Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-04
ENTHUSIASM BEING SHOWN II
THE MEETING NOW At
WASHINGTON.
Many Eminent Men Are Taking Part
In the Meeting and Giving Their
Views On the Question-New York
Leads in the Fight On Public Ex.
pectoration.
Colonization Suggested.


ter of Louisville before the Sociolo-
gical section of the National Assoc
iation for the Prevention of Tuber-
culosis, now in it's sixth annual meet
ing His subject was the best kind
of employment for tuberculosis cases,
who. when discharged from hospitals
and sanitoria relapse into their form
err condition because of bad invirOn-
ment.
DR.. Forster demonstrated that the
present machinery in the anti-tubercu-
losis campaign, was inadquate, and
that it did not provide for the tuber-
culosis sufferers at the most critical
time in his existence-when he left
the sanitorium or hospital. In view
of this fact, he advocated that institu-
tions in which tuberculosis cases were
treated should be equipped with large
farms upon which the convalescent
| consumptives might learn the ruda.
ments of agriculture. He stated that
in his opinion farming was the most
| suitable work that cured consump-
tive could attempt.
Dr. Forster therefore advocated that
| large colonies of consumptives gath
cred from sanitoria in all parts of the
| United States should be formed in the
| southwest on land which could be fr-
| rigated with comparatively little ex-
! pense and that here they should live
and work for the rest Of their lives.
Outdoor Schools a Cure.
Washington. May 3.-Every city
should have one or more outdoor
schools, declared DR.. Henry Farnum
Stoll of Hartford, Conn.,, in paper
| read today before the Sociological
section of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tub
situations for all delicate, so.called
scrofulous or anaemic children, and
those with tuberculosis of the bones,
who are now in ordinary schools. He
advised also the universal use of the
skin tuberculin test in the kinder
garten and lower grades to detect
cases Of unrecognized tuberculosis.
DR.. Stoll declared that 20 to 40
per cent of school children in large
cities are infected with tuberculosis,
This infection took place usually In
the home and not in the school, but
the badly ventilated school room, by
lowering the child's vitality, allowed
the germs to become active. In proof
of this statement DR.. Stoll referred
to 147 children recently examined by
him in which the question of exposure
to tuberculosis in the home was very
carefully investigated. BY the use OF
tuberculin it was ascertained that 79
per cent of the children from tuber
culous homes were infected as against
only PIG per cent of those from sup
posedly healthy homes 1t was also
found that so per cent of the frai]
children from healthy homes, had the
germs of the disease, but that only 13
per cent of the robust children from
similar homes were thus affected.
Infected Milk Not Dangerous.
Washington, May 3.-Only two and
one-half per cent of all tuberculosis in
New York City comes from infected
milk. butter or meat fro mbovine
sources, according to the statement
made by Dr. William H. Park of that
city today before the Pathological
section of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention Of Tubercu-
losis, at it's sixth annual meeting.
Moreover, said DR.. Park. this small
| percentage is found mainly in the
children. In other words, pulmonary
tuberculosis among adults IL contract
ed solely from human beings. and is
| not the result of impure milk or
| foods.
DR.. Park supported throughout his
paper the contention advanced by
DR.. Robert Koch of Berllni. the dis
coverer of the tuberculosis germ,
! when he stood practically alone in
declaring that cattle did not trans
nit pulmonary tuberculosis to human
beings.
The significance of these cOnclus-
ions, it was pointed out, will be to
direct all the energy of the campaign
against tuberculosis to combating the
spread of this disease among human
beings, by preventing splitting. bad
housing overyork and other condi-
tions bad for the health.
Anticipating Crusade.
Washington, May 3-Roughly
speaking. 25,O0O,OOO people have been
forbidden to expectorate in public
places, and in 1909. only 3.421 arrests
for violation of these anti-spitting or
dinances were made This fact indi-
Gates to Robert J. Newton, secretary
of the Municipal Commission on TIL
berculosis of St. Louis that the laws
and ordinances forbidding splitting
are not enforced except in few
cities, and there only occasionally.
Mr.. Newton's paper on '"The En-
forcement of Anticipating Laws"