Show DANGER NOT IN Mitt MilK BUT BUTIN IN Physicians Would VI Wage Wade age War on Consumption by Guarding Children I WASHINGTON May 14 That H.-That That there is a tendency to overrate the danger to children from milk from tuberculosis cattle was the decided view expressed today at tile the session of the National National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis The subject was exhaustively treated in a a. joint paper by Drs Dra Henry L. L K Shaw and Arthur T. T Laird of or Albany N. N Y who took the tho position that the attention of the public should not be diverted from the the great e t an and real al danger danger dan dan- n-I n ger of human contagion If they argued tub tuberculosis milk I w wa was s as virulent as as so many declared it I was was difficult to conceive how bow any children children chil chil- I I I dren at all e escaped aped infection The I f association of the tile child with tuberculosis tuberculosis I losis parents or 01 other consumptives 1 I they thE said was a matter of such importance importance I tan tance e in the diagnosis as au well as in inthe inthe in inthe the prevention of tb u disease that every cry member of a tuberculosis family I should be examined as a matter of routine Children espe especially i were ex ext ex- ex t posed sed to infection because of t their cir irre irresistible I impulse to place ev everything in their mouths Danger to Children They pointed out the enormous enormous us danger danger dan dan- ger to children in the home homo of the tuberculosis adult Dust from a room inhabited by bv a consumptive they declared declared de de- de- de dared bad been found virulent for six weeks Towels they said were a fertile fer tile source of infection on That tuberculosis occurred more frequently fre Ire il in artificially fed infants was another view expressed by hy them They maintained however that this was not necessarily an indication that the infection was vas always of the bovine type and contracted from the use of milk from tuberculosis cows They declared de do- dared clart d bottle bottlo fed babies had a greatly lessened l' l resistance to any infection Protect the tho Young A campaign 3 against tuberculosis could only be bo prevented durin during child child- hood Drs Shaw and Lair urged the association as such and the members individually to bend every effort to prevent and arrest the tho spread of tu tuberculosis in children |