The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-28
HELPS HUMANITY
Crusade to Eradicate the Dread
"White Plague"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Churches Throw Wide Their Doors
and Physicians deliver Ad-
dresses on the Subject

Last Sunday was tuberculosis Sun
day
Due observance Of the event was
given in Sank Centre, where churches
threw open their doors and suspend.
ell their regular services that physic-
ians might talk to the public about
the systematic war that is now being
waged against the great White
Plague
In the morning, at the Congregation
al church, Drs. H. l.. Lamb, E. }.
Lewis and j. A. Du Bots addressed a
congregation that comfortably filled
the house In the evening, at the
Methodist church. DR.. Du Bots and
the pastor Of the church spoke. DR..
Eu Bots evening talk was practically
the same as he gave in the morning,
but it was delivered before a differ
ent audience.
At the morning service at St.
Pauls Catholic church FIR. ART spoke
on the svbject of tuberculosis, as did
FIR. O'Connor at the Church of Our
Lady of the Angels. At the Episcopal
church Rector S. L, Mitchell preach
ed OH the topic at the evening service
and DIR. j. McMasters gave very
interesting and instructive talk.
DR.. Lamb was the first speaker at
the Congregational church. He laid
down as a premise that the old idea,
that the practice of medicine was the
alienation of pain had given way to
the modern doctrine that it is the pre-
vention of disease. The different case
q tuberculosis, he held, could be
classed under three heads, those which
are accidental, those which are due
t. carelcssness, while the third class
are criminal. The old theory OF he
reditary transmission, he said, is OBJ
solete. There were 1000 deaths in
Minnesota last year, said the speak
er, and of these ten percent were
due to tuberculosis Valuing life
at $4,000, these deaths entailed a less
of $4,000, 900 on the state. Add the
expenses OF sickness and burial and
this total foots up to the appalling
sum of sl5,OOO,OOO.
The tuberculosis bacillus was dis
covered in 1882. Sunlight and fresh
danger lies in the house in which a
patient has died. The old idea that
tuberculosis patient should be talk
en- to southern climate for treat
nlent has been superseded by that of
placing him in a nearby sanitarium.
Er. Lamb went into details relative
to the state sanitarium at Walker.
None but patients in the incipient
stages of the disease are admitted and
then only after an examination by a
physician appointed for that purpose,
there being one in each county.
DR.. Lewis, in opening, stated that
az the present rate of progress, it
will take hundred years to stamp
Cut tuberculosis. He thought more
compulsion should be required in
handling cases. Intelligent people, he
said. are the most ignorant, as they
do listen SO much to suggestions.
Sound bodies are required to resist
this disease. Foundations for tub
CIRCULAR cases are laid, he said, by
permitting children to run around in
cold weather with their limbs and
other parts of their bodies scantily
clothed.
The speaker frankly declared that
he did rot know what should be done
in many cases, as many of them are
extremely hard to diagnose. He laid
it down as safe rule to go by, how