The Washington herald., 1914-05-09
insure PHTHISIS
Victims, IS CRY
tuberculosis Secretaries
Would Make Sufferers
Burden Easier.
SUCCESSFUL In EUROPE
Recommendation Made for Legislative
SUCCESSFUL In EUROPE
Recommendation Made for Legislative
Bureau to Codify Laws Re-
sarding Disease.


Insurance against tuberculosis for the
relief of victims Of the white plague
was recommended at the dinner of the
National Conference of tuberculosis
Secretaries last night at the New Eb-
bitt House. This society Is part Of the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention Of tuberculosis. which has
been holding its tenth annual conven-
ton at the New Willard.
In the report of the committee legisla-
ton, read py John Shlllady, of New
York ii is recommended that a bureau
Of legislation be established in the Office
Of the National Association. This bureau
would be charged with the duty Of
codifyinE existing laws regarding tuher-
culosis, and promoting uniform laws
upon the subject. II was along with
this that the committee recommended
that the subject OF insurance also be
considered.
1t was shown that in England and
Germany such insurance has been trial
with success. II is a governmental in
stitutiCn. TIL" State, employer and en-
ploye all contribute to the premiums.
As in those countries. IL is proposed that
men and women in shops, stores and
factories here be so insured against the
disease that in case of infection they
will have ample means for treatment
and all necessaries of life until they
are able to resume earning their own
living.
Friedman Cure" Condemned.
Declaring the friedman turtle serum"
vaccine. claimed by its discoverer to cure
or prevent tuberculosis, has neither pre-
ventive nor curative powers. DIR. George
Mannheimer. of New York. addressing the
It,,ta do, n
cd the so-called treatment and gave a
final report on a number Of cases that
were treated in March. 1913
In only a single case out of eighteen,
declared DIR. Mannheimer, had the dis
ease appeared to be arrested. and even
this patient. he said, has not gained in
weight in more than a year, while a new
tubercular process has developed in an
other part of the patients body.
I'm March, 1873" said Or. Mannheimer.
eighteen Patients were treated under my
supervision. OF these. fifteen can be
followed up. and Of that number three
are dead. The number of injections in
these cases were one, two and four. re-
spectively. or the remaining twelve pa
tients ten received one, and two received
four injections. Five of the ten patients
who received one injection developed alb
scesses at the site OF the injection and
were, therefore, unsuitable for further
injections. according to the inventor. The
other five patients were not reinjected,
either because they did not see the i'm
provement they had been led to expect
or because they had become worse and
had lost confidence in Friedman. AS to
their present condition, five of them are
now unchanged and five are worse than
a year ago.
aIuI
Discussing the subsequent history of
cases discharged from tuberculosis sana-
tCria. Dr. Charles p. Bolduan, medical
officer OF the New York city department
Of health declared that energetic steps
must be taken to provide employment in
the open air, to compel proper ventilation
of the home and to stop advising and
Eegin issuing positive commands in the
cases of persons who have been dis
charged as improved from such sana-
toria.
That various forms of exercise aside
from walking may he found beneficial in
the treatment of tuberculosis patients III
was the statement contained in
a paper read by DIR. Charles W. Milo, of
n. Y. who was assisted in the
of the paper by DR.. Herbert
Maxon King. of Liberty. Wood chopping. |
road making. horseback riding. etc, ii
was stated, had been found beneficial.
Surgical methods of treating tubercu-
ous patients were described in a paper |
oy DR.. Edward Archibald OF Montreal |
who told of benefits which in selected |
cases have followed artificial collapse Of
an affected lungs
hree Washington men were honored |
at the annual election of officers. DR. |
George NJ. Kober was chosen as presi- |
ient of the association. and William II
was elected treasurer and men,
Gen. Rupert Blue, of the United States
public health service, was made a men,
Der of the board Of directors.
The two vice presidents elected were
DR.. Lee X. Frankel. of New York, and
DR.. W. Jarvis Barlow, Of Los Angeles
The new secretary of the association Is
DR.. Henry Barton Jacobs OF Baltimore.
Members of the executive committee,
in addition to Mr.. Baldwin. are DR.. Her
mann NJ. Biggs, New York; Homer
Folks. New York; DR.. Theodore B.
Sachs. Chicago; DR.. David r. Lyman,
Conn: DR.. Charles J. Hat
field. Philadelphia, and DR.. William
Charles White. of Pittsburgh.
The newly elected board OF directors is
Dr.. Livingston Farrand. Boulder. Col.
l.. Hoffman, Newark, n. j.;
Dr. Lawrason Brown, Saranac Lake, n
T.: DIR. James Alexander Miller, New
Fork: DR.. Charles L. Minor, AsheviIle,
Y. c.: A. L. Mills. Portland, Ore: Dr.
Rupert Blue. Washington. d. c.: DR.. II.
R. NJ. Lands, Philadelphia, Pa; s. Liv-
ngston Mather. Cleveland. Ohio: Or.
David r. Lyman, Wallingford, Conn:
John Mitchell, New York. and DIR. S. A.