Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-06-01

lars OF yearly earnings All three Of
these Investigations OF four years ago
are now confirmed by Prof. Fishers
estimate for 1912, and they all sub
stantially agree In the conclusion that
the annual actual monetary loss to So
ciety from tuberculosis, without count
ing the losses TO the victims of the
disease themselves, exceeds half a
billion dollars a year. The figure for
this social loss viii reach at least
$50 ,000, 900.
III In the same way we calculate the
losses to the victims themselves, in
Guiding losses before death and the
capitalized earning power cut off by
death. we reach still larger sum,
making the total loss wei! above a bill
lion a year. These cold calculations
take no account. of course, of the fact
that a mans own life Is worth more
to him than the earnings he expects
1t to bring, and that the loss of none
tary support is not the chief loss
which widows and orphans suffer from
the death of a loved husband and
father.
In the paper on Employment of Pa
tents After Leaving tuberculosis
Sanatoria, DIR. W. J. vogeler, Medical
rector Of the Spraln Ridge Sanator,
ium. Yonkers, New York said in part:
The majority of textbooks and ar
tlcles on tuberculosis have heretofore
advocated outdoor employment for
tscharged patients. DIR. A. M. Fors-
ter and others for instance, advise the
establishment OF farm colonies for
these patients. According to our ex-
perience, this is unwise. owing to the
exposure TO the hot sun in summer.
and 1t seems also to be economically
wrong. because most people would OBJ
1eet to vegetables raised by tubercu-
losis patients.
AT Sprain Ridge Sanatorium in
fonkers' we have decided to send all
our patients back to their former oc-
equations in the factories and shops
believing that the taking up oc new
occupations would necessitate greater
mental labor in the adjustment to
new conditions and would besides en-
tan lower wages. We have found that
those who returned to their old occu-
pations. unless they were distinctly
harmful did better than those who
took up new ones. Certain occupa-
lions, however, such as motormen
conductors, drivers. etc, we consider
distinctly harmful, and we have ad
vised against them, ever though the
patients were accustomed to them be-
fore admission to the sanatorium."
The Visiting Nurse and Tubercu-
losis Control" "The New Jersey Tn.
berculosis Exhibit" 1.-THE East River
Homes Foundation" and the estab-
ilshment of a Home Hospital in New
York city, We're the subjects of papers
read at this mornings session of the
association.
The paper on the New York Home
Hospital was read by John A. Kings.
bury, general agent of the New York
Association for the Improvement of
the Condition of the Poor
The Home Hospital" ne said. sis
new experiment in the home treat.
ment of combined poverty and tuber.
culosis. Its purposes is, first. to give
adequate and wise relief to a number
OF needy families in which there Is
tuberculosis; and, second, In so doing
10 find out whether il is possible-in
sanitary tenement, under wise medi.
cal direction and constant nursing
oversight, with adequate relief and
freedom from undue worry, annie
fresh air and sunshine. and room for
reasonable segration-to prevent the
spread of tuberculosis from the sick
10 the well members OF the family.
and particularly to protect the chill.
dren from infection, to cure some of
those in the early stages of the dis
ease, and TO afford considerable i'm. I
proyement to patients whose cases
are only moderately advanced.
The hospital has been establish /
ed in section of the East River
homes, popularity called the Wander.
bit Tenements." Twenty.three fam.
lies have been chosen fer the expert
ment which is to cover three years
Every effort will be made to care for
The patients in their homes as well
as they could be cared for in hos.
pitfalls, While the association will bear
much of the expense. the able-bodied
members of the twenty-three families
VIII also be obliged to contribute 10
heir support The association estima.
es the expense at about $4,000 a
rear.
The experiment was launched on
April l, and at the present time the ,
wenty-three families have been in. ,
tailed and the outlook for success is |
cry promising" 4
Miss Lillian d. Wald, director of the
henry Street Settlement. discussing |
he visiting nurse and her relations ,
tuberculosis control, said that sue Z
essive steps taken In The anti-tuber- {
ulosis campaign, such as hospital S
are re, Tor adyanced cases. seggegalioQ