Albuquerque morning journal., 1916-10-13
PROPOSED KENT
BILL DISCUSSED
BY AUTHORITIES
Member of California State.
Board of Health Favor8
Measure While Others Do.
Not,

The Albuquerque sectional confer
ence ON tuberculosis held its opening
sessions here Yesterday. The meet
ings are being held under the auspices
OF the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
The morning session for medical
men and health officers was held in
The parlors of the Commercial club.
and attended by more than 100 doc
tors from widespread parts of the
country
The first number was an able dis
cussion on THE Infectousness of Tu-
bercuosis," by DR.. Gerald b. Webb,
of the Cragmor sanitorium, Colorado
Springs, stating that when proper san
itary care is taken there is very lltIe
danger Of infection. Following, Dr.
Twichell of Albuquerque led dis
cussion Of Dr Webb's paper and Dr.
Edward skinner, Of Kansas city, dis
cussed the use Of the N-ray with tu-
berculosis.
The afternoon session at the Pres
byterian church resolved irsclf into an
earnest discussion, pro and con, Of
the proposed Kent subsidy bill. The
two factions, though both working for
the interest of the INDECENT and mi
gratory consumptivc, differed in their
ideas Of method. While the Kent bill
advocates admitted There Wera faults
in the proposal, they declared it was
decidedly better than n9th ng, and The
Is cents a day rro,ided thus by the
government could not but be a great
help; but their opponents claimed that
the bill offered even more induce
ments to the afflicted casternor to
leave his friends in scarce Of he life-
giving climate of the west and become
dependent upon the mercy of strang-
ers.
Miss Tate Gives Discussion.
Miss Edith l.. NJ. Tate, Of the Cali
fornia state board of health opened
the meeting, telling of the problems
enormity in her home state, of the
ovcrcrowded condition of sanitoriums,
how the best care that could be given
was wretched, and of how much fed
eral or other aid was needed. She
gave instances of how men far gone
with the diseases rayages were.fogoed
to go to work in the municipal wood
yards in order to receive lodging and
Of how others, too weak to work, had
thrown rocks through windows to
gain the shelter Of Jail
Then Miss Gertrude Eail'e Of Den
yer, gave her motives for opposing the
measure. Climate said Miss Nallle,
'is but one element in the cure Of tu-
berculosis, and at that minor one
proper food ana care being the factors
of supreme importance" The Kent
bill as it stands she believes would
be a menace to the west by encourag-
ing immigration Of penniless consump-
tives,
DR.. Livingston Farrand, for ten
years secretary of the National Tuber-
culosis association, also opposed the
bill, saying that the proper method of
fighting the question was by education
of the eastern people that dry eli
mate was not as important in fighting
the plague as is generally understood
that with proper care the patient
could do much better among his
friends, away from the pangs of home
sickness.
Dr. J. B. Gwinn, of El Paso, and
DR.. Charles c. Browning, of Los An
goles, each then made brief summar-
les of the foregoing talks and the floor
was opened for general discussion.
Dr. Farrand speaks.
NT,I,,,nII go G4IultH
to preside at the Crystal theater night.
meeting but as he was unable to at
tend the chair was filled by Or Webb
The first address of the evening, "a
State Equipped 10 Fight Tuberculo-
sis" was very ably handled by DIR.
Farrand, who is president of the col
orado university Though there are