Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-05-05
TUBERCULOSIS
SUNDAY TALK
DOCTORS JONES AND cuTHBERK
MAKE INTERESTING SPEECH :%
2 Es At CHURCHES.

Two very fine lectures were given I'm
this city Sunday in accordance with
the observance of that day as health
Sunday. DR.. Cuthbert lectured at thes
Methodist church in the morning anG
DR.. Jones at the Episcopal church fa
the evening. Dr.. Jones emphasized
the extent of the dreaded disease tr1 tn
Notwithstanding to the fact that
In the United States 100000 die annu-
ally from the disease, while perhaps
as many more are curedk'by open air
and hygenic treatment. He laid stress
on the harm done by sleeping In I'M
roperly ventilated rooms without suffi-
cient fresh air and living In houses
that are too dark, and into which tho
sun never enters. It is noticeable that
the mortality is higher among the coli
ored people. In Boston where the COZ
ored population Is 100000, TOO negroes
die every year from this cause. At
Atlanta, Georgia, deaths from tubercR-
losis reach something like SEQ for ev-
cry 100000, while in the rural districts
the death rate is lowered to 300. These
races taken from their open air lives
are unable to stand the confinement OF
houses. Attention was called to the
dissemination of the germ by food in
lection, expectorating on the sidewalk,
the dangers of the dust. Milk is most
frequently infected food and the vic
tins that suffer are mostly children.
The sleeping car too, Is often the
source Of this disease. A man taking
Pullman may enter berth which has
just held a man dying from tubercu-
losis. The sheets and pillow slips are
changed, but he sleeps under the same
blankets, which have not been 6fsfra-
fected, aired and often not even shak-
en- out by the Industrious porter Am
interesting statement WaB to the ef-
feet that perhaps NO person lives to be-
fifty without having had tuberculosis.
germs In his body, matter which cx-
plaint how easily the disease may be-
plains how easily the disease may be-
DR.. Cuthbert in his talk at the Meth
.sdist church in the morning necessarily
emphasized much the same points. He
spoke Of the different names under
which the disease appears, flrst the
small tuberculis, second as consump.
tion, so called because it consumes
readily the tissues of the body and re-
Gently 1t has become known as the,
white Plague" He compared 1t to
the plaques Of history, the athens
plague, the one which swept Europe in
the fourteenth century killing one
fourth of the population, and to the
London Black Plague in 1855.
These plaques were bad enough to
mark an epoch in history but bad as
they were not as threatening as the
tuberculosis of today for the fact that
they are not limited to anyIace or ter
ritory while the others were localized
Then although the London plague
killed 10000 in one year that is prac-
tically only one-third of the number
killed every year in the United States.
One-third of the people who die be-
tween the ages Of eighteen and forty
i've die of tuberculosis, fact which
shows that this disease takes men OF
in the prime of life. l. $3..2,s2 s,a
The, means of transmitting the dis
ease are two: exhaling and consuming,
it being known now that it cannot be-
transmitted by inheritance from parent
to child, Sperunl which Is discarded
on the street drying in a few minutes
and becoming absorbed with the dust
and carried far. and wide. Flies bring
germs into the home and stores and
are a special menace to health. The
doctor then read an article taken from
the North Dakota health bulletin which
dwelt forcibly on the haI4n done by
flies and their part In the spread OF
consumption, urging strong cam
paign for their exterminatfon.
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