The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-27
facts prove just the reverse.

the facts prove just the reverse.
 The speaker said he made an inves- tigation of 4,50o patients in sanitor1- uns throughout New England and New York state covering a period of eight years and could not find one tubercular female employed at polish ing, buffing or grinding and but four teen males. The state sanitoriums for two years ending October 1, 1914, ad- nitted SIS females, of which 3e7 were engaged as housewives servants and not more than 80 employed in all the factories and mills of the state.
 He said tuberculosis is a germ dis ease and it is easily communicated. He believed the best results are obtained by getting the employees of factories, mills and stores, also outdoor work ers.s to contribute g. little sum of money toward the work of fighting the disease and that in this way their interest would be increased. If an ena- ployee should have a hacking cough, or have high sweats, or have a fever in the afternoon, he should be advised to go to a physician at once, as these are symptoms of tuberculosis and the earlier the person afflicted takes the cure, the better his chances will be to get we'll
 People have been led to believe,'' said MT. Gunshanan, That tubercu- losis is caused by various forms of employment, that people are more easily susceptible to tuberculosis in some employments. But after you 1n- yestigate you are led to wonder what is a healthy occupation. People may that would be very productive of con- sumptive cases We thought go in Connecticut, until we looked into 1t and studied things from the workers standpoint. However, the death rate among weavers from tuberculosis fs | A 11.a work in damp cellars. bakers who work in warm cellars and policemen who are out in the air, the death rate from the disease is s23 per cent. Among bookkeepers, who are employed in nice clean offices, it is 35 per cont, while it is only B per cent. among cigar makers. The most healthy occupation known is coal mining, where the death rate from tuberculosis is only per cent; outdoor trades are: plumbers, s5; painters. B; masons, 1s, and car- penters" IS.
 ''TubercuIosis in ats various forms claimed 96, sos victims in 1914, of which number 24, ,366 died from tuberculosis of the lungs Qnc1uding acute military tuberculosis). As a result of a more general understanding of the laws of health, there has been a, most marked decrease during recent years in the mortality from this scourge of cIvi1i- zation, In only a decade, from 19O4 to 1914, the death rate from tIIber- culosis in all it's forms fell from 20O.T to 146.S per 100000 the decline being continuous from year to year, Even yet, however, tuberculosis has the gruesorne distinction of causing more deaths annually than any other form of bodily illness except the heart dis eases and over more than 70 per cent. of all external causes: accidents, hon- icides and suicides combined'
 This statement is taken from an in Ivestigation by U. s. Census Bureau in the registration area which contained about two-thirds of the population of the entire United States.
 'Persf'lls engaged in the prepara tioFl and handling of food in public places in New York city are required to pass a medical examination before being al- lowed to continue their vocation Hun tuberculosis and venereal diseases and Connecticut is being made the dump ing ground for these undesirables.
 ''The only cure for tuberculesis is fresh air and sunshine. rest of the mind as well as the body and plenty of good, wholesome food and this re- quires money, and how much nicer 1t is to contribute to buy the necessar1es of life flor these unfortunate sick to restore them to health than to proionz it and then be requested to contribute to buy flowers for their graves
 In closing MT. Gunshanan said:
 The National Association for the Prevention and Study of Tuberculosis have recently announced that the Elm ployes' Tuberculosis Relief Associa- tions of Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport are the best associations