Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-09-28
FINE ADDRESSES
DELIVERED BEFORE
NATIONAL congress
"The Chicago Stock Yards Is A
Gray Neighborhood."
EXPERTS TALK ABOUT
MANY DISEASES

NAV DltoLADLC
Sewerage Systems Of the Cities Elk.
planned and Many Valuable sue-
gestions are oHered-Diseases and
Prevention Come in for Their Share
Of Recognition.
Washington, Sept 24.-"The Chi
cage stock yards is gray neighbor-
hood" declared Dir Caroline Hedger.
OF Chicago. In her address here today
before the National Congress on Hy-
giene and Demograpny.
Speaking of the children of the
stock yards district DR.. Hedger said.
In the region In which they live. the
smoke comes down in clouds and with
1t comes the smell of the fertilizer
plants. This is not conductive TO
deep breathing or sound sleep and the
children are round shouldered. thin
and rather pale. They have not the
spirit and the nervous balance to make
their grades.
III the child grows inactive discon-
! tented, becomes idle and a criminal.
asked the doctor "is the child to
| blame, or is the SNUG citizen who
lives on the fat returns of stocks,
whose money is made by the sweat
and blood, and deprivation of the in
dustrial neighborhoods like this"
/ T. Remand Thomson, Vice-Presi-
dent of the American Society of Mech.
anical Engineers of New York, ad-
dressed the Congress on the subject
of the Causes OF Caisson Disease,
or the Bends, dangerous malady
contracted by men who work in com
pressed air Mr. Thomson expressed
the opinion that quite as many cases
of the Bends" were caused by work
ing in foul air as in compressed air
and made the startling declaration
that New York was running great
risk of an epidemic because of the
criminal folly OF depositing sewerage
In the Harlem River"
He said that sewerage tests has
proved that the tides do not carry
away all the sewage and as a conse-
quence any excavation at the bottoms
OF the Hudson or East Rivers reveals
a foul smell Il s
1t would be dangerous" said he,
to pump the waters from these riv-
ers TO put out fires as so much foul
mud would thus be scattered over the
city to dry and spread as dust"
In an address before the Congress
on Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, DR.. Alb
raham Sophian. of the Department of
Health. New York City. stronly en-
dorsed the use characterization as a pre-
ventive of that dread disease.
Epidemic meningitis" said DR..
Sophian, " is an acutely infectious con.
tagious disease that is Transmitted
originally through the medium of
healthy carriers; that is, healthy peo-
pie who harbor the injecting agent
in their noses and throats. These
healthy carriers are In constant dan.
ger since they may at any time de-
velop meningitis; they are also a men
ace 10 their neighbors"
There are few diseases that can be
as easily eradcated as rabies" de-
clared Prof Henry Albert. of the Iowa
University, In an address here today
before THE Congress.
He presented a system, which, if
carried out, he thought would drive
the last vestige OF hydrophobia from
the North American continent 1t
has already been done he declared,
by Great Britain. Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, and" said he, III the
example offered by these countries
were followed the world over. rabies,
as a disease soon would lose all its
terrors for both the human kind and
the animal kind"
/ Prof. Albert would insist that all
dogs be licensed and that all dogs not
| provided with a collar and license
tag should be destroyed. He would
further require that when rabies is
present in given place, all dogs per-
mited 10 run at large should bemuz,
! zled and kept muzzled for six months
at least.
lie said would also insist that all
dogs imported into this coutry should
be held in quarantine for at least six
months
He presented statistics showing
that in the United States in 1911 there
were 1855 persons bitten by rabid |
dogs and nearly all these cases were
confined to the states East of the Mis-
sissippi river Last year New York 4
mad more eases OF hydrophobia than .
any other state Il headed the list
with 500 persons bitten BY mad dogs
OF animals presumed to be mad Ceor.
gia was second with ass: Ohio third
with 40 and South Carolina fourth
with $50
Aside from r Kennard Thomson
the subject OF Caisson Disease or the
Bends" was discussed by Or Peter
Bassoe Of Rush Medical College, Chi.
ram AgWrN f.s.. - .