Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-16
PER GENT CURED
'sTATE aAMAToR'uMA At oAkDALE
SUCCESSFUL IN rUsERcu.
Los,s FIGHT: -
MANY PATiENrs BENT NOME
TO Loha AND -usEFuL 4'vEs

Last Stages q Disease and Only One
In Six Receives 1snstit-plsease
Latent and ofssn Unsvsp.etsd in
Earlier stasss-inhsrissd Insanity.
Special to Ttmes-RepubiiSan.
Des Moines. Dec. 1s.-Over 20 per
cent Of the incipient cases Of tuber-
culosis received 1t the state sanator-
ium are later sent away able to live
ordinary lives again and able to do
ordinary work. So DR.. H. ". Scar
borough. superintendent at Oakdale,
declared before the quarterly confer
ence Of heads Of state institutions at
the board Of control rooms today.
Dr.. Scarborough read a paper on
some sanatorium results and presented
Fan. optimistic view OF the situation.
Not all Of the cases at the sana-
Itorium are incipient. 1t is found. for
not counting those that are rejected
OF hand as beyond consideration it is
found there are 40 per cent of the pa
tents admitted who are in the last
stage of consumption. or these last
stage cases admitted to the place an
average of approximately only one in
six can be made able to return to or
binary living n work. A large ma
I5ority OF these cases will be dead at
the end of three or four years.
Many Cases Latent.
The superintendent declared thai
I nnfwffhatondir ~,,ob >Aa,A -..l1.-
ity n much investigation the full
meaning Of tuberculosis as a disease is
not yet understood The great bulk
of the cases are latent, or only semi
active, and the presence Of the disease
In this stage is mostly undiscovered
and unsupported. Many of the semi
active cases act-as carriers who, while
themselves apparently immune to
harmful effects, transmit the disease to
others with disastrous results. 1t il
from this latter class, those to whom
the disease has been given by the car
riers. that the most numerous cases are
found already beyond cure and often
beyond improvement.
Probably the most serious draw
back to our getting all possible good
results" said the superintendent, lies
in premature return of patients to their
homes. If sanatorium patients are d.
vided into two. classes, those who stay
two months or longer and those who
stay less than two months. 1t Is found
that four times as many Of the former
class are returned to work and ordin-
airy life than Of the short term cases.
Likewise over four times az many in
proportion Of the shorter term cases
are dead at h end Of three years
than Of the longer term patients"
Discussion Of Enasnios.
Dr.. Max e. Witte, the dean OF the
corps Of superintendents at the hos
pitals, in discussing before the state
conference the laws of heredity pointed
tout some important facts not gener-
ally known This led him naturally to
the subject of eugenics and he classi-
fled possible matings as follows:
Union Of normal individual with
normal individual. resulting in normal
! children only. This is the ideal mat
ing and the only one desirable from q
eugenic standpoint.
"A normal person mating with n
insane. or otherwise n%ervously abnor-
NAL, yield apparently normal offspring;
but all children are capable Of be-
queathing the defective strain to pos
terity.
1.-The mating Of a normal person with
one apparently normal, but bearing de-
fective strain, results in one-half Of
the children being actually normal,
the other half apparently but capable
of passing on defective strain.
THE mating Of a man and woman.
each apparently normal but capable of
passing on defective strain, mi n
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relatives of a family 80 constituted
should no marry.
THE union Of a person apparently
normal but with a transmisstble con-
stitutional defective strain. with n
openly defective-of the children. one
half will be apparently normal but
with transmissible defective strain.
the other half will become openly de-
ranged, under adverse provoking con-
ditions:
"The union Of the openly defective
with his or her own kind produces
only defective offspring"
Insanity Inherited.
Dr.. Witte stated hat unions under
the fifth and sixth conditions should
be absolutely prohibited and under the
second and fourth should be discour-
aged. There should be discourage
ment Of union under the third condi-
ton unless there are some exception
ally desirable traits worthy of per-
ipctuation.
"Two-thirds Of all cases Of insanity
are dependent upon the inheritance Of
q defective constitutional weakness in
the nervous system" he said. The
other third IL due to other causes not
depending upon q constitutional basis.
Insanity occurring in an unincumbered
family should be no bar to the mar
rage Of the other unaffected members.
A detective family IL apt to have MEM
bers in various charitable and correc-
tional institutions. We should have
investigations to disclose the extent Of
degeneracy in our midst for the in
lformation Of our people n that the
normal mans burden may be some
what lessened."
Your Xmas