The daily sentinel., 1910-05-04
burg. Kansas City and Spokane. 81

burg. Kansas City and Spokane. 81
each"
Mr.. Newton considers the small
fine OF 81 to So more effective than
the larger amounts imposed. Mr..
Newton thinks that the lax enforce
ment in most cities is owing to the
fact that the police will not enforce
the ordinance because they regard 1t
merely as intended to abate a minor
nuisance.
Thehealth officers enforce the law
more effectively, he said, because in
doing so they feel that they are
working for the prevention of the
spread of disease. The real funda-
mental reason for the non-enforce-
ment of splitting ordinances. Mr..
Newton declared, is a lack of civic
pride and a failure to appreciate the
dangers of unTestrained splitting.
Among the suggestions given for
enforcing the anti-spitting ordinan-
ces were publicity, posting ordinan-
ees' frequent raids on spitters and
the appointment of special officers for
this purpose.
The colonization OF consumptiyes
in the southwest was advocated bv
DR.. A. M. Forster of Louisville, His
subject was the best kind of employ-
ment for tuberculosis cases. who.
when discharged from hospitals and
sanitaria, relapse into their former
condition because of bad environ
ment
Dr. Forster demonstrated that the
present machinery in the anti-tuber-
eulosls campaign was inadequate and
that IL did
herculosis sufferer at the most crit
ical time in his existence-wbep he
LETT the sanitorium or hospital. In
view of this fact, he advocated that
institutions in which tuberculosis
cases were treated should be eouipped
with large farms upon which the con-
valescent consumptives might learn
the rudiments of agriculture. He
stated that. in his opinion, farming
was the most suitable work that a
cured consumptive could attempt.
DR.. Forster therefore advocated
that large colonies of consumntives
gathered from sanatoria in all parts
OF the United States should he
formed in the southwest on land that
could be irrigated with comparatively
little expense. and that there thev
should live and work for the rest of
their lives.
In his paper. read before the asso-
clatlon, DR.. Henry Farnum Stoll of
Hartford, Conn, declared that every
city should have one or more outdoor
schools. He recommended such in
stltutions for all delicate, so-called
scrofulous or anaemic children and
those with tuberculosis of the bones.
VINO 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 unrecognizable tuberculosis.
Dr Stoll declared that 20 to 40 per
cent OF school children in large cit
les are infected with tuberculosis
rms injection took place usually in
the home and not in the school. but
the badly ventilated school room. Inv
lowering the child's vitality, allowed
lhe germs to become active In his
PROOF OF this statement DR.. Stoll re-
lerred TO 147 children recently ex-
amined by him, in which the question
OF exposure to tuberculosis in the
hoine was very carefully investigated
by the use of tuberculin 1t was as
certalhed that 79 per cent of the
chlldren from tuberculous homes
We're 1nrected, as against only 26
per cent of those from supposedly
heaithy homes. II was also found
that 80 per cent of the frail children
from healthy homes had the germs of
the disease, but that only 13 per cent
of the robust children from similar
homes were thusaffected.
j. w. Douthitt, field man for the