The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-09
tuberculosis IS Medical
and Sociological Problem

L Washington, May 9.-A physician
and socioloGist discussed the tuher
4 culosis problem today bctorc tn
ninth annual meeting of the <auona
Association Tor the Study ana Pre-,
vention 81 tuberculosis. each from
the standpoint OF his profession. Etcl
Acknowledged the value OF THE uth.r's
work. hut insisted that Fundamentally
his own profession was best equipped
tn deal with the problem The rapcrs
were presented ny Or. William Charles
4 White, medical director az IN" Tuhcr.
culosis league Of Pittshurs, and John
Z. Commons. Of the Wisconsin indus
trial commission, professor 81 political
ECONOMY ia The Cniyersity If VIZ
yonsin.
one of the burning questions Of The
day, said DR.. White, is whether tn
! tcrculosis is sociological az medi-
cal problem. That such discussion
goes on, probably proves That II is
/ both. We are seeking to discover il
/ The sociologlst should cmpl ~ TIA" .oc-
/ tor, or The doctor employ tht social
worker or. Will the time com. when
an doctors and nurses will he social
WORKERS. ana All social workers. dee
TOPS or nurses.
"On The long path hy whth OR
present knowledge has come all the
mlestones are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
BayIe. Laennec. Morton. Nnlemin,
Koch, Trudeau and many others No
social worker. so far rs ] know. has
contributed any great advance
THE social worker may be- called
the drum heater before The dopr IL the
booth. lie shouts L. the program
ready prepared. He shifts his work
from tuberculosis To child hygiene.
s,s ial diseases. ana associated chart
ties. as readily as IN" stock company
ecior chanees his PLAY. ana Yet that
man has 40 message VINO j. too fas-
udious &C. beat the drum ut The door
or lis booth. The reason for The So
cal worker in tuberculosis will be
.ouud in the exclusion of tuberculosis
from general hospitals ana other places
OF medical teaching, and consequent
ignorance of doctors ana nurses on
the whole question of this maladH as
a public health problem. The doctors
that do know find more ready re-
spouse 10 their teaching among the
Intelligent laity than among the pro-
frssion. There is now. however, 4
healthy movement to return this scv-
euth oi the worlds sickness Ia its
prcner place in the hospital ana med
ical school.
'rhe majority Of the problems in
with the tuberculosis qucs-
lion. Spch as immunity. h"rrdity,
chemistry Of hung and tuherclr hac-
ims cure. food values, etc, are med
ioal in their nature, and must be
solved by those of medical training.
The social side Of the question comes
down 20 more and better food and
better living conditions"
The physician. said Prof Com
mons starts with the individual. The |
soclologis, starts with his institutions.
The physician looks on other mdivid- |
uals as sources OF contaGion or in
f. ZION. Th- schoolgirl looks on them
a. owners OF property The one sees
hem a- physiological units; TN" 9TH
cr as pssscssars Of power, or of in
property which wc call OPP
portuniry
Tuberculosis and occupational dis
ease safety ana sanitation, infant
hours of labor of women nnd
Chiiiren-theSc are some of tn" h"ldS
- scientific research and government
Of administration where IN" physician
ana sociologist meets. Herc the ply
stefan must get hevond physiology.
contaeicn and Infection, AMI deal with
The Institutions al property. IA" fam
ily and the state that max" environ
m,nt what il is Here 'ha IcinloS-
isl must get into physiology and path
olosy, II ne would not 90 wronE in
,caiing with institutions.
The difference shows itself in adj
Compare board or
health with bureau Of labor. Whcn
u board of health determines that
small-poy or diphtheria Is aii"at /,
rides over each property right ana
personal right Of the individual II
marks or a dead line OF quarantine.
II becomes policemen. calls cat the
militia, declares martial la", sets
aside the fourteenth amendment. But