Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-27
TUBERCULOSIS MEET
Convention He'd In Charlotte
Organize fer determination
Plan A VIGOROUS WARFARE
Assembled to Make War on tie Great
81 White Plague, It's
Prevalence. ccstliness and Fatality
Remedies Pointed Out.

AT 10 o'clock Tuesday morning in
the Selwyn Hotel in Charlotte, the
North Carclins Convention for the
Prevention Of tuberculosis, assembl-
ed. After the preliminaries were
done in due form the doctors plung-
ed into their subject with great earn
estness and zeal. Space will per-
unit Of only the gist Of the arguments
In favor of vigorous warfare
against the great white plauge."
Dr.. y. p. Monroe said Tuberculosis
IS the greatest enemy of modern peo-
pie and that it must be exterminated.
( BE held out hope TO the afflicted that
cures are possible.
Dr.. Harper said that it is esti-
s mated that tuberculosis fatalities ex-
ceed those of war, famine, plague
cholrea, yellow fever and smallpox,
all combined.
It was set forth that even in our
own nation 55S people die daily of
the disease and that North Carolina
shares only too fully in the proper
tion.
Its courses are understood to be,
Z hereditary tendency lack of sufici-
ent clothing, living in infected houses
(which should be disinfected) lack of
ventilation, lack of cleanliness, un-i
sanitary invironment, lack Of
proper food. etc, which can
be summed up in the term, Ignorance
! on the part of the people as to the
nature of the disease and the means
of prevention and cure Of it.
Poverty was given as q cause and
9 result OF the malady
The cost of the dread disease as
brought out is an eye opener. When
1T Is considered what is the average
earning capacity Of victims, together
with costs of treatment while linger-
ing, an average estimate of $4,000
each is placed. Probably 100000
people die in the United States every.
year of .his malady. Thus 81 ,600,-
O0Qa00 worth Of productive energy
ia cut of from our nation every year.
The. remedies advocated so unaEi.
monsiy and forcibly are popular edu-
cation on the subject, means Of treat
ment of patients and power to en-
force laws of health.
~ To educate the people DE-. Williams
advocated a small, well bound, neat
book Of about SO pages, composed
IN readable, attractive style, also
smaller printed pamphlet as well as !;
Scsher forms Of literature. These
should be- gotten up by the legisla-$
ture and distributed by county CO.
operation. These books should be
taught in the schools, the teacher
having had suitable training, and
also frequsnt lectures should be de-
Gyered in the schools on the subject.
Hospitals, sanitariuns and colonies
Seem to be the means of. treatment
for infected. These, it was set forth,
should be maintained partly at least
by taxation in order that no one
would wait too long to apply for
help through feeling Of dependency
hut could claim it as right.
To any objection on che score Of
costliness is rebutted the immense
loss now sustained by the ravages of
the disease.
A city like Wilmington it was es-
timated, would have about 80 deaths
= year. The cost of the sickness and
death, together with the earnings Of
these persons in normal condition
and average life being about $4,000
would bring the city's loss up to
$640, 900 annually. It is estimated
stoo, that in hospital or sanitarium
at cost of SITS, the average life
&of the afflicted would be heightened
by ten years.
i It is a recognized fact that there
kare those who would not submit to
Alaws of safety to their fellow men
Bsleh as burning all sputum and tax
ling treatment where such could eff
afectualiy, benefit them and be a
means Of safety to others. In such
leases law and its proper execution
Ras thought a necessary expedient.
Among contributors Of papers, etc.,
AITere DR.. I. w. Faison, Charlotte; DR..
&p. E. Brooks. Of Aberdeen; DR.. VIII
jam M. Jones of High Point; DR..
Is Westry Battle. q. S. N, DR.. W. ].
3HcAnnally, of High Point; DIR. A.
~. Crowell, of Charlotte; DR.. JameaaT
Burroughs, Of Asher
|Charles 7. HavT gton;;
aDf Jnt ...nams 81 Green's
2boro; E. Lambeth, Of the
Mgniyerslty of Virginia; Dr.. Charles
Minor, and Dr.. Pau .Paquin, Of
sheville.
ID What the Convention Was.
8 It was not a doctors convention.
5Fhe doctors were the leaders and
teachers, but the membership of the
81 s2yorth Carolina Society for the Pre-
3vention Of Tnbcrculosis" is made up
25R,,P oIl tho citizcps IN the State who