| Show I I CON UM1rJOi AM 1SUL11IUN The Recent action of the New York board ol health In demanding that all catotof consumption be reported und In aiming nt Isolation for coniump lives baa nwakouod a protoit from the Medical llecord Bull from leading physicians Tho Iteoord declares that Ibo step gig a mlttakeu untimely Irrational and unwise one that while admitting that pulmonary tuberculosis lu a very lltnlto degree may be contagious that the rublio should be properly educated In retard to the diimonitrstod causes of luftctlon that Ibo pitting nulnano should b abolished sea every reasonable moon should ba used to the end of pro vaotlog the prod 01 Ibo diceme yet the propoied measure Is to radical that the medical profession In the interest of I ublla health and convenience cannot approve 11 It says the argument upon which the action Is I bared Is very much onesided find li calculated to alarm the public unduly to place a largo number of patients uu ler pu Life Jurlsdlcl oo auJ to lulllot Ounces rlly extra burdens Title peolllo stand szoil not the C3U trol nnd Isolation of consumptive by the munlclinllty receives Ibo en iljrttrotat of leading moJIorl rrac titijnorc who hot I that ill U altogether uncalled for to at euro Ibo and desired At thb Burns lima It Is oancajed that come municipal control Is iirceisiry but not of the character proposed Ibe Ideas of Dr Thomas U Craig Planed Assistant nurgcou United U oto navy eeem to meet the medical view on this point In trotting of Ills subject hoiiiikcathiassirtlm that no child wan ever born with consumption consump-tion but that In every cate It la roulracted by Infection or by Inhaling germladen dust To stop this Le wuld forbid consumptive mothers from ctitilnz healthy mrault wjuld to ulato the uso of rublio convtyancoa by consumptive I oraoo would m eke miiUorythu Ulilufectlng room ol street carr of sleeping bertbilit nllua Ir ilia bId t u Moro nnJ ol publlo conviyarcts gincrally and woitll 1 apply l dlslncctlng rules 10 clothing furniture Lie and to aide WAlko and streets with II special view to destroying tubercle ttlXF Their I measures bn believes would I ire tbe desired and with mile h lots Incduviu elite arid exptuou then the lolth I board propoiev and would meet the approval Icsltad of the antaonlsiu of bo general tubllc I |
