Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-21

10 HeSeSSdFy as a proIectlon against IN
fection.
Says Cancer Is Not IncurabIe
Regarding cancer, the speaker as
serted that preventive treatment ant
early operations are the only weapon!
that society can use effectively agains
this malignant growth. The public
must be urged, he said, to have doe
tor examine every wart, mole o.
growth of any kind as soon as it ap
pears. Any apparently insignificant
wound that refuses to heal, he &c
cancerous growth. He declared tha
cancer is not incurable. 1t is tho
frequent failures to cure in advanced
cases, he maintained, that has dis
couraged the public.
Urges Board OF Regents
The doctor advocates the establish
ment of Board of Regents, similar
to the Board in New York, to take the
place of the numerous State board,
that now license practitioners. At the
present time the granting of license:
lies entirely within the power of the
medical profession. This, according t.
the doctor, is bound, sooner or latel
to cause dissatisfaction among osteo.
paths, optonletrists and other practi.
tioners who do not use medicine.
| The board proposed would be com.
|
clans 1t would be guided in granting
! licenses only by merit and intelligence
| of the application alone, regardless ol
methods.
DR.. John B. McAlster, of this city
| president of the State Medical Society
presided to-day at the opening ses.
sion of the siXty-ffth annual conven.
ton of the society being held in the
| Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia
The meeting this year is expected &C
| be the most important in the so.
| ciety's history. Other addresses or
the program of the day were made by
John Price Jackson, Commissioner OF
Labor and Industry, who spoke on
Pennsylvania Relation to Industrial
G.. Dixon, who told how the Depart.
ment of Health of Pennsylvania prac.
| tices quarantine of homes.
Clinics were held yesterday in the
Philadelphia hospitals. One hundred
| and siNty-six operations were per
formed in % institutions. Drs. George
r. Moffit, Charles S. Rebuck and CIar.
ence r. Phillips are three other physi.
clans from this city who are sched-
uled to take part in the program.
Jackson's Address
Commissioner John Price jackson, oi
the Department of Labor and Indus
try, in his address, appealed for the
earnest cooperation of physicians ir
all sections of the State in advancing
the work of the Department of Labor
and Industry.
1T is with unusual earnestness that
/ come before you to-day to indicate
some of the activities of the Depart
ment for which l am responsible to
the Governor, said Commissioner
Jackson.
Il ask particularly your earnest CO.
operation, both individually and col
lectively. in advancing especially the
three most important aims of the. De-
partment, the protection of the ply
sical welfare of children and women
workers, the development of standards
for the health, and safety of all in
dustrial workers, and the enforcement
in a reasonable and sensible manner
of the Accident Compensation Law in
such way that it may accomplish its
humane and desirable purposes.
Commissioner Jackson enunciated
as most important function of the
Department the promotion of methods
and procedure to reduce the terrific
toll of life and limb and health caused
by industrial accidents, vocational di-
seases and unsanitary conditions in
working places.
He outlined in detail the most inn
portant divisions created in the De-
partment by the legislature as the in
dustrial Board, which establishes
safety regulations for the various
classes of industries; the Bureau ot
Inspection, which determines II safety
and health precautions are properly
observed in industrial plants, Gamer
les, bake-shops. motion picture houses
and similar places; the Bureau o
Statistics and Information, which col
leets data regarding industrial acci
dents and the Division of Hygiene anC
! Engineering, an expert body in tn,
Bureau of Inspection which investi
gates conditions and determines rene
dies in work places where unusua
conditions arise. He pointed out tina
the Bureau of Statistics is now receiV
ing reports of accidents at the rate o
60,000 a year and that this number Il
sufficient to show the appalling char
acter of the loss occasioned through
injury.
1T is probable" he said. "tha
equally as many employees are put ou
of commission annually through vo
cational diseases, poor sanitary ar
rangements, imperfect lighting, BAT
ventilation and other influences bu
as there has been no machiner,
created for obtaining detailed report
upon such cases, except where related
to poisonous industries specific infor
! IL.
The Commissioner called attention
to the important services that physi
clans in the State will be called upoI
to perform after January /, 1916
when the Workmen's Compensation
Act becomes effective and when tn,
nature of accidents sustained by EN-
ployes will be determined by physi
clans to establish the amount and dur
alton of compensation payment unde,
the provisions of the law.
The report of the Cancer Commits
sion stated that large majority o.
these deaths are unnecessary aat
could have been avoided if health off
cials and physicians had been alert
in recognizing early symptoms.
One of the recommendations made
by the commission was that the State
Examining Boards for trained nurse.
as well as for doctors include amone
their requirements thorough knowI.
edge of the early recognition and
early treatment of cancer 1t was
pointed out that the hope for clint
mating the scourge lies not in radical
operations in advanced cases, but in
early treatment Any wart, pimple OF
stubborn core of any kind is a potent
ial cancer, the report stated, and
should be reported and treated as
! soon as 1t is discovered.