Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-09-27
FINE ADDRESSES
DELIVERED BEFORE
NATIONAL CONGRESS
"The Chicago Stock Yards Is A
Gray NeighborhoOd."
EXPERTS TALK ABOUT
MANY DISEASES
Sewerage Systems of the Cities EH-
planned and Many Valuable Sug-
sestions are oHered-Diseases and
Prevention Come in for Their Share
of Recognition.
of Recognition.

FTeFSnelon Tome IN TOT Inelr snare
of Recognition.
Washington, Sept 24.--"The Chi
cago stock yards is a gray neighbor-
hood, declared DR.. Caroline Hedgcr.
of Chicago, in her address here today
before the National Congress ON Hy-
giene and Demography.
Speaking of the children of the
stock yards district DR. Hedger said
''ln the region in which they live, the
smoke comes down in clouds and with
it 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.
IF the child grows inactive, discon-
tented, becomes idle and a criminal,
asked the doctor. lis 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. a dangerous malady
contracted nv mon who ,Uprl, In o0p,-
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 a 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.
ut 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"
I In an address before the Congress
on Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, DR., Alb.
raham Sophan, of the Department OF
/ Health, New York City, stronly en-
dorsed the use of vaccination as pre-
yentive 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 PEG
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 to their neighbors."
There are few diseases that can be
as easily eradicated as rabies de
clared Prof Henry Albert, of the Iowa
I University, in an address here today
before THE Congress.
He presented a system, which, il
carried out, he thought would drive
the last vestige of hydrophobia from
the North American continent II
has already been done, he declared
by Great Britain, Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, and said he, IF the
example offered by these countries
were followed the world over rabies
as disease soon would lose all its
terrors for both the human kind an(
the animal kind"
Prof Albert would insist that al
dogs be licensed, and that all dogs moi
provided with a collar and license
tag should be destroyed. lie woulC
further require that when rabies i.
present in a given place. all dogs per
mited to run at large should bemuz
zled and kept muzzled for six months
at least.
lie said would also insist that al
dogs imported into this coutry SHOULD
he held in quarantine for at least siN
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
had more cases of hydrophobia than
any other state. II headed the list
with 699 persons bitten by mad dogs
or animals presumed to be mad Geor
gia was second with 4S5, Ohio third
with 40 and South Carolina fourth
with $50
Aside from T. Kennard Thomson
the subject Of Caisson Disease or the
, Bends was discussed by Dr. Peter
Bassoe OF Rush Medical College, Chi
case Henry Japp OF the American
Society OF Civil Engineers ana Dr. Sc
ward Erdman, instructor in Clinical
Surgery, Cornell University Medical
College
"Of all the Occupauonal diseases
which follow in the train of advancing