The farmer and mechanic., 1912-09-24

nooht u tuDeFCulOSiS, he said
that child labor is as bad in the homes
as in the factory, and both are agents
OF tuberculosis. DIR Knopf urged the
lresh air treatment for tuberculosis
ooneTerS, but was caustic in his treat
fnent of the much advertised rest
cures. Lying in chair ten hours
uolns nothing is worse than hard
HofK. he said. Give the patient all
the work he can stand without anv
danger to his condition"
Taking up the question OF sending
cured patients back to the environ
ment from which they came. DR..
knopf ridiculed the idea of putting
them all on farms. You can't make
farmers out Of choemakers, book
Keepers, and the like said he
Send them back to their old work,
but improve the conditions under
which they must work.
Or. knopf then took up the inn
migration question. saying that the
examination Of immigrants for tuber-
cuiosis is something Of farce, be
cause forty can't be examined every
half hour" He said that six or eight
days on the ocean made them look
healthy. and they escaped the in
spectors. only to develop the disease
later.
Rats as Disease Carriers.
Dr. w. c. Rucker. Of the United
States public health service said that
rats are the greatest factor in bubon-
le plague. Prevent the rats from
getting into the home" he said. land
| there is little danger Of the plague"
He said that fleas spread the plague
by being carried into homes by the
rats. He said that the eall-important
thing in dealing with the bubonic
plague is to prevent rats from getting
into places where human beings live
or work. The spread Of the plague
through the human agency Is only a
very small factor. compared with its
spread by rats. He favored a rat
survey in every city once a year. He
said this is a good way to prevent the
plague. 1T is an International ques-
ton" he said. ''and there should be
a permanent international plague
commissi on"
Taking up the question Of i'm
munizing the human being. DR.
Rucker said the practice is danger
rary and ''its wholesale use is to be
condemned
DIR. w. H. Frost, passed assistant
surgeon Of the public health service
favored the use of Vaccines in the
prevention of plague subject which
he discussed during the evening.
DR. Eduardo Liceaga outlined the
Mexico to defend itself against the
bubonic plague, while DR.. A. G
Dominguez. Of Cuba. explained the
regulations Of that country, with re
ference to the transportation Of tuber-
culOSiS passengers.
Several other technical papers deal
ing with the control Of infant diseases
septic sore throat, and milk were reat
during the evening.
The morning session Of the aSSOcia
ton was given over to a symposium
on cold storage. nine papers beln:
: read
Praise for Cold Storage.
. One Of the important papers in tn
/ cold storage symposium was by Dr.
. Mary f. Pennington, Of Philadelphia
who said that she preferred a six-da
: refrigerator egg to one brought from
the nearby farms, because it had re
; ceived better treatment. and ha
> been more carefully handled, an
was purer. She said that the coll
! storage system had grown up becaus
! people were demanding eggs all tn
: year round and chickens and turkey
out of season. She said that eggs an
! poultry coming from thousan
9 miles were more apt to be bette
. fitted for eating than the same pro
! duct brought from nearby places.
+ A strong defense Of cold stora g
+ nard of Indiana, who declared tha
G a proper labelling Of cold storag
articles would do away with the popu
o lar idea that cold storage is an art
i flee used by spectators to raise tn
! cost of living. He condemned man
of the ''ill-designed and crudely draw
: laws as dangerous because the
+ destroy cold storage, and thus TAX
. away the preservation of the surplu
t Of seasonable food products which
done by the cold storage system.
i Crusade Against HOOkWOrm.
e Following the cold storage sympt
q Sium the convention took up a dl
q cussion of the hookworm, DR.. Joh
A. Ferrell of the North Carolina hoo
II worm commission described tn
) means used in that State to eradica'
9 the hOOkwOrm. He said that tf
II dispensary system with it's fre
) lectures, reaching from so to 400 pei
pie daily, was the best means four