Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-03
ADULTS ARE IMMUNE
FROM INFECTED MILK
TUBERCULOSIS EXPERT COMES
TO DEFENSE OF TueERcuLAR
RoVlNEs.
CHILDREN MAY CONTRACT
DISEASE FROM ANIMALS
Tuberculosis Association Hears At
tack on Nebraska and Oklahoma
Laws-Danser in Spread of Maiady
Comes Largely From Human Beings,
Medical Men Declare.


Washington, May 3.-Whesher tub
erculosis is caused by milk or meat
from bovine sources and what may be
the best employment for tubercuar pa
tients, were the chief subjects discuss
ed today at the session of the National
tuberculosis Association. The discus
sion on the former subject was start
ed by DR.. William tH. Park. of New
ster, of Louisville Ky.
Park held that pulmonary tuberculo-
sis among adults is not the result OF
impure milk or foods. DIR. S. Adolphus
knopf New York, attacked the Me-
braska law which requires INDECENT
consumptives to submit to serum treat
ment, and also the action of the Ok
lahoma state board of medical exami-
ners which forbids any physician to
practice in the state if he is suffering
or has suffered in the past from tuber-
culosis.
Only Small Per Cent From Milk.
Only two and one-half per cent of all
tuberculosis in New York City comes
from infected milk butter or meat from
bovine sources, according to the state
ment made by DR.. William II. Park or
that city today before the pathological
section of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis. Moreover. said DR.. Park. this
small percentage is found mainly In
children. In other words pulmonary
I,rIt ic nvrfr (Nf-
ed selely from human beings. and is
not the result Of impure milk or foods.
DR.. Park supported throughout this
paper the contention advanced by DIR.
Robert Koch of Berlin. the discovery
of the tuberculosis germ, when he
stood practically alone In declaring
that cattle did not transmit pulmon-
ary tuberculosis to human beings.
The significance of these conclusions,
it was pointed out, will be to direct all
the energy of the campaign against
tuberculosis to combating the spread
of the disease among human beings, by
preventing splitting, bad housing. over
work and other conditions bad for the
health.
Much Discussion occasioned.
Parks paper was followed by wide
sented a story Of two cases of human
tuberculosis in which a bovine type OF
bacillus was associated.
Following Knopfs paper DIR. Fran
cine. Of Philadelphia. declared that all
medical colleges should teach tuber-
| culosis as a special branch and give 1t
! a permanent place in a curriculum.
| A wide discussion of question of
| placing responsibility for the relapse Of
a patient supposedly cured from tuber-
| culosis followed the paper by DR.. W..
l.. Dunn, of Asheville, N. c., on that
| subject in which the opinion was divid-
! ed Perhaps one Of the most interest
| ing papers of the morning session was
by DIR. Henry S. Goodall, of Lake Kush-
| aqua. n. Y, who related some OF the
, results he had obtained in the treat
| ment OF children for pulmonary tuber-
culosis. All experiments detailed
were conducted in a sanatorinm and
| were highly successful.
Pay Roll Tax as Plague Foe.
| Legislative provision for a special
tax on pay rolls. to be paid by the en-
| ployer, provide for insurance against
| tuberculosis, was one Of the sugges-
tions made last night by DIR. Lee X.
! Frankel AZ the meeting Of the advis-
ory council of the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis, which is holding its sixth
| annual meeting in this city
DIR. F'rankel pointed out that 1t Is
feasible to insure against sickness. but
| unless some method by which every
! working man would be obliged to in
sure were devised the very classes
among whom tuberculosis Is most pre-
valent would not be reached by this
insurance because rates would be too
high.
In paper which caused considerable
discussion. James jenkins, Jr., Of
brooklyn insisted that the chief func-
ton of local anti-tuberculosis asso-
edial. The society must do its work
by means OF exhibits, lectures, posters.
newspaper articles, he said. and In
many other ways. Another function OF
the association must be that of giving
inspiration and suggestion to others.
Resolutions favoring the establish
ment OF public health department,
similar to the present government de-
partments; opposing the action OF the
Oklahoma state board OF medical ex-
aminers excluding from practice in
that state all physicians who have suf-
fered at any time from tuberculosis,
and also the Nebraska law which re-
snires INDECENT tubercular patients to
take the serum course of treatment,
were adopted at last nights session of
the association.
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