The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-05
TWICE AS MANY MEN AS WOMEN DIE BY PLAGUE Tuberculosis Commission Shows This True in Cities
 of State. ABOUT EQUAL
 IN THE COUNTRY More Children Die From White Plague ill Cities
 Than Country.

Hartford March 4-TwiCe as many men as women die of tuberculosis in the cities of Connecticut, while irr the country about the same number of both sexes perish from the disease. In the cities tuberculosis kills fewer children than 1t sweeps away In the country. Of the sexes more girls than>boys are killed by the disease.
 These statements form part of the biennial report of the Connecticut Tuberculosis Commission which was today filed with Governor Holcomb. They are proven by records in the office of the State Board of Health and they coincide with statistics which have been recently publish ed of the rava ges. of the disease in Eng land and Wales The Connecticut fig ures for 1917 for instance, show that, per 100000 population. there were A males and 4 females who died of the disease in towns of more than 5000 population. while per towns of less than 5000 population. the death rate was closer. being 47 for males to 52 for females.
 Similarly. the number of female children in the towns of more than 900 population was 5, while for male children the number of victims was 3. In towns of less than 5000, the proportion between the male and fe- male children was exactly. standing at 3.
 Commenting on the fact the report says
 The deductions from these findings will be various and conflicting but all
 ,r fg kind show how important it is that the fight agatnst tuberculosis should be carried into the factories, stores and offices where the city men work They demonstrate also how valuable a fight ing force Connecticut has in the var ious anti-tuberculosis societies of em- ploves in her factories and stores and offices
 Tn relation to the progressive cam paisn the report says:
 Connecticut has kept her patients supplied with as good food and as many comforts as in times of peace. She has increased the capacity of her sanatOria, nearly one-third. She has secured a site for her long desired ranatorium for children suffering with bCne and glandular tuberculosis. She has supplied tuberculosis experts
  financial encoura cement to the wis iting tuberculQsis nurses and dispen- Saries of the state. She has supplied factories and schools and societies and newspapers with anti-tuberCu- lOSts literature and theatres with moving picture films on the disease.
 The commission regards the estaio- ljshment of a seaside sanatorium as perhaps the banner accomplishment of the year. A description of the property at White Beach Hotel, Cres- cent Beach, Lyme, is given and the plan for development of the property outlined. The report asserts that the long waiting lists of patients has dis appeared and additional accommoda- tions at the Shelton and Norwich sanatoria have been furnished.
 The attention of the General As senibly has been called to the need of d ward or separate building for the care of emergency and dying cases of tuberculosis. The report, continuing, says:
 Tn this new, after-the-war era the public will no longer tolerate the view apparently entertained by some directors of general hospitals that the functioning of these institutions car be restricted 10 such medical activi- ties as interest the principal surgeon: and physicians. The instant use of SC many hospitals during the recent in. fiuenza epidemic, and the surrender ing of ward after ward to the care ot patients sick with this terrible anC contagious disease, afforded striking proof of the services that general hos pitals can and must give to their com munities a visiting nurse discovers munitiea a visitnig nurse discovers Yv,horr,Y1pcf5 fo fry sick to be removed to a distant sana torium these same hospitals will em phatically refuse to admit the patti ent. The attitude of the general hos pitals is indefensible. It is due to tn, discarded panicky notion that tn consumptive is of necessity and al ways a source of danger to his neigh bors There is nothing dangerou about a Consumptive but his sputum and that danger is so easily controlled in a hospital or infirmary that thes wards are now about the safest plac in the world for the man or woman who is afraid of catching the disease
 The commission makes an appea to the general hospitals to take emer gency cases, and holds that the ex pense should be borne by the stat in part and the city and town i part
 The report has a chapter on tn omission of the sale of Red Cros seals last Christmas and explains tn conditions which brought this abou It calls for more nurses and dispens aries, and discusses theproblem C caring for the great number of pa tients who have not been accommc dated in the institutions. There ar about 5000 cases in the state an the state itself is caring for onl about 300. It says the people ar now only just beginning to grasp tn idea that the best place to treat an care for patients is in the local ger eral hospitals and not in the home of families.