Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-24
NO injury WILL
DEFY THE KNIFE
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the quick lunch' rooms to the diners
at sumptuous city hotels, from the
simple wayside inn to the banquet
halls and casinos and boarding
houses. was chosen by Dr. M Clayton
Thrush, of Philadelphia.
THE great dangers of these eating
Places" he pointed out ARE the per-
sonnet of the help and the quality of
the foodstuffs
The great danger of infection is
from class of people who are par
ticularly prone to transmissibe dis
eases, as they are carelss about their
personal cleanliness. Employment
bureaus have a duty in this SANTA
ton crusade. They can render in
valuable assistance. The subject is
OF Importance to all industries which
manufacture food and meat products,
such as preserving and canning fac
tories, etc.
DIR. Thrush continued on the danger
of the common method of displaying
vegetables on slanting frames along
sidewalks, where they are exposed TO
dust and flies and how to remedy it;
recent regulations of the department
of health of the commonwealth of
eating houses, especially applicable to
the dishes and cooking utensils, and
the common roller towel the value of
the pure food and drugs act, the i'm
portance of pure drinking water TO
public health and how to attain it,
y and the suggestion of proper sanitary
measures for State legislatures,
which, IL enacted, would produce the
results which are desired, clean hands,
pure food. wholesome water sanitary
homes and healthy people.
Every Child Has Tuberculosis.
by the time every child in the
United States reaches maturity it is
infected with tubercle bacilli and is
possible candidate for tuberculosis"
declared DIR. Mary e. Lapham, of
Highlands, N. c., in her address on
THE Prevention of tuberculosis by
the Periodic Examination of School
i Children"
/ Every child's future depends upon
its ability to withstand this danger
and to live in safety with the in
! vaders," she continued. Since there
is no possible way to prevent this in
lection, and there Is always the pos
sibility that the child will have tuber-
culosis, what shall we do to protect
it?,~Good health, hygienic living, san
itary surroundings and absence of ex-
posture to tubercle bacflli are the
greatest help in maintaining resist
ance, but they cannot guarantee sue
cess because the strongest children
living under the most ideal conditions
die frequently OF tuberculosis.
I'VE can neither prevent the infec-
ton nor keep il from developing. and
the best we can do is to find out the
danger in time and overcome 1t. The
true prevention of tuberculosis con-
sists in finding il out in time. Detec-
ton is life and delay death. Time Is
the very essence of safety The med
ical inspectors of our schools can pro
tect their children. There are 2O,OOO'-
900 school children and l,Ooo.ooo nave
tuberculosis. To permit child TO de-
veIop tuberculosis Is blunder and
crime"
Bone and Joint Cases.
Some of the results obtained by
the use of orthopedic surgery were
shown in the illustrated ADDRESS ON
Bone and Joint Cases. by Dr'
Michael Hoke and DR.. F. G. Hodg-
son, of Atlanta, Ga.
Pictures of a case Of congenltal clup
feet taken before operation were
shown. The feet were so badly de-
formed that the child stood on the
back of his feet; the soles were turned
upward and backward. The next pic
lures showed the child standing
straight on his feet in perfectly
normal position
In order to show that the feet are
perfectly good and useful feet by
means of moving pictures, the cnllu
was shown walking and running Juse
as any other normal and happy chllo
would.
Another group of pictures showed
case of paralytic club foot IN an
adult woman, before and after opera
ton, with moving pictures showing
the patient walking with perfectly
straight foot. Two other cases showed
how a perfectly stiff knee JOINT was
operated on and a new movable ana
perfectly stable and useful knee joint
was. formed. The moving pictures
showed the patients moving the knees
backward and forward, and walking
with practically no limp at all.
other series of pictures showed how
a piece of bone may be taken from
one part of the body Casually from
the shin bone) and grated into the
weak back of bunch back; made to
grow in the spine and form rigid
support for the weakened and dis
eased spine Other series of pictures
Illustrated other conditions and the
results obtained by modern ortho-
pedic operations.
Some Reforms Advocated.
This years session has already
taken higher ground with regard TO
recommendations than in any previ-
Gus year. A higher standard for en-
trance into medical schools is one of
the recommendations. A more gem
eral cooperation of the practitioner
| with the layman is another. Unre-
| lenting war on nostrums is still an
/ other. Probably the most radical
, suggestion yet made is that the pub
lie welfare would be consulted if
every man, woman and child were
to be subjected to a compulsory ex-
animation as to physical fitness once
in every year.
The infant incubator has been more
of a failure than a success, Dr. f.
Chaplin, of New York, reported in a
paper before the section on diseases
of children. Out of $50 personal ex-
periences with the incubator for in
fants, he could not report one salts
factory result, death resulting in the
great majority of instances. He
urged that the house of delegates be
asked to declare against its further
use.
The specialists were surprised bY
figures presented by Professor Her
man Kuttner. of Breslau, Germany,
one of the experts in this line of
surgery of Europe, who related that
forty of 100 cases treated by surgery
where the diagnosis had been brain
tumor had failed to save the life of
the patient.
DIR. Harvey Gushing. Boston brain
spaeiaIfst in discussing the Cyerma n