Bisbee daily review., 1912-05-31
DISCUSS WAYS
 0F FIGHTING
 WHITE PLAGUE
The Part of the Layman and of Officials in Prevent ing Tuberculosis
 Outlined
ASSOCIATION MEETS
 IN WASHINGTON
Unremitting Vigilance by Public and Sanitary Restrictions Are
 Urged

WASHINGTON. May 20.-Tha
 share of The Layman in the Anti
 Tuberculosis Campaign" was de.
 scribed by Col. J l. Ludlow, of Win
 ston Salem, x. C.. in paper read
 tonight before the advisory counCi,
 Of the national association for the
 study and prevention of tuberculosis.
 Tn community life. tuberculosis is
 a social burden of vastly comprehen.
 sive proportions the speaker said
 Tt involves practically every other
 phase of civic life in which ara
 usually classed our social problems.
 Even immortality and vice cannot hs
 excepted. The causes of tuberculo-
 SIS. and it's prevention. embrace the
 probelms of child labor regulation. school facilities. housing conditions. low wages. long hours, cost of living factory conditions. private and public sanitation. As each Of these pertain to personal and public health. and to the impairment of physical strength tnd yigOr, so do they measure the effectIve infection and prevalence of tuberculosis in community life
 The degree of prevalence of tuber. culosis in a community or city does not measure the standard of medical practice. But it is a correct and in fallible index of the private and pub lie hygienic habits and conditions O; | Ithe community It is the disease barometer of wrong living and de- fective sanitary environment Only ! to small degree may We hope for | its solution by the physician or by | the most aggressive public health of 1 ilcers without the active cooperation and support Of other municipal Of | ficials and by the general public as we'll
 Many Things to Do
 When among the laymen of a community there shall have been de. Teloped a true conception of civic duty in the anti-tuberculosis cam paigB, then will they become active. ly interested in the quality and char acter of the public water supply, and in the disposal of sewage, garbage and other waste products: in clean back yards; in the care of streets and other public places, and in the problem Of dust and dirt prevention in the provision of parks and public playgrounds for outdoor recreation; in the proper housing and feeding Of the poor: in the prompt reporting oi all infectious and contagious dis. eases by all practising physicians; in the proper observance and enforce. ment of isolation and quarantine Of infectious and contagious diseases, and of disinfection and proper dis posal of germ-laden excretions: in a properly organized and faithfully exc cuted plan of registering vital sta. tistics: in the proper inspection or the meat and milk supply, and other food products: in the proper teaching Of personal and community hygiene in the public schools and Sunday i schools, and its advocacy by the pull. q pit. the press. and in state and city offices. With an active interest ih Y such factors Of community life on the part of the public, then will there be q reasonable hope for the universal of the sanitary gospe. that in the warfare waged by the foes Of human life against the health and happiness of mankind, unremitting vigilance and i directed combat is the price of safety"
 The question, should the proven ton or tuberculosis be exclusively under official c0ntrol?" was discussed | by Dr. Charles O. PrObst, formerly state health officer of Ohio. Colum- bus. Ohio, in paper read before the advisory council
 He said ia part: The eradication Of tuberculosis means systematized methods, long continued and intelli- gently directed. Effective work, l therefore, in the prevention Of this requires the active support