The Washington herald., 1912-09-28

"the white man Is slowly becoming i'm
mune to tuberculosis, but this increas-
| ing resistance or immunity may be
strengthened and hastened by the gen.
! eral use of vaccine.
tuberculosis and other diseases con
both be prevented and cured by proper
| vaccination. This vaccine must be harm
less, and in order to get the best results
1t should be soluble"
Alcohol and Mankind.
The ravages wrought by alcohol among
at the joint session yesterday afternoon
of sections and 9-the sections on hy-
giene of occupations and demography.
The speakers included DIR. Jacques Ber-
tillon. chief Of the Bureau of Municipal
Statistics, Paris: Edward Bunnell
Phelps, editor of the American Under
writer, New York, and DR.. William F.
Boos. pharmacologist and biochemist of
the Massachusetts, General Hospital,
Boston.
Dr. Bertillon's subject was The Exist
ing Rela tions Between Phthisis Uuber-
culosis) and Alcoholism" and the noted
French savant presented statistical proof
of his statement that users of alcoholic
liquors are more susceptible to the de-
velopment OF tuberculosis than are men
or women who do not use liquor. In
group of 100000 men. DR.. Bertillon stated,
the death rate of users of alcohol far
exceeded that among men who did not
use liquor. The figures, taken from sta
tistics gathered in England. showed that,
per 100. co., the death rate Of men be-
tween the ages Of twenty-five and thirty
five showed the following division: Users
Of alcohol, 4ss: nonusers. IA Between
the ages of thirty-flve and forty-five the
rate was 579 and 245. respectively: be-
tween the ages of forty-five and fifty-five
the rate was 4o3 and PA. and between the
ages of fifty-five and sixty-five the rate
was 242 and 20.
Prcventatives Obsolete.
That the regulations of the 1nterna
tional Sanitary Convention in Paris in
1893 as regards plaques or preventive
measures are obsolete and archaic was
the statement made yesterday morning
by Assistant Surgeon General William
Colby Rucker, of the United States Pub
lie Health Service. before section meet
ing of the international Congress on Hy-
giene and Demography.
1T is time that there was an intel
ligent revision of these regulations" he
said, ito meet the present-day inter-
probation of the method of dissemina-
Ol
plague rate which We must prevent from
taking passage and we should not con-
fine our attention TO the human pas
senger".
That the United States is drawing
upon a lower social stratum of Euro
pean society for its immigration because
of its Unsuitable demand for unskilled
labor. was the verdict reached in the
symposium on immigration at one of the
~
DR.. Peter H. Brice, chief medical officer
of the Department of Interior. Ottawa,
Canada. in telling of the work there
said that process OF selection had |
gradually been evolved in Canada and a
definite scheme adopted TO divert the
increasing tide of immigration to the
western plains Of the Dominion. This
plan, he said. included bonuses to trans
portation companies Bringing bonafide
agriculturists and the accompaniment of
immigrant trains from the Eastern sea-
ports to Western centers of colonial |
ton by government officers.
Paper on Emigration.
DR.. John Constas, technical delegate |
from Greece, a physician of this city, |
read an interesting paper in the emigra- |
ton symposium of the result Of his study |
Of the question in recent years. DR.. Con- |
stas offered the following suggestions in |
connection with the immigration problem: !
Compulsory physical examination of |
emigrants before leaving their |
village for shipboard, no emigrants to be |
sold transportation except on presenta-
ton of a certificate showing the result |
Of such examination.
Distribution on board ship of literature |
On sanitation in all languages
Immigrants suspected of having been
r contact with typhoid fever and cere-
oro-spinal meningitis patients to be
treated as those who have been in contact
With other dangerous contagious dis
eases.
Distribution of literature in all Ian
yuages on landing, emphasizing sanitary
avs anc the penalties inflicted for their
breaking. Frequent illustrated lectures
,n sanitary matters in immigrant quar-
.ers.
The investing of physicians with au-
hority to enforce the sanitary laws.
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