The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-01-28
TUBERCULOSIS NOTES.
The Fight Against Consumption
All Over the World.

The Fight Against Consumption /
All Over the World. !
According to a report issued
recently by the Local Govern |
meiV Board of London, the num- |
Der of deaths from tuberculosis {
in England and Scotland has
decreased by one-third in the ,
last so years, falling from 81 !
9l8 in 1853 to 80, during the
past year, while the death-rate
per 10, 600 of population has fall
len more than one-half, or from
1913 to lis. In Ireland, on the
contrary, the death-rate per TO-
600 has increased in 40 years
from "a to II. DR.. Arthur
Newsholme attributes the de-
crease in the mortality from con-
sumption in England to effective
segregation 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 tuber-
culosis to a combination of poor
housing, insufficient and I'M
nourlshlng food, bad sanitation,
especially in the schools, and the
large Irish emigration.
DIR. Maurice Fishberg is au-
thority for the statement that
the number of deaths from tu-
berculosis among the Jews is
from one-third that observed
among the non-Jewish popula-
ton around them and living in
the same urban environment.
DIR. Fishberg attributes this re-
markable 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 tu-
berculosis in the principal cities
of Brazil, the sanitary authori-
ties of that country have insti-
tuted a campaign involving the
expenditure of 81, 250,O00. The
project. includes the compulsory
reporting of every case of tuber-
culosis, the establishment of
hospitals, agricultural colonies,
and sanitoriums.
Nine deaths from tuberculosis
were caused during the last year
in the Department of Finance OF
New York City, due, it is claim.
ed, largely to infection from the
books and papers. After one OF
the book-keepers in the depart
ment died recently at his worl
from a hemorrhage caused by
consumption, the city health au
thorities closed the Office ant
made a thorough fumigation O.
the books and premises.
The National Commission Oh
Country Life is studying the san
itary condition of the farmers
and will lay special emphasis o.
tuberculosis al the rural dis
sticts.
Consumption costs the Unite
States 100000 lives of huma
beings, double that number Q
cows and live stock, and at leas
one billion dollars in none
every year.
Very few people use more tina
a small percentage of their lun
capacity, fact which tends
/ produce consumption, especial
in school children.
The negro mortality from tt
berculosis in the United State
is about $50 per cent. create
than that of the white people.
tuberculosis is much less con
mon among coal miners tina
among other classes of peopl
According to the United State
census statistics, miners ar
| quarrymen occupy third place
the scale of least tuberculos
mortality, only bankers ar
farmers being more immune.
DR.. S. A. Knopf says, ~ Gil
Iedisposedto tuberculosis shou
D. go " school before its eig
rear"
Flies are spreaders of cor
mption, by carrying the gerr
out from the sick to the we
he recent death from tube
psis of a three months {
y in Newark, N. j., born
Ioman who had been d
ged from a sanatorium
ying a fellow patient sho'
{ effect tubercular envirc
I will have. The faith
before the baby was boz
mother is dying.
health authorities
are endeavoring to ma
roads electrify their lir
the city. 1t is argu
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