Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Despite tn indictment weather, one ot the largest meetings that White Cross council, No 13 Knights of Columbus, has held this season, assembled in the council chamber in the Steiner build ing on Friday evening. The meeting was opened promptly at 8 p. III. by Grand Knight Henry D. Buckley. large amount of routine business was transacted, which included the election of four new members and the reception of twelve applications for mem bershlp It was announced that more than $2OO had been the net result of the annual reception and ball recently given by the council in the armory.
 The committee appointed to look up permanent quarters for the council re- ported that they had a number Of places under consideration. Announce ment was also made that the 30th an niV ersary of the formation of the co. sn- cil would be observed on Monday evening" Feb 16th. A programme Of exercises which will include an ad- dress by State Deputy William J. Mul- Iigan has been arranged for that occa- sion AS the next regular meeting of the council would occur on Friday evening Feb. 20th, the date of the an nual charity ball, it was voted to dis pense with that meeting and hold the meeting on Monday, Feb. f6th.
 The meeting was then taken in charge by the lecturer M. J. Coscoran, who announced that Dr. Edward J. Lynch of the state tuberculosis sana- torium had consented to address the meeting on Tuberculosis, Prevention and Sanatorium Treatment Dr. Lynch. who is member of Bernado council. No. 1850, of Shelton, was given an enthusiastic reception when he arose to speak He said in part:
 In 1882 came the demonstration by Robert Koch, of the specific cause of Tuberculosis. The thoroughness of KOch's work is manifested by the fact, that in the years that have elapsed the innumerable w1'kers have ampli- fled and extended but in no way essen tiaIly modified his original position. During the past thirty years we have been gradually getting accommodated to the new views, the most important single effect of which has been world wide crusade against TubercT- loSis as a preventable disease.
 The most important single fact in the distribution of the disease in ami mals is it's widespread prevalence in bovines, from which nearly all the milk and d large proportion of our meat are derived. In man, tubercu lcsis is his most universal scOurge, well deserving the epithet bestowed upon it by Bunyan of the Captain of the Men of Death" It is estimated that at least one-seventh of all deaths Ire uu6 lO It, III ILllS ldllU dllO " dies there were 54, ,435 deaths from Tuber- culosis in1909, in the United States il is estimated that il is responsible for about one-ninth of the deaths annual ly. The baciIli are found in all tu- berculous Iesions in the sputum of tubercuIous persons. they may be present in countless numbers, and are widely scattered and found in carrying numbers wherever human beings are crowded together. There are two chief sources-the eXpectoratiou of persons with advanced disease of the lungs and the milk of tuberculosis COWS. From a patient with moderately advanced disease it has been estimat- ed that from one and One-half to four and one-third billions of bacilli were thrown off each twenty -four hours. Allowed to dry the sputum becomes dust and is distributed for and wide. Scores of experiments have shown the presence of the bacill in dust samples from public buildings, streets, rail way carriages and various localities. From the street tuberculosis sputum may be brought into the house on shoes, on the long skirts of women etc. Ii is interesting to note that in Sanatoria, the dust as shown by ex- periments with dust samples which have carried out at the state Sanatoria are free from tubercle bacilli.
 Those Susceptible.
 Fortunately the human body is not a good culture media for the tubercle bacili, the adult human individual in normal health seems to be practically immune to natural infection and yet one-seventh of the human race die of tuberculosis. because in numerous ways they render themselves suscepti ble by lowering the resistance of the body forces. Dwcllers in cities. in the dark close alleys and tenement houses, workers in cellars and illvent- Hated rooms, persons addicted to drink are much more prone to the disease
 Prevention Treatment.
 The prevention of tuberculosis is so essentially related to the treatment that Q discussion of this phase of the subject is called for. People every where are alive to the preventable character of this disease and never be- fore has both lay and professional in terests in this phase of the subject been more widespread. It is inter I esting to review briefly certain figures of an official character. showing the incidence of this disease From the