Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-09
TYPHOID DEATH RATE
 DECREASED WHEN USE OF ALCOHOL CEASED
Dr.. Kellogg Tells Anti-SaIoon League That Mortality From Fever, Pneumonia, Etc., Has Been Greatly Reduced.

' ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July S-l l Although forty years ago the bill for alcoholic liquors was one of the larg. est items on the yearly budget of the heading hospitals of the world the use of these intoxicants as a remedy Is now largely eliminated, said Dr. J. 1T. Kellogg. of Battle Creek. Mich. | in an address before the AntiSaloon League of America here tonight Whereas alcohol was formerly relied upon as the mainstay in the treatment of typhoid fever phneumonia. and oth- Ger grave disorders, the attitude of the Headers of the medical profession in this regard was now precisely the re- verse of what it was a generation ago. | he said.
 "It is high time". he continued, that the general public should be thoroughly informed respecting the radical change of views which modern research has forced upon medical men in relation to the use of alcohol in both health and disease"
 l. DI. Kellogg quoted many author iues pointing to the harmful affects bf liquor even in the smallest doses, and in comparing the former methods of treating some diseases with alcohol, he said
 "The death rate under the old method of treating typhoid fever and
 
 perc net. That is. twenty to thirty Tout of every hundred died. Since the use of alcohol has been lessened, and water and other physiologic remedies have been substituted. the mortality from typhoid fever has been reduced .to three to five per cent Tn fact, an eminent German physician has report. ed a series of one thousand cases or typhoid fever treated by the new method without a single death and in a series of twelve thousand cases the mortality was scarcely three per cent Think of the alcohol In the twelve thousand cases at least two thousand more would have died if the old meth cd has been pursued In this country the number of deaths from typhoid fever each year is about seventy-threc . thousand If alcohol were dispensed with how many thousand might be saved? In view of these facts no in telligent physician can be justified in [ prescribing alcohol as a remedy for febrile diseases"
 "Wil the Workingman Lose His Job and His Personal Liberty If the - Saloons are Closed?" was the subject , discussed by Charles Stelzle. sociolo- gist and author, of New York, before the Convention Of the Anti-Saloon B League of America today
 |. "The workingman fears being out of work more than he does going Go fhell". he said He knows that it n means to walk the streets looking for
 job The liquor interests have cap italized upon this fear and by present ing a staggering array of figures
 which seem to prove that a calamity
 will follow the abolition of the liquor a traffic they have pursuaded large t numbers of worhngmen who never enter saloon to vote for its retention
 But the argument that the work '' ingman will lose his pob if the liquor ], traffic is abolished is based upon the o absurd proposition that if the liquor
 dealer fails to get the money now
 spent for beer and whiskey nobody e else will get it.
 "It is assumed that the farmer whC
 now sells his grain and grapes, his ap 'i pies and cherries to the liquor inter Is ests will be compelled to destroy , them when the fact Is that figure: furnished by the United States Gov
 ernment clearly indicate that the abil ,t ity of the American farmer to raise il enough grain to adequately supply
 this country is gradually decreasing 'e Neither will the railroad man sui al fer only about 2 per cent of hi s- Freight business is furnished by tho lliquor industry. He will get as muci 20 business, and as much money for the a transfer of a given amount of grain er whether that grain is shipped to
 brewer or a baker As for the trans
 portation of the furnished product, al 'n well as the raw materials which the Ii re quOr industry now furnishes, there Il
 no doubt that other industries vii
 benefit from the transfer of trade iron
 liquor 10 some other commodity.
 More workingmen lose their job
 because saloons are open than woul to be the case were the saloons to b ts closed As some one has said, WheI To liquor puts a man out of job
 makes him a wealth-producing wori n- ingman. instead of a wealth-destroyin he workingman It is better that the s' ., loonkeeper should lose his job and ge better one than that dozens of hi se patrons should lose their jobs and b 5e united for any iobP
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