The Denver Jewish news., 1924-11-06


cured or arrested
eases to embark in
life and required to
make their own living often suffer so
riOuS rclapscs because Of the hard
work they are forced to do.
II must ba added thai in addition to
the hard work that tuhercular pa.
tients discharged from sanaiaria are
required 10 do the surroundings In
which they live upon to return to their
homes do not continue the arrested con
dition.
Til real danger IN connection with
these discharged tuherculnr patients is
indeed very great lnnScar as those
among whom they naturally come to
live.
II has been admitted by authorities
universally that tuberculosis Is II con
tagiouS disease. II is infec;ive. Very
often the prevalence Of the disease is
first noticed at an advance stage and
TOO often mt II time when the infected
patient has n wife and children. Upon
the return Of patient either as one
even cured. and relapse occurs. the
natural result is an infection of the
children and the wife. not to mention
that In the eNhalafon the germ Is
spread and may infect even those who
are moi in very close contact with the
patient
have alrendy In an article which
has been published called the attention
of the public to the need cf treating
tuberculosis from an entirely different
angle Modern authorities agree that
the cure for tuberculosis must he at
tempted in the infant rather than in
the aMilt II is argued that If the
infant population were periodically OK
amined with n view Of treating them
for t. h.. cure can actually he af-
fccted. OF course, that would require
rather thorough going care. 1t would
entail the isolation of those children
who are infected and their cure by the
only means now available to the medi-
cal profession and that is healthy sur
roundincs. fresh air. unadulterated
food. plenty of sunlight and in some
instances even the treatment cf i'm
mobilizing.
g. The treatment of tuberculosis from
that angle cannot be expected in the
Immediate future. 1t will tntc n great
deal of education of the public and n
tremendous amount of the force of pub
lie opinion exercised on the national
government to undertake the treat
mcnt of tuberculosis in this fashion.
But we are confronted with the prob,
lem Of what to do with the cx-patients
So-called. Personally ii seems to me
that thiA Is misnomer There are no
cN-patients. Tuberculnrs continue tC
he patients. Their disease is arrested
and when a cure is effected the sus
ccptibility of the patient to a new at
tack is greater than that Cf one who
has never been effected. so that tuber
culnrs must receive constant care fol
their own good and particularly to pre-
vent the spread Of the disease.
With great deal Of interest | reat
an article by DR.. Spivak of the j. E
Il S. in which he deals with the ques
tion Of ey-patients or cured or diseas'
arrested patients in which he proposes
II plan to care for those that are curet
or disease arrested, and says: "Th'
plan consists of opening boarding
house for such people who work II
Denver in which room and board vii
be furnished mt n minimum cost of on
dollar per day or seven dollars pc
week. This home will he under Il.
strict supervision of n hoard of ply
s'c'unS who will watch over the clean
illness and sanitation of the home, tn
quality and quantity of the food am
keen surveillance over the health of it
inmates
That is laudable plan and very d,
sirabe to undertake But no accCun
is taken of those who cannot 20 I
work upon the discharge from the ho'
count Is taken of those that are dis
charged from the santariums ncithe