absolutely removed by
proper pasteurization."
Ernest j. Lederle, former Com
missioner of Health of New York.
submitted a paper entitled, public
Milk Supplies. with Special Reference
TO the tuberculosis Problem" He
stated that tuberculosis was now very
prevalent among milk cows and in
creasing, and urged legislation aimed
at such consumptive cows.
c. w. Saleeby, of London. Eng
land. spoke on Potential Homicide,
the Greatest Menace of the Human
Race
sterilization, valuable as it is as
final safeguard against tuberculosis,
is, after ALL" said DR.. Donohue. only
an eXpedient and must not be put
into so much prominence that the
Importance OF the other safeguard be
lost sight of. Beyond any question,
the ultimate advantage lies in OBJ
tanning milk from cattle free from
disease. II is n fact comparable
with the advantage of obtaining
drinking water from pure source
instead of taking it from contami-
mated one and relying upon purifica-
ton afterwards"
Or. w. II. Mayfield, general secre-
tary and executive officer of the
American Anti-Tuberculosis League
predicted in his address that "be-
fore long there will be state and ma
tional laws requiring that inspectors
shall duly examine every COW whose
milk is offered for human use, an6
every animal ascertained TO be afflict
ed even in the slightest degree will
the tubercle bacilli shall be marked
:or destruction.
THE mere money cost to the Uni:
ed States of the plague of tubercu
Iosis overshadows all other expendl
lures" continued DR.. Mayfield. "Th'
first FIVE years the United State
army occupied the Philippines th
cost was about S2OO,000,0 900; th
, second five years $125,000, 900, or
total Of 1926, 100000. In 1907 on
army and navy cost taxpayers $222,
600, eco, and with the pension rol
for that year added, makes out thi
: sum to 1884, 100000. This is 6
per cent of the nations income 70
war or its expenses. These tw
amounts added together give tota
D of $7O9,000,0 900. These are colossa
figures, but in comparison with tn
D following they are as electric ligh
to sunlight.
Medical science is authority fo
D the statement that out of the 80
100000 of people belonging to tn
United States S,O00.000 are doome
o to die OF consumption Without col
n sidering the cost these have been
Isl their parents, or thousands of hell
IT less orphans these deaths will sen
: to public institutions. or computin
the profits that would accrue If the
were allowed to live, and without r
ferring to the distress, despair ar
human agony accompanying the
u taking off, the amount in mere dc
n lars. incident to their demise,
AZ simply appalling.
1t Estimating that $4O0 must |
a spent upon each victim so afflicted
"a and the amount is often $4,000
and reckoning the burial expens