The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-03-20
An IMPORTANT EPOCH IN
TuBERCULOSIs CAMPAIGN

importance OF the announcement of n
new technical tuberculosis journal,
The American Review Of Tubercuio.
Wis Up to the present, the most i'm.
portnnt phase In the campaign against
this disease has been popular educa-
ton Exhibits. lectures. and pamph-
let's, prepared IL the most elementary
terms. have FOR the past fifteen years
brought home 90 the mass OF the go.
Pile clearly and definitely that this
dread disease. which annually takes q
toll ~ 2d0. 600 valuable human lives IN
this country alone. Is p~reyentable M
durable ir It's early stages. Thes"
methods have pretty thoroughly dia-
PEELED the ancient idea that tuherculo.
is hereditary that oncc IL Is fast.
% upon . human being there Is no
hope Tho campaign has thrown light
into many p dark corner. II has in
si,llod hope In many a breast where
before there hod been only despair.
~ has brought a new appreciation %
the value ~ human life and the I'M
p%orinnce of disease %prcvntion In an
fields ~ health work. rho campaign
has been probably one 81 the MOST
Important factors in the new appre-
cation ~ the importance Of pre-
Eoutive methods.
n is encouraging 20 realize that be-
hind an OF this emphasis on popular
education there has been q most sub
stautial basis OF scientific research and
The development Of an important mass
81 special technique. Many. even the
mast thoughtful layman. however. will
no doubt h" surprised that the quiet
cr side Of the tuberculosis campaign
has grown TO such proportions that
u Demands for It's proper expression
% monthly publication. comparable IN
purpose TO the many technical medical
Journals already in existence.
In it, editorial announcement ne
Review nys.
1T is only within the last five or
ton years that our knowledge OF the
relations OF infection ~ disease has
taken definite form. Years aEo an eletc
Few had a glimps" into the probe bility
tna to be a civilized human being
was 20 be tuberculosis n that only
70 few of the myriad Of the tubercu-
lous and that only a few OF the myfi-
IDS ~ the tuberculous ever develop
ID tuberculosis. But at the time tho
facts wrre not at hand TO warrant
positive statement. To-day they aret
And II anyone doubts that We ~
learned much and have tralevclled a
long way since 1905 let him read a
work on tuberculosis OF today ana
contrast the point OF view with that
held ten years ago or let him read
the writings Of Or. Trudeau consccu-
lively beginning about 1890 and end
ingin 1915. He will see how timidity
of statement gradually hardens into
-posiuveness and here and there, evoly-
90 even into pregnant prediction as
the hard won facts come iu-all to
slowly sometimes yet uninterNptediy %
The health forces Of this country
ma find much encouragement in the
results achieved by the anti-tubercu .
losis movement IN the last ten years.
In 1905 the death rate was 20O.7 per
100 600 ~ population; In 1910 th'
rate was 1865 per 100000 Of popul1-
tion states In another way this means
that II the death rate ~ la05 had CON
tiuuod in 1915 thcrc would nave beer
$4,000 more deaths from tuberculosis
bon this country than actually occurred,