The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-17
ENGLAND STARTS
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
THE WHITE PLAGUE
JOHN BURNS THE MODERN ST,
GEORGE WHO GOES FORTH TO
STAY DRAGON.

LONDON, June l6.-The government
has taken up a campaign against tuu-
erculosis which promises TO make it
before long almost as rare as small
poX or typhus fever. The st. George
VINO has sailed forth to sIay this
modern dragon is Jonn Burns, the
eX-dock laborer who is now a Cabinet
Minister and friend of the King. He
is seeking fresh legislation, but he is
not waiting for that He has lust
foreshadowed a policy by which he
proposes, with the weapons ready to
his hand, to remove the most danger
GUS source of infection-the pauper
consumptiye-from the possibility OF
being a source of contagion to his
family and neighbors
Public opinion is not ripe yet in
England for the compulsory isolation
of consumptiyes in the way that per-
sons who are stricken with smallpox
are dealt with, although medical opin-
ion is practically unanimous that such
treatment is necessary before the dis
ease can be wholly eradicated But
John Burns, the practical man. has de-
vised a means by which this end can
be achieved without outraging that
false but strong sentiment which re-
CARDS isolation as an invasion of the
! liberty of the individual He is now
preparing to put in practice, by admin
istrative order, a RUE by which 80 per
cent of the poor consumpuyes of the
country will be compelled to enter the
public infrmaries, where, of course,
they will be effectively isolated, Will
have every possible chance of recov-
cry, and will no longer be danger to
their fellows,
Burns plan is based on the fact
= that 80 per cent Of the pauper consump-
tives in England, at one stage of an
other OF their disease, are compelled
to seek what is known as out relief
from the poor law authorities Out
relief consists of a weekly dole of
money from the public fund, which is
given to persons who are not absolute
ly destitute, and who are DESTROYS OF
keping out OF the wOrkhOuse.
In the case OF consumptiyes it en-
= abIes the patient to make himself
center of infection. Burns first step,
, therefore, mas been to issue an order,
= as president of the Local Government
Board, making tuberculosis notitiable
disease. This means that every me-
deal man VINO comes across case of
consumption in his practice must re-
} mort the name and address and certain
l other particulars concerning the pa
| tient to the representative of the Lo-
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I NAV or may not he equally reliable;
u but I have sustained that Iortion OF
q II in consultation with other medical
men in this city. He told me that
+ pineapples are now being used in al
t most every hospital of the United
States
do not know what is in them, but
. there is something in them that, In
=. the case of persons convalescing from
fevers, acts as a tonic and recuper-
\ ative: and they are used today as an
I article of absolute necessity They are
i used at the home and at the tireside
of the American consumer. They are
II used in the tenement districts of New
York. They are in universal use to-
u day wherever people can purchase
II them at the prices that now obtain
n And the proposition TO protect mar
row strip of land, consisting of a few
Il hundred acres in a single State of this
II Union, and TO absolutely keep out {
Il product that is necessary for the Anne
81 rican consumer, is one that l thinl
a will not be tolerated, even by the pro
81 tectiouists of this body. | have n,
idea that a Senator upon this side o
I the Chamber will arise in his plac
y and say TO a Democratic constituency
II 81 have gone beyond the Senator iron
Y Rhode Island in my principles of pro
II hibiiye protection"