Show TO I Tf DISEASE Gf Government Pathologists and lUt B c Arc Deeply Inter Interested ested in tile the Movement INFECTION BY INHALATION Wilt 1 III be Composed nf or si Sd Scientists enlists of or National Reputation Will I Give Question Profound nd Study stud Special Ic al Correspondence Washington U D I c July 23 Govern Government Goer ment pathologists and Ind bacteriologists imro 10 following with great Brent Interest the tha general movement under tue tho auspices of ot the tile local boards at of health of at the larg lorg larger er eI cities cies securing better venti senti ventilation lation of ot street cars churches churche places of ot PublIc amusement etc ate In cornice lon with lh tho the sanitation of ot the ilio canto imme hopu hOO that much light can be thrown possibility I of ot Infection through tim ro ug Ii inhaling ill g the lie t ia ti on of ot persons Tile Tho ho report list has hn been received here amid noted with much satisfaction that limit In ill furtherance of ot this thin project tho thu New Nol York hoard board of al ni aldermen dermen has mis made mudo a special appropriation tion ton of or for tor tho the New Nel York board of health to be bo devoted to 10 the study of pneumonia and ond acute respiratory die eases und and tho the possibility of at Infection through inhalation Dr Brings of ot the New York health department says It I has hiis his been established that acute respiratory tory discuses are arc Infectious and wo we be boo lieve leve they thley the arc lre produced toy by b germs gerals The they thoy should be preventable In Ill I II it ii I large percentage of cases where wo We 10 know knol that tho the germ Is Ja and how It I enters the tho body they the ole arc In ill a n measure preventable Generally speaking the germs cerms do not nol multiply outside of ot the tha body bod tho the Inference must bo be that bitt the tho disease Is contracted from froal other individual who has hal the tho germs gerls Mortal ity In lui this hits hims I group his Increased for tor the lust last 30 years cor corI It I Is la understood that the Iho commission which will wi have charge of or this Ihla Import Important ant Investigation In New Nel York wl 1111 be composed of at pathologists and bacteriologists of national reputation and among the names flames suggested as ns possible members of ot It tire are those of at Dr O 0 of ot New York Dr Ir William Wilam II 11 Welch and Ind Dr William Osier Osler of at Johns university of Dr Theobald Smith of ot Harvard university sity Ily onel omIt Dr T Mitchell Pruden head of or the tho pathological department of at tho tim College of ot Physicians and nr Surgeons of at Columbia university In this connection Dr Walter Waiter Wy Wynina nina mun surgeon general of ot the Iho United States Sin tell marine a hospital service said BIle We Wo have lately been compelled to modify some somo of ot our notions of the causes of or contagious and nd Infectious dl eoll s After fter tile the brilliant discover lee leb of Pasteur and Ini Koch It I was thought that hint the presence of ot tile tho pathogenic microbe organism won was like the bite of nf a n venomous snake surely poisonous But now 1101 wo We 10 know that tho t there are arc other con comi condition diJon dilon besides the presence of tile the microbe necessity to produce disease dl people go about with wih virulent of ot pneumonia In their re respiratory tract hut but do not have pneumonia monia Wily Why their heir cells coils are Br vigorous enough to prevent tile dl I Invading the lungs but put such a I person 1 on under bad sanitary con conditions or depress hn h vitality and the tho II are lr not hot they th In Invade vade the tho lunea and pneumonia anti nn death follow The Tp same inLine RIle to n a 1 limited degree occurs with tie tO bacillus In n times Imel of ot cholera epidemics men go with wih living virulent cholera eh rl In their Intestinal canal jet Cl e they mire aro Iro not lot sick Why Because the cop con condition 01 lion for tor the production of the Iho cholera toxins are ur not favorable there Is tin un 10 abnormal tlora hera In their Intestinal Hut Hilt lot hat such a ii 1 person ron eat cat poor Ioor antI and tainted food tool or derange his digestion through or evil military surroundings mind and tho tim disease dl Ip results Many people live 11 a I long and life le with tubercle bacilli encysted In Inthe Inthe the time apex of one lung As B long hong ns OK they have plenty of fresh tresh air IIII and mint good sanitary Military surroundings thoy they remain well troll wol runt Nut give cle such n a 1 person peon poor food or I bal bad sanitary surroundings null sea eec what happens The he battle go going IO ing lug on between bot the bacilli and the colic cells cels In a n victory for tor the tho bacilli The cells cell die Ile and the tho victorious bacilli havoc hn VOl through the tho lungs Junes We E therefore have havo a it I scientific proof Pe t of tho the of ot the tho old time notions notion not on of or tho the old fashioned doctors who the tho some of fresh aIr all anti and one sunshine of ot good god food amid exercise of ot cleanliness anel dry dwellings II 10 I ns and wo we find dull that the tho conditions of health which result reAul from such Mich good gool conditions are nrc after nil all oi among the very ery r best beat bell preventives against Infection |