Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-03-07

An audience of about 100 was at
Z. NJ. G. A. hall on Sunday afternoon
at o'clock for a meeting conducted
by the Central Labor union in observ-
ance of Labor's tuberculosis Sunday,
which had been appointed for March
9th by the state conference at Meriden
some time ago. The Norwich concert
orchestra, which contributed its SER
vices, rendered a pleasing concert at
the opening of the meeting. The use
of the hall was contributed by the as
ISOLATION.
Mayor lippitt Presided.
At the opening of the meeting John
j. Connolly, chairman of the Central
Labor unions committee, explained
briefly how the day had been decided
upon by the state conference, and also
expressed his regret at the small num-
Der present to hear the addresses upon
this important subject. He presented
Mayor Lippitt as chairman of the
meeting.
Mayor Lippitt commended the inter-
est shown in the subject by those who
We're present, while he regretted that
there were not more, for he considered
that this was a subject upon which
there could rightly be no indifference
by the general public, for it was mat
ter affecting all and the state had con-
sidered it so important that a state
tuberculosis commission had been APP
pointed. Mayor Lippitt introduced
DR.. E. J. Brophy as the first speaker
DR. Brophy specialized in his inter
esting address upon two points, the
recognition of the early signs and the
preventive measures Consumption is
durable and being cured right here in
connecticut, but with a recognition of
the early symptoms this germ disease
can be cured. Among these were loss
of weight, loss of appetite and loss of
ambition, the raising OF blood when
coughing, continued hoarseness and
pain in the throat. and any case of
pleurisy should be investigated. If
these early symptoms could be known
many cases Of tuberculosis would never
become fatal
The preventive measures he men
toned were destruction of the sputum
by fire the use of individual drinking
utensils by the affected person. Proper
preventive treatment includes rest,
fresh air. and good food, with scarcely
any medicine. Rest for the consump-
tive is most important, he should not
be chased out into the fresh air and
set to chopping trees with the idea of
was great need in this neighborhood
of getting an institution where those
unable to provide for themselves the
proper fresh air and food facilities.
DR.. Brophys instructive talk was
greeted with applause.
Hon. John F. Gunshanan. one of
the three members Of the states tuber-
cuIosis commission, followed DIR. Bro
sympathetic attention of his hearers
He said that he was delighted to come
here, as this was the first opportunity
to come east of the Connecticut river
to speak about the states tuberculosis
work. He was not worried about a
small audience for he had found in
his experience, he said, that the work
ers were perfectly willing to have their
chairmen and officers do all the work,
while they waited to heart the reports
and criticise. Continuing, Mr. Gun
shanan declared:
Sanitarum in This County
'rThe people of New London county
can have a state tuberculosis sanitar-
ium if the senators and representa- ives
from the county are interested enough
to ask for the same in the next gen.
eral assembly
Mr.. Gunshanan told of the great
workingmen's movement in the large
cities of the state, through whose eff
forts principally the sanitariums have
been erected in Hartford, Fairfield and
New Haven counties, where the cost
per patient has been reduced to a min
imum of 50 per week. These sanitari-
ums will accommodate about three
hundred patients and are expected to
be in operation by the LIST of July. Mr.
Gunshannon said that the day camp
for the treatment of consumptives
was all right as far as it goes but to
conduct it properly would make it
very expensive undertaking. Authori-
ties on InlS SUBJECT ten US LQaL d per
son in the advanced stage OF tuber-
cuIosis will expectoratt not less than
10, 600, 900 germs every "a hours and
that these germs live for three years
in dark Railways, factories and rooms
where the sunlight does not penetrate;
that the germs are blown around in
the dust and thus people in a weak
ened condition become affected with
the disease.
1t is also claimed that every death
from tuberculosis leaves two new vic
Tins. The speaker told his hearers
that If Il mad dog is known to be at
large the whole community is aroused,
but they allow careless consumptives
to expectorate everywhere and pay no
attention to them. If the mind of a
factory employee should become af-
fected he would soon lose his position
because the workers would fear that
he might do them bodily injury And
yet we seldom hear of a person being
injured by a man thus afflicted. On
the other hand, the workers in the
factories allow the consunptive in
their midst to expectorate millions of
| these deadly germs around them and
are needless of the danger. Our state