Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-02

THE FIGHT AGAINST CONSUMPTION ALL
ovRR THE WORLD.

by the Local Government Board OF Lon
don, the number of deaths from tuber-
culosis In England and Scotland has de-
creased by one-third In the last 30 years,
falling from 81, 91S In 1858 to SO, 746 dur
Ing the past year, while the death-rate
per 1000 of population has fallen more
than ne-half, or from 1913 to 11.6. In
Ireland, on the contrary, the death.rate
per 1000 has increased In 40 years from
| "a to ~. DR.. Arthur Newsholme attri-
butes the decrease In the mortality from
consumption in England TO effective seq
regation and institutional treatment OF
the advanced cases of the disease, which
are known to be the centres Of infection
and spread of tuberculosis. The Irish
medical authorities attribute the increase
In the amount of tuberculosis to COM
bInation Of poor housing, insufficient
and unnourishing food, bad sanitation,
especially In the schools, and the large
Irish emigration.
DR.. Maurice Fishberg is authority for
the statement that the number Of deaths
from tuberculosis among the Jews Ia
| from one-third that observed among the
non-J ewish population around them and
living in the same urban environment.
DR.. Fishberg attributes this remarkable
vitality of the Jews, and their immunity
to sickness In general, to the fact that
they have been for over 1000 years
dwelling in the city and are thus able to
Withstand more than their neighbors.
As a means of checking tuberculosis In
the principal cities of Brazil, the sanitary
authorities of that country have institut.
ed a campaign involving the expenditure
of 81, 250,0O0. The project includes the
compulsory reporting of every case OF
tuberculosis, the establishment of hos
pitfalls, agricultural colonies, and sani'
forums.
Nine deaths from tuberculosis were
caused during the last year in the De-
partment of Finance of New York City,
due, 1t is claimed, largely to infection
from the books and papers. After one
of the bookkeepers in the. department
died recently at his work from hemor
rhage caused by consumption, the city
health authorities closed the Office and
made thorough fumigation of the books
and premises.
The National Commission on Country
Life is studying the sanitary condition
OF the farmers, and will lay special en-
phasis on tuberculosis in the rural dis.
tricts.
Consumption costs the United States
20O, 900 lives of human being, double thai
number of COWS and live stock, and al
least one billion dollars in money every
year.
Very few people use more than q
small percentage of their lung capacity
fact which tends to produce consump
ton, especially in school children.
The negro mortality from tuberculosis
in the United States is about $50 pei
cent greater than that Of the white
people.
tuberculosis is much less common
among coal miners than among Other
classes OF people. According to the
United States census statistics, miners
and quarrymen occupy third place in the
scale of least tuberculosis mortality, only
bankers and farmers being more immune
| LIE. .. a. huOpt bdyos Cuio pro
disposed to tuberculosis should not 60 tc
school before its eighth year."
Flies are spreaders of consumption
by carrying the germs about from the
sick to the we'll.
The recent death from tuberculosis Of
three months old baby in Newark, n
j., born to a woman who had been dis
charged from sanatorium for marrying
a fellow patient shows what effect tuber'
cular environment will have. The father
died before the baby was born. The
mother Is dying.
The health authorities of Chicago are
endeavoring to make the railroads cleo
trify their lines within the city. It il
argued that 1900 pounds of SCOT pei
acre In year are deposited in some por
tions of the city by the soft coal used
The publication of the air and increase
in sunlight secured by electriicatior
would materially lessen the amount Of
tuberculosis.