The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-21
Field Agent Of State Anti
tuberculosis League
Here
DR.. Mayer Tells of Work Being
Done by Great Philan-
thrOpic Organ
natiOn

DR.. Fred J. Mayer state agent of
the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis
| League. spent yesterday afternoon in
| Morgan City, having come over from
| Franklin where he lectured to the
children OF the High School on the
preventible disease that inhibit the
advancement OF the state. among
which are the mosquito borne disease,
typhoid fever, and the worst of all,
tuberculosis The latter is nom
hereditary. communicable disease,
says the doctor, contracted from the
milk of tuberculous cows, not only
where there is tubercular lesion of
the tactical duct, bat indirectly from
the discharge of the infected COW get
ting into the milk, from dust, tail
switching and the like.
contend" said the doctor, that
no milk should be consumed raw
from cows that have not been tnber-
cular tested. Where it is impossible
to have this test made, municipal pas
teurizing plants should be established.
Farmers should have their herds ties.
ted as we'll as dairymen, and in. cases
where the disease is too for gone ID
the animal to give any hope, of cure,
the animal should at once be slaugh-
tered. If not too far gone. it should
be isolated from the rest of the herd
until definite negative or positive in
dications are evident. Through this
process of elimination, the herd can
be brought to a maximum of strength
and free from disease. If this system
was - universal in Louisiana as 10
the tick eradication being carried on,
Louisiana would soon rank the great
est dairying state in the world, be-
cause for II months in the year, the
cattle can run in the open. feeding
on the magnificent grasses of this
section.
"The human sputum is the chief We
hicle of transmission" declared the
doctor, "and everyone who has
reached the age of Is living in towns
has probably contracted tubercles, the
seat of the disease, and when the
mate power of resistance inherent in
every human organism has been low
cred by Flu or by injury, the stricken
person can easily develop the disease
which, on account of conditions in the
army, will be found in greater pro-
portion among the soldiers, and es-
pecially so among the colored SOL
diers and the negroes from whom we
get most of our domestic help. So
every southern home stands in the
shadows of the danger. Fifty
thousand of our boys died in Eu-
rope since we entered to the war;
four times that number die in the
United States every year of tubercu-
losis, IS per cent between the ages
of l6and IS the years of their great
est economic value to the state, at .
cost of one and one-half billions per
annum, hence it is a question Of busi-
ness economy to restrict the ravages
of the disease. The League has
launched campaign Of public educa-
tion along this line and with this
purpose in view"
The doctor spoke of the great work
of Camp Hygea, near Covington,
which owes its success mainly to the
work of such noble women as Jean
Gordon, Mrs. DRY, Mrs. Framherst
and others. He also spoke of the
Pines that had its inception in the
sympathetic heart of Mrs. Benson
and her co-workers at Shreveport.
The head of the Anti-Tuberculosis
League of Louisiana is MIR. Lucien
f. Lyons, one of the biggest business
men of the south whose home is in
New Orleans. Dr. G.. Farrar Patton
who retires shortly as secretary, has
given his services to the league gra-
tis since its organization.
DR.. Mayer stated that the sale of
the Red Cross Christmas seals would
be renewed this coming Xmas, and
that the funds thus derived would be
expended in the educational campaign