Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-25
MANY THEMES IN
HYGEN|C CONGRESS
CONCERNING THINGS THAT IN
JURE THE PEOPLE
Study of Fatigue and It's Application
to the Industrial Workers-De-
cayed Teeth Disease of the
Masses-A arrier of Typhus.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Washington. D. c., Sept "a
With the assertion that fatigue wa
a danger of occupation as truly a!
any of the industrial posions anC
must be recognized as such if it i.
to be combatted,' Miss Josephine
Goldmark of the National Consum
ers League, New York city, address.
ed the Fifteenth international Con.
gress of Hygiene and Demography
today on ''The study Of fatigue and
its application to industrial workers
"The essential injury Of overtime
is due to what has been graphically
proved in the laboratory with the
argograph," Said Miss Goldmark
because effort increased with
fatigue; bebcause work continued
after fatigue has set in requires Sc
much more subsequent time for re-
cuperation, but during rush Of
overtime season such time for re
cuperation is necessarily lacking.
"The clerk who is kept in tho
great department store until eleven
twelve or one o'clock at night durinf
one or two frenZied weeks beforr
Christmas, the girl who works al
fever heat stitching women's waist
in January for the spring trade
not relieved of the necessity of re
porting fro work the next morning
She comes to work unrested an(
with each day of overtime accumu
lated fatigue necessarily grows.
''It is precisely here that the ai(
of science is so urgently needed am
has hitherto been almost who'll
lacking"
Dental Hygiene for Schools.
DR.. G. Adolphus Knopf, speakin
on the topic Dental Hygiene TO
the Pupils of Public Schools de
clared bad and decayed teeth wer'
a disease of the masses as much a
tuberculosis, and as such must b.
combated particularly in children
school age.
After making an estimate that
least three per cent of all Of tn
children of school age Of the Unite
States were tuberculous, and callin
attention to the last report of tn
commissioner of education tha
there were 20,000,O00> children at
tending public schools in the coun
try, DR.. Knopf declared there mus
be at least 100000 tuberculous chill
dren in urgent need of open-air in
struction He quoted an estimatf
that the average life of the $1,000
children who die annually from tn
berculosis in the United States wa
about seven and one-half years. Fig
uring the cost TO the parents an
community al only $3.50 per annum
he said the financial loss thus rer
resented was SIS, 100000 and chill
dren have died before they have beer
able 10 give any returns to thei
parents or the community.
A Carrier of Typhus.
DR.. Joseph Goldberger and DR.
John F. Anderson, of the hygieni'
laboratory of the United States pub
lie service, said they had trace
typhus fever to the louise, as car
rier and that their investigation haf
disclosed nearly 800 cases of thu
disease in New York, as well as |;
number in Chicago. Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington, although
it was thought that typhus had no
visited American for many years.
The disease. however, was founf
to be in mild form. but they sai6
mild forms of disease become malig
nant. Thphus fever is one of the 81,
diseases the United States consider:
so dangerous that special quaran
tine regulations have been issued
against it. The malady usually
visits those who live in crowded
and insanitary habitations and is E
poor mans disease.
Why the louse should be the only
insect that carries typhus they have
been unable to determine. One o.
these insects which bites patient
during the fever period will be able
in about four days afterwards Il
give the disease to any unfortunate
victim he may chance TO fasten up
on. Experiments have shown alsc
that monkeys may contract thf
disease through the bites of lice
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