Show TRAVELERS EXPOSED T Til DANGER Dr Rucker Discusses Transmission Trans Trans- mission of Disease on Trains and Steamboats San Francisco June 25 The 2 Tho epi 11 of oC typhoid fever fever has hRs paes-fd paes from the realm of speculation Into that ot of r fact s said sald ld A Assistant stant fact Surgeon General Gen Gen- oral eral W. W C. C C Rucker of ot the thc United States public health service In an address borero botro bo- bo tro fore rero the American Academy of or Medicine here hero teds today today- Typhoid fever fe Is not H. H place disease sad aRid JJr Dr Dr Rucker unless H the term be used to designate that place in which there thore is 1 careless disposition of oC human filth Typhoid is Js not confined con- con fined to any Rny section or any season and amid whoever travels travel to nn any great extent multiplies hi hla hie contact with with the source of Infection Dr Rucker flucker spoke on The Thc Transmission sion slon of oC Typhoid Fever Fer on Trl TrI Train anH i Steamboats th time the addi address ss being of t p par par- nl interest because of the r recent ent consideration of ot th the tho Interstate tine regulations b by the conference held In Washington between the tho surgeon general of oC the States publia health service and the state and terri tern tonal health authorities If I there were some way In which which chronic typhoid carriers could bo be cured he lie said Id n a 1 great forward step tep would have been taken take toward tho the eradication of ot the disease but We wo am are amnot not yet In possession of knowledge aHto aa as asto to the means of ot accomplishing this The Tho great grat and lasting hasting result which Is Isto Isto to be sought IH is the inculcation ot of the teachings of oC p rs nal hygiene into th tho public mind It I Is true that a n certain amount of good can cnn be accomplished b by tho the instruction of ot the adult layman but the he public health propaganda which Is 18 now no being actively pushed by federal feder feder- al al state and municipal governmental cannot hope to achieve full rul results un until until un- un til ti the present generation of or little chiW dren have become men and women women The Transportation cf of tives nas sas as considered in irs ina ina irsa a a paper b by Dr Henr Henry B B. B Hemenway of Evanston Ill II read rond before the tho American Academy cadem of ot Medicine toda today Dr Hemenway Hemenway Hem Hem- enway said that although consumptives were prone to travel tra In greater e numbers numbers num num- bers bors than lien any other othel one class of or persons persons per per- sons son afflicted with wih disease l huml human human- as well as n law would protect protect pro pro- ted them in their desire to travel unless un un- less leR It bo be shown that their Journey particularly par par- endangered their fellow tray trav elers elert The conclusion to which ho hn came alter reviewing statistics and andIn In laws lans ws bearing on tho the case woo was that tat the thA hangers dangers involved were ivero comparatively slight alight and that an any attempt at He sere segre segregation re- re gation Jaton o of consumptives during transportation transportation trans trans- was as Impracticable Legislation and medicine was wal named as the general topic tOlla for tor next years year's discussion continuing the policy poll poli pol C cy of the academy to specialize in tho the sociological aspects of medicine Dr A. A G. G Hare Hara of Fresno Fresco Cal was wai elected president-elect president to take office at the lie next con enton convention Other officers r fleeted elected were Vice presidents president Dr K It W. W Corwin Pueblo Cole Colo Colo and Dr Ann Arbor Mich secretary Helen lichen Putnam Providence Pro R. R I l. l treasurer Dr Charles Easton Easlon Pa and assistant secretary Dr W tV L. L I. I Estes Easton Pa Detroit was selected as the place for forthe 01 or orthe the 1916 convention U. |