| Show WAIt tiL OV OX CO The rue he health commissioner of ot o Penn lono Pennsylvania sylvania Dr nr proposes to light fight tI ht in III Iho Ilie State lIMe In a it very ery practical Wily way VII A million has hom been appropriated for lor the purpose e and the nuttier will be bo spent to the best heM possible advantage The Tho doctor will establish h In each lIch of oC the counties of the tue t State a dispensary sari sary who cannot home horne may ma Jet get tree flee lee advice a leo about food lood rest rott medication when needed and tho treatment If It every parent tren whether consumptive or not could bo b Induced to visit vii It such n a die dis dispensary pent and to apply Its Ite teachings few lew children It l Is thought wl lIld ever eer grow grot up tip to tl bo be consumptive Tor 01 or those who have the disease Doctor pro pie poses poles Oles to sanitariums In itt tho Iho forests The Thc pa ta patients la tient as they partially recover recotr can bo be In forestry tO el nn en Ideal oc occupation occupatIon for tor consumptive conales convalescents cents The colonies are to consist cOMIt of ot otchel o cheap chel I frame holding hut a few fet each eRch and situ ut the tha worst ruses dIscs are arc to ta bo be kept separate sepa rato from the lite others These arrangements appear to be practical Jt t Is Ia h certain that tives should be talen care of ot In the th Interest of the re rElI rest ot of the tho human fam tam family ily II At t present they me ore advised to go gotti o oto tu to some pome other oth r climate and If It they have means m ans they will follow folio lollo the advice Hut But there Is no imo provision made for their Isolation I or special care careAn careA An A a I consequence they tile mingle freely treely with their fellowmen and aud tho the con COli contagion spreads 8 it t Ii Is 1 thought that there thoro arc are at lit least 0 tives in this country now That is II n II tenth part pait of ot the population And many litany ot of these o could be he curel cure by b proper treatment It is JI time for the tho various states to commence intelligent cooperation in the tho war upon the White Death neath In tills this connection It can bo be men nen mentioned mentioned that an emphatic warning of ot the perils of oC raw ra milk on account of the tho dangar of th presence of or the ot of con was III rue a afew 1 few tew dayn ago by tho the American Antl league nt Rt its annual congress licit held under the th presidency of 01 Dr george G orlO Brown Drown of Atlanta On Dr DI O 0 Donahue of ot Syra eyra Syracuse yra cuse e N Y read n It paper papel In which ha he h summarized the tho evidence of ot tho trans of 01 tuberculosis from the tho cow to III tho ti human through mille milk hue evidence he lie said must con convince Ymca vince tho the most skeptical that milk ml mlIs Is a n common of oC Infection Dr U E C Schroeder der the federal ox cx pert erl wrote that milk Infected with th tubercle tU bacilli Is a n danger second to I none and pointed out omit It H may ma be Interesting and Live tIO that hart joined hands with von on in the tho belief belter that all cli tuberculosis nt at whatever ago It ft makes Its ibm 11 appearance Is due to bacilli introduced Into tho the body through the Intestines during the kin period of ot life Dr DI Ernst J S former com corn of health he of t Now ow York City Cily said ald that tho the prevalence ot of tuberculosis lode losis In tho the dairy herds wax was 11 so great reat that pasteurisation pasteurization should hould bo Insisted upon ulon In all cames c in which them thero was wa wano no tie proof of or the tho absence of oC tho the disease In tha tho herds hords There seemed to b practical unanimity unanimity mity on the tho Importance of ot providing pure pum milk mille Dr r Nathan athan Straus said aId In III part partIn In tho the past five 01 years ears In this city Now No York thoro thero were new now CaM of tuberculosis of 01 tho the lungs lunge and of ot all nil kinds caused c which was over ever 13 per nor cent of the total deaths death from all causes and 28 per cent coat of ot these thes victims were wens under years of ago age It IH III unthinkable that thIt tItle this slaughter should so go 0 on unchecked when science haH haA laid Its linger finger on tho the common Cohen call ot oC Infection pointIng to tho the tubercle bacilli In tho th mIlk bottle bottlo But tho the ravages e ot of this will go on until every mother mothel mows knows that it Is Isa Isa a D crime to give her child raw milk mUk mUkand and until time health authorities rec rue recognize that their first duty la t to pro ent tho Iho people popie p ople practically all of or whom u ue I e raw mill milk trying t hl to 10 sub nub subsist all t upon a 1 diet ot of consumption germs gonna William Wirt lills ot of J ew w York Tork said sull that t Instead of or talking about giving morphine to consumptives to release them thorn from rota their th r sufferings tho the authorities ought to stop the tha planting of ot the germs of ot the tho die dla ease In Infants Infant through Infected milk Ho lie said hi that true truo humanity dictated prevention not euthanasia |
