Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-30

Sis NOTES
The Fight Against Consumption
All around the World.

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In order to show that splitting on
the sidewalks is dangerous to
health. an investigation has been
made by DR.. John Robertson, Med
ical Health Officer of Birmingham,
England, which shows that seven
per cent of the "spits" collected in
public places contained consumption
germs. On the other hand the dust
collected from the floors of the cot
tages of the Adirondack Cottage
Sanitarium has been found to be free
of tuberculosis germs, showing that
a careful consumptive is not dan
gerous.
Consul-General George Horton
has made a report from Athens on
the conspicuous work Of Greek ply
sicians IN combating the country's
two chief scourges-malarial fever
and tuberculosis. An animal aver
age of 1000 persons die each year
from the former, while in epidemic
years, due to excessive rains, the
number exceeds 5000, which was
the case in 1905. The population
of Greece is 2,433, 1906. The people
have been interested through lee
lures, pamphlets, etc., to fight the
malaria carrying mosquito by
draining stagnant ponds and throw
ing petroleum on them. A tuber-
culosis congress will be held in
Athens next year, to which will be
invited not only physicians, but all
the mayor and other prominent
people Of Greece.
Under legislation enacted in 1905
the Danish Government pays three
fourths of the expense of all persons
who desire to be treated in tuber-
culosis sanatoria. When the hospi-
tails under constructions are COM
pleted, Denmark will have one bed
IN tuberculosis hospitals or sana-
toria for every 1900 inhabitants, a
fact which will mean that the
length Of treatment can be consid-
erab1y extended. In the United
Sattes there is one bed for every
1850 inhabitants.
Efforts are being made in Bull
garia to abolish the numerous mon
asteries and converts of the Greek
Catholic Church and to use their
buildings and revenue for the es-
tablisnment and maintenance of tu-
bercuIosis sanatoria. King Ferdi-
nand has given 100000 francs for
the erection of national sanator-
ium. The death rate from tuber-
culosis in Bulgaria is very nigh,
being 81 for every 10000 living.
The compulsory state system of
sickness insurance instituted in 1884
in Germany has proved a powerful
factor in combating tuberculosis.
No less powerful have been the
public sanatoria, the number of
beds in which have increased dur
ing the past fifteen years from 243
to 8.422. Of the 200 tuberculosis
sanatoria and hospitals in Germany
IS are supported by the carriers of
sickness insurance. The statistics
Of the Imperial insurance depart
ment show, that as many as AZ per
cent of the number of persons treat
ed in these institutions remained
in good working health five years
after being dismissed from the san
| atorium.
London has three open-air schools
for tuberculous children. Similar
institutions have been established
in the United States in Providence,
Boston, New York, Pittsburg
Chicago, Hartford, Conn.,, Brook.
line, Mass, Rochester, N. Y.
A significant phase of the cam.
paign against tuberculosis in Swe.
den is the establishment, by vari.
Gus industrial concerns, of sana.
toria for tubercular workmen from
their own factories. The VULGAR
Match Company, the Ljusne-Voxne
Timber Company, the Sandwich
Hardware Company, the Erickson
Telephone Company and the Stor;
Kopparsberg Company are among
those who maintain such institu
tions, each accommodating from fiji
teen to thirty patients. At thes'
sanatoria the workmen are received
free, and their families may b.
admitted for small charge.
A bill will be brought before tn
new British Parliament. calling 70
steps to be taken to prevent tn
high mortality from tuberculosis il
Ireland. The bill will demand tn
compulsory notification and regis
tratiOn If t,,boronlocic cococ ~