Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-09
|LECTUREAT EXPOSITION
ON AN1I-IUbERCUL0SlS
MRS. j. e. STEVENS WILL AD
ORES CROWDS WEDNESDAY
IN AUDITORIUM
North Dakota Anti-TubercuIosis So
ciety Is Doing Fine Work and has
Splendid Exhibit at Exposition.

One of the attractive and in
structive exhibits at the Industrial
Exposition is that of the state tuber-
culosis society with Mrs. ]. E. Stew
ems, of Grand Forks, in charge. The
society has booth in which is ex'
hibited illustrations showing the pro-
gress of the white plague, how it gains
hold it's progress and effects, and
there is authorities showing how it
may be prevented and cured. Con-
sumption causes more deaths in North
Dakota and in the United States than
any other disease. 1t is the aim OF
the society to stop its ravages and to
teach the prospective victim how to
avoid contamination.
Mrs. Stevens is devoted to the cause
of good health and the prevention OF
disease and she has been very active
during the past five years in North
Dakota. The North Dakota Anti-Tu-
berculosis Association desires to en-
list your sympathy and cooperation
in their campaign of education for
clean morals, clean bodies and right
living. Apply to the officers for plans
literature, etc. DR.. J. Grassick, presi-
dent, Grand Forks; DR.. Fannie Dunn
Quain, secretary, Bismarck; Mrs. J.
S. Stevens, treasurer, Grand Forks.
The state hospital at Dunseith, now
almost completed, was secured
through the efforts of this society. 1t
will accommodate forty patients. A
campaign of education is now being
carried on in the state with unusual
vigor. Lectures will be delivered here
during the week. AS set out in the
literature, the cure of consumption
does not consist in taking some speci'
fic drug; not in employing some mys'
FERROUS magic art; not in crossing
continent in search of a fountain of
health. but in bringing to bear against
the disease all the forces of our civil
ization, and in living a life in COM
munion with nature and in conformity
with her laws.
"This is not work Tor physicians
alone, no matter how we'll equipped
or efficient they may be; it is not for
the masses of the people alone, no
matter how enthusiastic or intelligent
they may be, but, as has been so we'll
said by Knopf: To combat consump-
ton as a disease of the masses sue
cessfully, requires the combined &C.
ton of wise government, well train
ed physicians, and an intelligent peo
ple."
1T is now generally recognized that
human sputum or other secretions of
the upper air passages no only may
contain the germs of tuberculosis,
but also those of dphtheria, pneumon-
ia, bronchitis. tonsilitis, infantile par
alysis and other diseases. When we
take into account the great number
of walking carriers of pathogenic or
ganisms that are splitting on floors,
halls and other public places, we cease
to wonder why We have outbreaks Of
disease in unexpected times and plac.
es. Stop splitting and you stop nine
tenths Of the cases of obscure origin
of the acute infectious diseases.
what is the remedy? Stop spit
ting. This seems simple, yet it is
one of the great problems with which
oOuI Lol lO1S "lCoLIIu6. ne
is SO universal and ignorance of its
significance so appalling, that it will
require a long educational campaign
before the public are made to realize
what it means.
Much has already been done, but
much is still left to do We must re-
member that it is only thirty years
since Koch gave the world the dis
covery of tubercle bacillus. It took
some time for the medical profession
to appreciate it's import and the laity
are still learning their lesson. The
United States census reports for 1890
give the annual death rate from tuber-
culosis Of 245.5 per 100000 population;
for 1900 of 201.2, and for 1908 of
1889, a decrease of thirty per cent In.
eighteen years. In European coun-
tries where the war against it has
been waged more Systematically than
with us reports are even more favor
able. This is encouraging and an in
dication Of what may be done by
united scientific action. The fact
that splitting endangers the health, if