Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-23
TUBERCULOSIS NOTES.
Some Very Interesting Points Concerning
the Reapsrs Most Popular Weapon.

In Germany there are W public
sanatoria for adult coDsnmptives
with 10, $50 beds, bedsides 36 pri.
vate sanatoria with 2, IT'S beds
In 18 sanatoria for children with
tuberculosis there are S37 beds,
total of less than $4,000 beds.
In the United States there are
over 300 sanitaria with over Is, 900
beds, showing that this country Is
in the lead in the Anti Tuber ,u-
losjs war. France has only 12
sanatoria for adult conBumptives,
with 2 to5al capacity OF i48 beds.
All of these institutions are pri-
vate except the sanatorium at
Agincourt.
The United government operates
three tuberculosis eanatorlums,
one for soldiers and officers of the
regular army ut Fort Bayard, N.
NJ; one fer seamen IN the mer-
chant marine, and others employ
I'D In coast service of the govern
ment, not in the navy att Las Ami
mas, Col. The first hospital is
conducted by the department of
War; the second by the United
States Public Health and Marine
II spital Service, and the latter
by tha Navy Department.
On the basis of 10000 deaths
yearly from tuberculosis. in the
United States the National Asso-
citation fvr the Study and Pre-
vent;on of TubercuI osis computes
that there are 6S4 934 persons con-
staLtly sick with this disease.
Allowing only $500 as the average
earnings Of the workingman who
dies, the annual loss to the coun.
try from the ranks of labor alone,
IS over STA 100000 each year.
Prof. Karl Pearson's theory
shat the first born children of
marriage are more likely to fall
victims to consumption than the
latter-born offspring has been
freshly tested by PROF.. Wander
Velden Of Frankfgvt', .4olr matesi-
al furnished by Prof. RlffelI of
Karlsruhe, who shows from an
Investigation of $500 families
the fourth, fifth and sixth child,
rem are more liable to die Of tub
erculosls, than are the first, second
and third.
That poverty is a friend to con-
sumptl. is demonstrated by some
recent German statistics, which
show that of 10000 wsll-to.do
persons, 40 annually die of con-
sumption; Of the small number
only moderately well-to.do, 66;
Of the same numher really poor,
IT; and Of paupers, 81. Accord
lng to John Burns the famous
ErglIsb labor leader, 80 per cent.
of the COZ sumpsives in London
Fecaiv9 chariata ahle relief in their
homes.
According to United States Con-
sular repoTtc, the tuberculosis
death rate is twice IS large in
Syria and Turkey as it is in the
United States. There is only one
special hospital for this disease
in the entiEe Ottoman Empire.
National Anti-Tuherculosis As
sociations have recently been
formed in Russia and Greece.
similar organizations are now il
existance in the United States,
England. Germany. Sweden, Swift
7el land, Hungary. Italy and
France.
DR.. Belt on, the eminent French
vital statistlcian, has shown
that tuberculosis is twice as preva.
lent among the retail liquor deal.
ers of France as among other shop.
keepers. He attributes it to the
fact that the alcohol which the,
handle aud use all day long weak
ems their bodies and thus reudert
them more susceptible to the dis
ease germ.
Statistics published by the In
parial Gazette show that in recen1
years there has been a steady
decrease in the number of DEATH
! il Germany from tuberculosis
/ and especially from tabsrculosi
! of the lungs. In Urban center
! the death rate per 100000 fel
, from 1865 in 1908 TO 1872. is il
! 1908.
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