The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-25
No. 9

In speaking of the difficulties in carry.
ing on this work in Frederick, he said:
we have met with some rebuffs, those
OF us who are most intimately in touch
with the execution of the work This
we condone, for we feel that the non-
appreciation of the efforts are due almost
to degree from ignorance of the BEN
ehts that are possible to be achieved.
The one great obstacle to the successful
carrying out of the work is ignorance
Therefore the keynote and potent factor
OF success in this work is education"
The day has passed when the pa
tents should be kept in ignorance of
their true condition. This should no
longer be practiced for fear of offending
the patient and family, for the gravity
OF the situation and moral responsibility
to the community and patient should be
the first consideration of the practi-
toner"
1--WE are handicapped to some extent
by our general sanitary condition. This
condition is not the result of any particu-
lar administration, but has existed for
years, and we who are officially con-
nected with the municipality realize that
there is much to be done"
DIR. McCurdy referred to the several
ordinances which had been passed. re-
sultng in much good to the community.
and then added: "But vet there re-
mains much to be done by the munic-
ipal authorities in order that the work OF
the society can be properly and success
fully carried out"
Some of the plans to correct the many
unfavorable conditions, were as follows:
A complete sewerage system and the
aboshment of the surface drains along
with the soil closets and cess pools; a
garbage disposal plant; the creation of a
Sanitary Board, under whose supervision
the issuing of building permits shall be
given, (for now we have no authority
to have the erection of buildings con-
form to any specific and sanitary regula-
tom; the installing of the most approved
type of sanitary drinking fountains and
the doing away with the drinking cup in
common; employers should use the ut
most care in selecting their employees, for
by massing people much infection is dis
seminated and business places should
strictly observe the law relative to sup
plying sufficient cuspidors; the curricula
of our schools should have course in
Social Hygiene and Moral ProphyIaxis;
the Sanitary Board should have the su-
pervison of all milk and meats exposed
for sale; and INDECENT and poorer classes
who have been so unfortunate as to be-
come infected by the disease should be
given all of the benefits that institutions
maintained for the caring Of those un-
able to earn their Sustenance, can af-
ford.
In regard to the last suggestion, he
said: ut is to be hoped that the commits
sioners of this county will at an early
date awaken to these facts and establish
such provisions at Montevue Hospital,
that the poor or our county can receive
the benefits and protection to which they
are rightfully entitled"
The meeting concluded with some
pictures of the 'slum' of Frederick.
pictures, which DIR. McCurdv said,
spoke for themselves" They portrayed
scenes on Five and-a Half street, and
some of the miserable colored inhabi-
tants OF those unspeakable tenements.
Many OF these people are afflicted with
tuberculosis, and they die in about seven
months, some times six weeks. after be-
ing attacked by the disease. 1t is among
these people that much of the time of the
Visiting Nurse, Miss Casey, is spent, and
the health of the city. Some of them
are also afflicted with ophthalmia, and
one family was shown in which the
grandmother is totally blind, the mother
partially SO, and of seven grandchildren,
two are stone blind, and four have lost
the sight of one eye.
The attitude of the public towards the
county Jail system in the United States
Ctnr Ntaa ~c
indifference and inhumanity, by DR.
Frederick H. Wines, statistician Of the
Illinois Board of Administration OF State
institutions, before the Maryland Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections.
The public at large re ards the fate of
the prisoner, be what it may. as the work
of his own hands, is the belief of DIR.
Wines and does not very much care
what IT may chance to be.
mo fault can be found with any one
jail that may not be found with scores
and hundreds of Others" DR.. Wines
continued. There are jails that are
too large and jails that are too small,
insecure, unsanitary jails, jails without
ventilation, filthy jails, jais that are moi
properly governed. palatial jails, and jails
that are not fit for occupation, stables ol
pig sites. There is not a charge that car
be brought against the county Jail system
which has not been brought, nor one that
cannot be sustaided.
I'VE have used a stereotyped form o
construction in American prisons. Thai
is one cause of the prevalence TO such
an alarming extent of tuberculosis. The
atmosphere of our average Jail, is fou
beyond the power of language to de
scribe. Prisons of this sort are prop
agating houses OF criminology.
The abuses of which have limited
could not long survive, if convicted of
tenders, major and minor misdemants,
as well as felons, were in the custod,
Of the State, instead of county officials
The massing Of sentenced prisoner
would admit of their classification anc
of the introduction OF reformatory meth
DDS of dealing with them"
The anddress of Mr.. Wines was fol
lowed by discussions participated in b,
DIR. Cook, for twenty years physician t
the Maryland Pententiary, and Mrs. DIR
Lord. of the Woman's Federation Clubs
Boltimore.
Mrs. Finley stated that she had visite,
the local jail and prisoner had informe,
her that they did not receive any liter
ature to read Professor Apple, Rev. y
S, G.. Rupp, Miss jamie DeLashmutt an,
Miss Hester Morsell disabused her min,
of the impression that such condition
existed. Mr. +. s Eichelberger ques
T toned Mr.. Wines asto whether he be
lieved in corporal punishment, to whic
he responded in the negative.
. A. J.