The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-04-15
TUBERCULOSIS LECTURE
DRAWS BIG CROWD
DR.. Hoiton Of the State Board Of Health
Delivered Lecture, Which Was
Illustrated by Stereop-
ticon.

That the people Of Barre are alive TO
the situation was plainly demonstrated
last evening by the large number that
visited the tuberculosis exhibit which
i being held at Miles hall under the
auspices cf the state board Al health
Not only are they alive 70 the situation
but from eoHversasio heard il the hall
they seem willing to embrace the oppor-
tnnity and assist the state board OF
health in the campaign Of education
which it Is carrying On throughout the
state.
Many people visited tho exhibit yes
teFday forenoon and still more in the
afternoon. In the afternoon the schol-
ars Of the sth and 9Th grades Of the
public schools visited the exhibit. The
hall was filled last evening and at the
hour appointed for the Lecture every
available seat in the hall was occupied
and many people were standing.
Or. D. n. Stone of Burlington was
scheduled 10 speak last evening. but
owing 10 the delay in getting to Barre
nas unable to appear on time and DR..
II. d Hoiton Of Brattleboro. secretary
Of the state board Of health. gave an
interesting explanatory talk on the pic
lures that were projected onto the
screen by powerful stereopticon.
Consumption, he said, causes more
deaths than any other disease; in fact
one-third OF the deaths in the United
States are the result OF tuberculosis in
one form or another. The state of Ver-
mont alone loses each year in money
value at least one million dollars as the
result of deaths from consumption, plac
ing the value Of human life at fair
basis from financial standpoint. Not
only the loss Of the lives of the victims
themselves should be reekoned with but
the loss to their surviving relatives.
eThere are at present at least $500
consmmptives iii Vermont and have been
for several years Az fast It's the vic
Tins of this disease die others develop
1t iii their places. This il what we wish
to overcome and we must do something
To stamp out the disease. Besides the
actual financial loss which these deaths
cause there il the anguish and The loss
OF loved ones which we are powerless to
comfort and it is these losses that we
hope te prevent Ia the future.
maps were displayed, showing the
number Of deaths per year per 10000
population In Vermont. These maps
show that the range of deaths from the
disease ranges from I7.2 In Washington
county to al iii Rutland county.
Consumption, said DR. Holton, is tu-
berculosis Of the lungs and it has been
Learned id recent years that so-called hip
disease Il tuberculosis of the hip joint.
The reason for the attack Of this dis
ease at this particular part Of the body
il that there are large quantity Of
tissues ait this Joint which are of low
vitality.
Consumption is caused BY the poison
which Is present in the sputun of con-
stsmptives. The consunptiye earelessIy
spits and this is dried and blown around
in the form Of dust and thus gets into
the lungs Of another person. We are
all liable to get the disease in this way
Or. Koch was the discoverer Of the
tubercnlar bacilli, discovering 1t after
many years Of study and research. Tu.
bercular baeilli are vegetable growths,
invisible to the naked eye, without these
bacilli consumption could not exist.
The power Of some persons is such
that they can throw off these germs,
but IN other cases the condition Of the
tissues IS such that the persons become
victims OF the disease In normal con
dition the glands seerete a fluid which
destroys the germs as fast as they find
lodgment and no harm results Iuher-
culosis iy net hereditary in the sense
that it was once thought to be, and it
is impossible to have the disease unless
the mucous membranes are in such con-