The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-17
OF tuberculosis and Greater Per
centage In Washington County
TOLD TO BARRE -AI,o' ],
.,uopt
Excellent De -stration Being Given at
City Hall Under Auspices Of the ver-
mont State Board of Health, But 4
Not Largely Attended.

Three hundred people went to the city
building at one time or another Monday
afternoon and evening to inspect tho
tuberculosis exhibit held by the state
board Of health in the quarters formerly
occupied by the postof1ice and perhaps
an audience of two hundred men and
women assembled in the opera house at
8 o'clock last night to hear DR.. f. e..
Clark of Burlington give stereopticon
lecture on the spread and prevention Of
the white plague. Both the exhibit and
the lecture combined TO put some reveaf~
| ing figures before the people. The cam
paign Of the state board of health was
| linaugurated at Montpelier last week and
was continued in Barre yesterday and
to-day, special emphasis being placed on
tuberculosis as an oecupational disease
with local reference to the stone-cutting
trade
The exhibit at the city building was
in charge of DIR. II. A. Ladd of Burling-'
ton, inspector for the state beard Of.
health. The walls were covered with
descriptive and statistical charts, show
ing the ravages of the disease in Yer.
mont and calling attention to the man
ner in which the plague could be con-
quered. Distributed in different corners
of the room were photographs of sana.
toriums devoted entirely to the treat.
ment of consumption and depicting the
methods employed by the patients in
overcoming their enemy. Included in
the photographs were pictures of we'll
necticut and New York hospitals for the
treatment of tuberculosis.
Miniature houses to which were at
tached model sleeping porches for con.
sumptiye patients were shown in mum.
bers, and small furnished rooms, show
ing the most sanitary way of furnishing
living quarters, formed noticeable fea-
ture of the exhibit and attracted much
attention. Portions of the human body,
revealing the manner and extent OF the
tubercular rayages, were exhibited I'M
der glasses and served to attract the
attention of many. In one corner of the
room a photographic demonstration Of
tubercular treatment was carried on
throughout the afternoon and evening.
Probably the most telling factor in
the exhibit was the system OF statistical
charts that told of the standing of tn-i
berculosis among the diseases that men.
ace humanity. Many of these dealt
more in particular with conditions here
in Vermont and placed special stress
upon the prevalence of consumption.
among stoneeutters and kindred trades
OF all occupations, according TO the sta
tistics gathered by the state board of
health, that of the stoneeutter and mar
BILE worker stands out as the most sus-
ceptibe to the attack of tubercular
germs. According to the statistics pro-
duced at the demonstration. there are
$500 cases of the disease in Vermont at
the present time, and the wave of tu-'
berculosis seems to spend its fury right
here in Washington county
OF interest to many will be the fol-
lowing figures showing the number OF,
deaths for each 10000 people in Vermont
for the past five years: Franklin coun.i
ty, 1871; Lamoille, 10; Chittenden, l6.5,
Addison, 9.s; Rutland, l4l; Benning-
ton, l3,7 Windham, III; Windsor, 49,
Orange, 10; Washington. l7.2; Caledonia,
1873; Orleans, l2.2; Essex, "a; Grand
Isle, l2.l. 1t will thus be seen that
Washington county leads most of her
sister divisions by several points. Chit
tenden county follows with a point less.
The disparity is plainly due to the fact
that large numbers of men in Barre,
Mortified and Waterbury
are engaged in cutting stone.
One OF the attaches at the exhibit
stated yesterday that the attendance at
the exhibit in Barre had been extremely
gratifying. He explained that the dem.
had been arranged for the
benefit of the men affiliated with the
stone trade, and from the number OF
,tonecutters who took advantage of the
exhibition by making the rounds after
o'clock, he added that the efforts OF.
he state board of health were evidently
appreciated. For the time being. tbs
,xhibits will be discontinued in Yer:
mont, although it is the expressed in
ention of the board to prosecute the
Hague with renewed vigor and on every
land. 1t may be interesting to note in
his connection that every physician is
by statute to report each case
\ tuberculosis that comes under his
reatment to the secretary of the state
oard.
Lecture Last Evening.
Last night small but interested audi
iice hntuhtu III hPNdlu5 VI WV houiS
0 DIR. Clark's lecture in the opera house.
he phyEcian displayed some excellent
Material on the screen and accompanied
! with an exhaustive description of the
lroads which the disease makes upod
he system, once it gains hold, and
ften interspersed his remarks with we'll
efned points of prccaution One of the
facts that came out in the
purse Of his lecture included state
rent that one-third of all the people
ho die between the ages of fifteen and
orty-hve are victims of tuberculosis
IF. Clark explained that the mortality
lused by consumption came in period
hen the victims were of greatest usei
, the community.
The lecturer urged that tuberculosis
atIents exercise extreme care in tho
sposition of their sputum and declared
lat precautionary measures in this re.
,eet constituted one of the greatest
ctors In the fight which science is wag-
C against the white plague. He spared
) pains In showing how the disease