The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-02-19

NHlSuO. luDClCuiOSlS Is CutCu. w
md you and you. three out of six, five
'ul of ten of you present are living
aud happ, proof of the fact Why d.
we-no, die nf il? Our resistance saws
=. The Wa, 10 keep well is 10 iav. ),
iight side OF life 10 look upon: sutfi
teuI work of reasonable hours; tim,
,"r recreaiion; money for It's cost. ana
he cost Of plenty Of good food and
nealthful homes. Shorter hours anu
better pay, The full dinner pail, as
'gainst long hours and poor pay. thu
read line. The cure comes from the
anne condilinns. Infection from Op
"o>lte But we are IOld that this il
disease of civlliZal ion, cruwding IL
Cries. poor air. poor lights, ,enamehi
nuu>es and The sweat shops. But due.
NiuZalIon mean This? Are cOndi
ions helter or worse than formerl,
from the standpoint of health? IL the
lch gel richer are lie poor poorer?
rriainly the latter Is not true.
Whartv'l use organized Ia bOr has don"
iras certainty rlered he averag,
'"rk da, aud raised The average sal
~ us rnfiuegce has alsn been feii
aIuIhg an Insisting demand fOi
aid labor aud school laws which pre-
vent unhealthy employment Of The
immature and inSures IA certain amount
of time spent on education.
IL the rich are getting richer they
see that it pDs 70 have happy and
'raIlhl labor. The expense of glass
windows, ventilating apparatus, rest;
teading aud lunch rooms Of 80 manv
OF the great Wholesale, retail aud
manufacturing establishments Ger
Iainly minister TO Increased resistance.
he modern tenement house for heai.
iighI, air and means of cleanliness has
ht Kings palace of 200 years ago eX-
celled in everv way. and his 18th cen.
fury royal Highness had nowhere near
the variety nor purity Of food this un-
ionized eXcellency tue American labor
er enjoys. But if you are still OF tile
opinion that the good old times were
superior from the standpoint Of this
discussion it should be sufficient to add
that in the last 20 years with our in-
creasing civilization tuberculosis has
decreased 80 TO As per cent, All this
has been gained with only evolution.
ary gradual changes in our social and
industrial life and attitude toward the
disease. Mathematics will show how
soon under such conditions the dis
ease would be eradicated entirely.
Only recently has the revolution be-
gun, The active conscious, ordinate
interest of the whole people led. az
should be the case, by the organized
medical profession. With the whole
mass OF people thinking, talking and
reading about the prevention aud cure
of This disease, as much should be ac-
complshed in the next as in the pre-
ceeding % years and think the out
look is even better than that. II as a
result of these tuberculosis exhibits,
the people of the range and all Mime
sofa get some clean facts about the
disease and stop at that, these meet
ings are a failure. If this movement
leads to better conditions of life in in
dividual homes they have only partial
ly succeeded. 1t is hoped that those
influenced by this movement will not
only make their own positions more
secure but let their influence be a part
OF a part of public sentiment that
will make it not only possible but
compulsory for every family to main
tain proper preventive or recuperative
conditions. How? Let me quote from
recent article which shows how
The article begins thus and suggests a
new era OF usefulness for the medical
men, hospitals. lodges. labor unions
and any benevolent societies or indi-
.viduals. DIR. Richard Cabot, of BOs.
ton, in his first annual report of the
Social Service Dept. of the Mass Gen.
Hosp. quotes from Alice in Wonder
land:
Have some wine," said the halter.
II don't see any wine," said Alice,
"There isn't any," said the halter
DR.. Cabor says that scenes suggest
ing this conversation between Alice
and the halter had been enacted many
times every week in the Out Patient
Dept. of the Mass. Gen. Hosp. A pa.
iient comes TO be eXamined; after
looking him over the physician says:
Take vacation, get a lighter job,
get set of teeth" But among the
most of the patients who swarm the
CHIMES of that great hospital the DR..
might as well say: Get the moon, or
have a STAR" for they are too poor roo
afford the remedies prescribed or too
ignorant to use them. A man wiz.
visit the hospital suffering from no
other debility than hunger and this Is
an actual case that he needs a tonic.
A poor woman comes in suffering
from tuberculosis the DOCTOR says:
You must stop work. you must sleep
out of doors, you must have especially
nutritious food" But like Alice, she
doesn't see any and there isn't any.
She has no money to provide sleeping