Show THE DEADLY MALARIA Dr Searle Harris of Mobile l Ala Aln m made de some startling statements before the American Americal Medical 7 association that met in St. St Louis a few days ago His theme was C Malaria C and his address is re- re in the Medical Journal and it is so interesting interesting inter inter- esting and important that we copy it in part as fc fellows He said sad that malaria though h decreasing in severity sc and frequency continued as ns one of the most prevalent diseases s in in maD many localities in the United States in 10 somo places place it its it mortality rate rato amounted to 25 per cent of the total number of deaths In this thiR country in 1000 IDOO the number of deaths from malaria was It should be bo remembered that malaria a as 35 a complication of a number of diseases and as a n cause causa o of arterio h hardening of the arteries and nephritis nephritis- disease was responsible for ninny many deaths which were aero ascribed to other causes It seemed th therefore that these statistics did not overestimate o the tho number of lives Ji sacrificed to this easily preventable and curable disease It bad had been estimated that malaria cost rost the nation from to annually Th The unnecessary burden bur bur- den of malaria could be relieved simply bv hv radically curing those suffering from the diB dis ses Malaria could be entirety entirely eradicated in one ODe year in nn any community with re regard ard to I the number of ot malaria producing mosquitoes if every ery person having the disease would ko Like quinine Ion long I I enough h to be bo completely cured It was tho the man and not the mosquito that carried malana malaria mala mala- I riB ria na through h the winter thus perpetuating the dica disease e. e The Tho average physician did not rC regard malaria a nS as a serious a dis dir ease case Ho lie relieved tho acute symptoms in a few days anc and when the tho patient die died of malaria he ho felt that the patient bad ne neglected himself It was war in the most niost malarial rc regions that the disease was most lightly lichtl regarded The Tho seriousness of ot the disease and the importance of radical cure euro should be bo more oro ro o. o emphasized Tho The complications winch rc resulted from I II I failure to cure euro wore were responsible for more deaths than the tho acute and pernicious forms The most moet marked effect of malaria was teen seen upon the ther r renal ual or organs ans and vascular structures consequently in in malarial ma rna lanai regions the death nth rate was as high and the tho mortality from irom nephritis and various forms Corms of paralysis as inordinately increased Inere would be little chronic malaria if acute cases were cured but hut there were toda today probably two or three throe million persons in the tho United States who wore were bar bar- boring borin malarial parasites All AJI authorities R agreed that quinine was almost a f specific when treatment was bp begun bogun un early and continued lon long enough h to eradicate the tho parasite from the system The microscope was not always a n criterion as to chronic malaria undoubtedly undoubtedly e edly ly the tho dien disease c did exist without the presence of the parasite para Jua site sito in the peripheral circulation A campaign should bo ho instituted at once against maIn malaria ria Th There re should be a campaign of education 11 benin TUn with them the tho ni m medical profession because physicians as a R class did not appreciate the seriousness of or malaria or the tho ease case with which it could b be 00 eliminated The public should be educated by meant mean of popular n addresses an and literature on the subject should be bo placed in the hands of all l lin living in in malarial die dis Dein Being infectious and tins this disease li ease should be classed among the tho reportable diseases and und state and count county boar boards s of health should lead in the light fight Mono Money Mone spent pent In lu eradicating malaria would yield greater returns than that expended in an any other form of philanthropy |