Evening star., 1909-05-15
BROUGHT TO A CLOSE
Discussion of Prevention of
tuberculosis Ended.
SOME RECENT CAMPAIGNS
DR.. Homer Folks Tells Of Results
Obtained.
BEST METHODS TO PURSUE
Public Meeting Yesterday After
noon-Speaker Cannon Talks
Encouragingly.


it's meeting to close today. Interest in
today's session attached principally to
paper by DR.. Homer Folks of New York,
read before the sociological section, in
which he dealt with the subject of recent
tuberculosis campaigns and their results.
In the opinion of DR.. Folks the control
of tuberculosis is problem for the local
authorities. He emphasized this fact. and
said that the most effective work which
can be done by organizations is to follow
the example of the national association
in forming local organizations or commit
tees to take the responsibility Of securing
county and municipal control of the dis
ease. The organizer, he declared, must
spend time enough in each place to enable
hum to learn "who is who in the city.
This information must be obtained, he
said, not only from the political, religious
and social leaders, but also from the bar
ber the baker and the candlestick maker"
Then from his list of who Is who" he
must find out "who isn't who" and "who
is It," Not until he has done all this is he
prepared to proceed with his organization.
After the organization has been
launched, he said, those who are it, must
be elected to the offices. He said that
the committee must be brought to adopt
carefully worked-out program Of con-
structive measures, committing them to
secure the adoption of those measures as
rapidly as possible.
Complete Registration.
This program" he continued, Should
provide for more complete system OF
notification and registration of cases of
tuberculosis; for municipal or county
laboratory, where free sputum examina-
tion can be had by the physician; free
tuberculosis dlspensary at which indi-
vidual patients can receive medical atten-
tion and advice; visiting nurse who can
see that the advice is carried into effect
in the patients home; provision for
sending incipient cases to sanatoria;
local hospital for advanced cases: char
table agencies to see to 1t that while the
consumptive Is receiving hospital care he
can rest assured that his wife and chill
dren are provided for: enforcement OF
measures Of public hygiene and an edu
cational center from which a continuous
campaign of education can be conducted"
The machinery of the organization, he
declared, In order to accomplish the
greatest good, must be simple and direct.
easily understood and workable. But, he
said, until a genuine interest has been
fostered and until the new work has be-
come genuine problem to those appoint
ed on local committees not q great deal
can be expected Of these committees
Technical Papers Read.
In the pathological section various
papers were read, they In the main being
Of highly technical character. DR..
William B. Stanton, Philadelphia. took for
his subject THE Heart in One Hundred
Cases Dying from Advanced Tubercu-
losis"; DR.. Joseph Walsh. Philadelphia,
The Primary Location and Development
~ rtxAvs 1tr1 NcNo kl. 4
II. l.. Barnes. Wallum Lake, r. l., THE
Amount Of Lung Involvement at the
Onset of Pulmonary tuberculosis
Yesterdays Session.
At a great public meeting held in the
ballroom of the New Willard yesterday
afternoon hopeful messages were received
from two of the greatest scientists fol-
lowing the study of tuberculosis, and two
men whose position in the world of lesis-
lature and state affairs is Of the highest.
DR.. William Osler of Baltimore and Ok
ford and DR.. William Welch Of Philadel-
phia spoke of the results of the war on
the white plague as it appeared to those
directly on the firing line, and Speaker
Cannon and Ambassador Bryce gave their
views as spectators of the war.
There was an air of hope and cheerful
ness about the whole meeting. despite the
speeches heard in some of the section
meetings which have declared that tuber-
culosis has not been stamped out one
whit. Dr. Oser is strongly in favor of
making every single person in the world
soldier in the war, and urges that every
one should give money to aid in the fight.
Anything-a dime or a dollar-Will helm
Just SO much toward obtaining the re-
suits that medical men promise if they are
aided In this way.
Speaker Cannon Tells of Old Times.
Speaker Cannon, when asked to ap-
pear. told the committee:
Tuberculosis. Yes, I don't know any,
thing about tuberculosis. I'd be glad to
talk"
Whether he knew anything about it or
not, the audience was more than simply
pleased to see him and to hear him tell
OF old country doctors when he was a
boy
When Speaker Cannon was introduced
the audience settled beck willing to lis
ten. apparently, for a long time They
applauded him and called him 'IJncle
joe Then he started in to apologize
for presuming to appear before the men
been to birthday party and had taken
two drinks of water. At which. of course,
there was much laughter. Then he shook
his fist at DR.. Osler and said he was over
sixty years old. At which there was
more laughter.
The Speakers tale OF fresh air con-
ditions on the banks of the Wabash
spelbound They did not know what was
coming next. and DeUn1e all nyer bo