The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-02-26
CIRDING
-HE establishing of small 1

choma hospitals IN locn titles
where his contagious eye dis
ease II prevalent presenta the best
solution Of the trachoma problem.
according to the statement contained
in the annual report OF the surgeon
general Of the United States public
health service, The service now has
i've trachoma hospitals in me three
states Of Kentucky, Virginia and West
Virginia, and So great has been the
number of applicants for .rcatment
that u waiting list has becn estab-
lishcd In the past fiscal wear 1900
eases oi trachoma have been treated.
the larger proportion Of whi"h were
cured. while those in which u cure
was aot effected have been greatly
improved and rendered harmless To
their associates. The great majority
of thes. trachoma patients were peo-
pie who lived in remote sections far
removed from medical assistance. and
who. hut for the hospital gre and
treatment provided would ave re-
manned victims Of the disease rrac-
tically the remainder Of the. lives.
When II ~ considered the re-
port OF tn. service states. that thou
sands Of persons suffering from ira
choma. a dangerous CONTAGIOUS dis
90. ur.uTI .th,,uGS. ,.tpn{p uutr.at-
I'd. b, Is realized how far-rep, hing re-
suits have bcca obtained through
these ,rachoma hospitals and the 9TH
CT public health work cone In this
connection. 1t would bc impossible
tu estimate with AN, degree II accur-
acN the number az people who haze
been raVcd from contracting this CONS
municable disease b, thus icmoving
these thousands of foci ot injection
In adton to treating persons WIN
the disease the hospitals have been
used for educational work. Doctors
ana rurscH have visited the homes of
the patients and ave explained how
to prevent the development and re
currenCe of the disease bnc thou
sand three hundred and EIGHT such
visits were made during the year iu
Kentucky alone. 1T has taken Jmc
time, the report continue. to elu-
cate IA" people afflicted with this dis
ease Ia the importance II cleanliness
and the use of simple nygieIic meas
ures In their daily life. hat results
have been obtained ~ evidenced by
the noiiceaDD better observance oi
hyeicni, precautions by those amcng
whom the work has been done
In addition to the hospital work.
surveys were made In sixteen coun-
ties In kentucky. especially among
school children. Eighteen thousand
ana sixteen people were examined.
per cent being found 10 nave ira
,homs. similar inspections in certain
localities of Arizonn. Alabama and
Florida resulted IN nding the diseas.
present IN from three To six children
uut Of every hundred. Periodic ~
animation of school children for the
disease and the exclusion of the af-
nicted from the public Schools are
two Of the cndntions the pub
lc health service laws emphasis upon.
one of the special features al the
trachoma work was the giving Of lee
lures and clinics before medical So
Dieties In various counties where ira
ohoma hospitals could not bee cs,ab-
ltshcd Patients were operated upon
~ the pTcseuc, OF physicians and the
most modern methods OF treatment
demonstrated Thruushout, the pur-
pose has been to stimulate" local IN
tcres, IN taking up IN. campaign to
eradicate trachomn.
NITRIC NID.