The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-03

Each private practitioners office may
be looked upon as tuberculosis clinic
Another extremely important group
in your control program is your group
Of health officers.
"In Fargo, one of the very best
demonstrations of all time has been
conducted. The work subsequent to
that demonstration has been of a SUI
perior nature.
such communicable diseases as
diphtheria have almost become of his
toric interest. Other city health Of
ficers are doing excellent work. All
of this, of course, under the direction
of your very unusual state health de-
partment in Bismarck.
"One Of the outstanding features OF
the public health work in North Da.
kota is the good cooperation between
the health officers and the practicing
physicians. Although this does not
exist in some parts of the country it
is absolutely essential in the contro.
of communicable diseases"
DR.. Myers praised the North Dakota
state livestock sanitary board. point
ing out that the state was the seventh
in the nation to become accredited.
This means that the incidence of
tuberculosis among cattle has been re-
duced from whatever it was in the be-
ginning to five -tenths of one per cent
or less. This is the greatest demon
stration of tuberculosis control work.
either experimental or clinical, that
your state has ever experienced" he
said.
Must Consider Disease
DR.. Stewart described his quarter of
century of effort toward establishment
of a tuberculosis sanatorium in Mani
toba.
No talk of health, he said, is COM
plete without serious consideration
OF disease.
Just how far science has advanced
is indicated by the fact that many
diseases are banished and some
diseases of the old world are about
as dead as the dodo."
Death rates have been cut in two"
he said, land we can cut them in two
once more if we can only get the peo-
pie interested"
Explaining why we "say so much
and do so much about tuberculosis"
he said when one disease kills more
than 400 persons year in a small
province like Manitoba-with popu-
lation no greater than a second-rate
city-or 300 year out of the popu-
lation of North Dakota, doesn't it de-
serve to be talked about?"
Tuberculosis infection-not disease
but infection-is almost universal"
DR.. Stewart said, explaining that
everybody has tuberculosis infection
at some time during life.
A plea for a more personal contact
between the physicians and the state
public health laboratories was made
by Ecklund.
Two common types of errors made
by physicians in their association with
the laboratory are clerical errors and
those due to improper collection and
preservation of materials submitted
for examination, he said. He sug-
gested checks against these.
Laboratory Errors Serious
Laboratory errors are more common
and much more serious, he said
These are caused by IAN inherent BIZ
illogical limitation of accuracy" and
"the personnel of the laboratory"
He then gave description Of how
disease tests are made and explained
limitations for accuracy and reasons
for error.
The public health bacteriologist
must make accuracy the chief aim Of
his life work, Ecklund said. He must
be mot just a 80 man but fourth
decimal point man, and just second
airy to this, he must realize that he /:
not simply dealing with inanimatt
specimens, but that through them hi
is touching the hopes and fears Of hui
mainly itself"
DR.. Sedlacek described the program