Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-10-16
tuberculosis Carries Off $4,000
Children a Year.
Waste Could Be Eliminated II Child
Was Taken Care Of at Right
Tlme-crowdlng and Lack Of
Food Among Evils.

Washington Three per cent of all
the children of school age in the
United States are tuberculous, which
involves yearly loss of $75,OO0,0OO,'
declared DR.. s. Adolphus Knopf Of
the New York Post Graduate Medical
school and hospital in addressing the
fifteenth international congress of hy-
giene and demography in session
here.
The loss of S75,OOO,OOO," he said,
lis figured on the cost of maintaining
these children to the community and
to their parents at $3.50 per annum
and figuring the average life Of the
$4,000 children who die annually from
tuberculosis at seven and one-half
years. This waste could be elm
mated If the child were taken care of
at the right time"
DR.. Knopf also declared that in his
opinion a large percentage Of the
diseases prevalent among children OF
school age was due to decayed teeth.
Let us have free dental clinics"
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carefully and practically re-examined
for every possible physical and mental
deficiency; let no child pass through
life with pathological or esthetic de-
feet which can be prevented by time
ly treatment and care. The result
OF ouch provision will be better health
and happier citizens"
Twenty-Five hundred delegates.
among them some of the most noted
scientists in Europe and the United
States, we're present when the con.
vencion was called to order by Presi
dent Henry p. Walcott of Boston.
Dr. Anderson declared typhus fever
was prevalent in Chicago, New York
and other large cities and was spread
by insects
DR.. Fred Novy of the University Of
Michigan announced the discovery of
a micro-organism which kills rats in.
fected with bubonic plague. The pos
sibility of wiping the dreaded plague
off the earth was suggested DR..
Daniel Warren Poor and Dr. Edna
Steinhardt of the New York depart
ment of health told of the finding of
a gland virus for\rabies.
That children are bad physically in
almost direct proportion as they re-
ceive insufficient food. have little room
to live, are forced to sleep in crowded
beds and have the reflected worry
from taxes and mortgages, is the opin'
ion expressed by DR.. Caroline G. He'd
ger OF Chicago, who spoke on The
School Children of the Stockyards Dis
trict.
1T liz a gray neighborhood, the Chi
ccgo stockyards,' said DR.. Hedger
She presented the substance of an in
vestigaiion carried ON under the dl
rection Of the board of the University
Of Chicago, showing that almost 81
per cent. of the children Of the stock
yards district thowed material re
tardation in the two schools in the
district from which the 200 pupils
were students.
In the region in which they live
she said, the smoke comes down IL
clouds ard with it comes the smell o
the fertilizer plants This is not con
ducive to deep breathing or sounC
sleep, and the children impress one al
lacking oxygen, round-shouldered, THU
and rather pale.
THE children have not the spiri
and the nervous balance to make thei
grades. If the child grows inactive
disconnected, becomes idle and Grim
a inal, is the child to blame?" the speak
er asked "or is the SNUG citizen VIII,
gives on the fat returns of stocks
hose money is made by the swea
And blood and deprivation of the in
y FdustriaI neighborhoods like this?"