The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23
MAKE FIGHT ON BACTERIA English Doctors in a
 Discussion. SIR ALMRoTH WRIGHT SPEAKS Emigration Problem Considered by
 Jews. Cenauestion Ia Cifses of The United states May Be ReguIated--
 Mere Bss Steamers oa
 Atlantic.
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 London, May 22.--sir Almroth Wright, the discoverer of the system of fheraputic incoulation delivered an address of profound interest and importance before the members of the Authors Club at a dinner given in his honor last Monday night. The title he gave to his discourse was .Immunization Against Disease" pr. Wright said that we wanted to congratulate ourselves upon our ci- yilization being complete, and 1t was more or less of make-beileve Take for instance. bacteria. which were among the newly discovered things of the world. Man had not yet come to an appreciation of their role in life. and he would have to learn to fight them Their role was . very formid- able one. Bacteria were not respon- sibie only for the epidemic diseases, which in the case of plaques carri- year before last. We thought we had conaured them by sanitation. As matter of fact. we had only been fighting against one very small DOT ton of infective disease.
 We had got the better of small-pox. typhoid. and dysentery. which carried away very few people in England or America. These were not the really serious ills of life produced by bac- teria. The most serious were not the epidenic dfseases. but the chronic dis- seases. Everybody was either the subject or was going to be the sup feet of bacterial disease. These for- ces we had not got under control. ana they would have to be got out of the way before we could consider our civ- Iixation complete. Bacterial and in- fections diseases ought not to be ig-
 The great task civilization had was to get rid of them or hold them in check. The broad general principle remained that it was useless 10 iooh to drugs to kill microbes n the inter- for of the body. The method of ex- tirpating them by the knife would fin- aliy be given up. We had got in im- munization a means in the body It. self for killing bacteria on. We could increase the natural resistance of the body to vaccine when we knew the doses and the character Of tne nni- crobes. Having increased the resists~ce we could by surgery and hot poultices bring anti-bs cteriai agents to work in inc particular places where the mi- orobes were. Tn his opinion, that would ultimately be the treatment or paeter. iai disease. ..aa
 Dr. Tom Robinson. who presided, remarked that he could not fonow .sa S,a Almroth wright in saying that tho drugs physicians gave were injurious. He himself got his living by writing prescriptions.
 doubt the prescriptions do great deal of good, but 1t is indirectly, ana not by killing the microbea
 ll Problem of Emigration.
 An. irnnortant project is now under dieclission in Jewish circles for deaI- ing with the ever-growing problem of the emigration from Eastern Flu rope to America. It is recognized that the tide of emigration which aoated somewhat last year owing to the In. dustriai depression in the United States, will soon regume It's former dimensions. particularly as the eco" Anomic conditions of the Jews in Rus- sla. Roumania. and Galicia are becon- ing worse. But although emigration to the United States which attract about so per cent. of the emigrants from Europe, is regarded as inevitable it can hardly provide a satisfactory solution of the problem so long as the Incoming Jews crowd into the already conRested Ghettos of New York, Phi- iadeiphia, Boston, and other cities.
 The .proposai has therefore e;rra, 5sen ,sen Into mtoe the .s1s States @ should be so regulated as to empty itself in those countries which provide reliable prospects Of employment, and the work of regula. tion should be undertaken py an III" ternationai organization, with bran" ches in ell the principle countries af- fected by the question.
 A start has already been made by | fine establishment Tn New York. few | months ago of the American Jewish Society for the Regulation of lmmi- | gration@
 A representative of this society, Mir. D. Dayidowitch, who has already secured support for the scheme in | several American cities has now come | to London to assist in the formation of a similar society, and hopes to win the approval of the authorities of such institutions as the Jewish Board of Guardians and the Jews Tenn porary Shelter.
 Israel zangwill. president of the Jewish Territorial Organization. which has lately been diverting the stream of Americans bound emigration to Gal- weston. Is in hearty sympathy with the proposal, and 1t is expected that he will discuss the subject with Jacob T. Schiff the well-known phiIanthro- pist. who will shortly be here on a visit, with view to conyening A Congress of Jewish representatives. to law down the general lines of work of the proposed international orgaDiza-
 ton.
 As there are influential societies aI-
 ready at work on the Continent, par
 icularly in Russia, Germany and
 Austria, in aiding the progress of the
 Jewish emigrant from his home to
 hIs destination. the task of compiet-
 ing the International Organization