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

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AT 10 O'Clock Tuesday morning in
ths Selwyn Hotel in Charlotte, the
North Carolina Convention for the
Prevention of tuberculosis, assembl-
ed. After the preliminaries we're
done in, due form the doctors plung-
ed into their subject with great earn
estness and zeal Space will per-
INIT Of only the gist of the arguments
In favor Of vigorous warfare
against the great white plauge."
Dr.. J. P. Monroe said Tuberculosis
is the greatest enemy of modern peo-
pie and that it must be exterminated.
3 he held out hope to the afflicted that
cures are possible.
DR.. Harper said that it is esti-
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
csn nation 55S people die daily of
the disease and that North Carolina
shares only too fully in the proper
tion.
It's courses are understood to be,
: hereditary tendency, lack Of sufici-
en-. clothing, living in infected houses
(which should be disinfected) lack Of
ventilation, lack of cleanliness, un-
sanitary invironment, lack Of
proper food. etc, which can
be summed up IN the term, Ignorance
: on the part Of the ieople as to the
nature of the disease and the means
of prevention and cure Of it.
Poverty was given as cause and
q result OF the malady.
The cost of the dread disease as
brought out is an eye opener. Whsn
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 this malady. Thus S1,6OO,-
100000 worth Of productive energy
is cut off from our nation every year.
The remedies advocated so unani.
morsiy and forcibly are popular edu-
cation on the subject, means Of treat
ment of patients and power to en-
force laws: of health.
y TO educate the people DR.. Williams
advocated small, well bound, neat
book Of about so pages, composed
an readable, attractive style, also q
smaller printed pamphlet as we'll as
Scfher forms of literature. These.
should be gotten up by the legisla-
ture and distributed by county CO.
operation. These books should be
tatSsgkt in the schools, the teacher
having had suitable training, and
also frequent lectures should be de-
Eyeled in the schools on the subject.
Hospitals, sanitaliuns 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 a 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
n 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
a $3.50, 600 annually. 1t is estimated
8too, that in a hospital or sanitarium
Hat cost Of SITS, the average life
s&of the afflicted would be 'lengthened
by ten years.
q 1t is a recognized fact that there
&&are chose who would not submit to
laws of safety to their fellow men
&sueh as burning all sputum and TAX
ling treatment where such could ef-
fectually benefit them and be q
means Of safety to others. In such
eases law and its proper execution
Ras thought a necessary expedient.
{ Among contributors Of papers, etc.,
were DR.. I. w. Faison, Charlotte; DR..
ID. E. Brooks, of Aberdeen; DR.. VIII
liam M. Jones. Of High Point; DR..
Westry Battle. U. S. N, DR.. W. j.
HcAnnally, of High Point; DIR. A.
10. Crowell, of Charlotte; DR.. James
ia. Burroughs. of Asheville; DR..
i Charles T. Harper. of Wilmington ;
be John Roy Williams, Of Green's
boro: DR.. w. n. Lambeth, of the
University of Virginia; DR.. Charles
Minor, and DR.. Paul .Paquin, Of
Asheyille.
What the Convention Was.
It was not "A doctors conventions.
$3The doctors were the leaders and
eeaehers, but the membership of the
North Carolina Society for the Pre-
Fenticn of Tuberculosis" is made up
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