The Washington times., 1912-05-30

M|LCH Cow IS HELD
GREATEST MENACE
TO CHILD'S HEALTH
Head of National Tubercu-
losis Society Asks for
Better Protection.

The tubercular milch COW Is the great
est menace of children and the biggest
obstacle to the prevention OF tubercu-
losis. This Is the view expressed by
DR.. Mazyck p. Ravanel, president of
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention OF tuberculosis, In the
opening address to that association at
the opening of it's eighth annual meeting
this morning at the willard.
That bovine tuberculosis Is transmit
ted to human beings Is a settled fact,
declared DR.. Ravanel, who is director of
the hygienic laboratory Of the Univer-
sity Of Wisconsin. This fact Is of es-
pecial Importance in tuberculosis in
children, because they are more easily
infected than adults and also, proper
tionately, consume much more milk.
Stress was laid on the Importance of
graduated exercise In the treatment of
tuberculosis. Rest was formerly re-
sarded as essential. The value Of exer-
cisese carefully executed under the care
of physician is now advanced.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, executive
secretary of the association, gave
hearty Endorsement to the new tubercu-
losis legislation of New Jersey. Any
tuberculous person who does not obey
the hygienic rules laid down by the
Stat board of health may be forcibly
removed from his home and isolated.
he may also be taken before Judge
and committed to a sanitarlum IL such
measures are necessary. The several
counties are required to establish sani-
tariums for the tuberculous, and the
State encourages the work by paying
y a week toward the support Of each
patiei4t.
the rapid grow tn of interest and ma
tsrial progress in the anti.tuoe.culos.s Q
camraign Mas portrayed IN figures Sub
mitted by DR.. Farrand. One year ago
there were 611 associations affiliated
with the National Anti-Tuberculosis
Society. There are now $50. The num-
Der OF special tuberculosis hospitals
and sanitariums has increased. from 422
to 466, while the number of special
tuberculosis dispensaries has in
creased from 342 to S73. Within the last
hve years ninety-five open-air schools
have been established.
Nearly 200 persons, most of them
delegates; attended the opening session.
This Is greater number than has at
tended the first session of any previous
meeting.
committee on nominations, COM
prising DR.. w. c. White, Of Pittsburg;
DR.. F. H, Mann, of New York: DR.. A.
M Wilson, of Philadelphia; DR.. w. s.
Ifford.of Washington, and DR.. A. NM.
on resolutions, comprising DR.. H. r. NJ.
Landis, of Philadelphia; DR.. J. r.
Shilladay, of Buffalo; DIR. H. M. King
horn. of Saranac Lake. N. Y; DR.. T.
Barlow, of Los Angeles. were appointed
and will report at noon tomorrow.
Tells of German Law. .,...
Practically. the entire German wage
earning population is subject to the
compulsory .invalidity insurance laws,
said F. L. Hoffman, of Newark, N. j..
on the care of tuberculous wage earn
ers in Germany. On that account es-
batting tuberculosis with view to re-
dividual. Hospitals have. been estab.
lished in. which the wage earners are
the family so that the affected indivi
dual may be relieved Of personal anx'
iety. There are now ninety-nine pub
lie and thirty-four private sanitorta
in Germany capable of taking care o1
$500 patients each year.
The proportion of men to womer
treated is two to one. Ninety per cen,
OF the cases treated were restored tc
half Of the number discharged froIr
the hospitals retain their full wagt
earning capacity for five years or longer
after leaving the sanitoria.
shown in the declining death rate from
tuberculosis in Germany, the rate pei
thousand having dropped from 81 II
1884 to 17.9 last year.
''The majority of textbooks and
articles on tuberculosis" said DR.. w
J. Vogeler, of Yonkers. have heretofore
advocated outdoor employment for dis.
charged patients. We have decided to
send all of our patients back to their
former occupations In the factories and
shops, believing that the taking up oi
new occupations would necessitatt
greater mental labor in the adjustment
to new conditions, and would besides
entail lower wages.
Greatly Aids Them.
I'VE have found that those who re-
turned to their old occupations, unless
they were distinctly harmful, did bettel
than those who took up new ones"
He said. however, that certain occupa
tions, such as that of motormen, con
ductors. and drivers are deemed harm
full tuberculous persons. and that theil
resumption is advised against.
The monetary loss to society in thii
country from tuberculosis Is at leas
$570, 100000. without taking into accoun
the losses to the victims themselves
The whole loss exceeds $1,000 900, 900 pc
year. These were statements OF Trying
Fisher, professor of economics in Yal
University. who spoke this afternoon.
"These cold calculations take no ac
count, Of course, of the fact that
mans own life is worth more to hin
than the earnings he expects 1t to bring
and that the loss of monetary support |
orphans suffer from the death Of
loved husband and father. Nor doe
thfs account consider the impairment o
working efficiency in the years preced