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Show -l.'ir. uij.-; of b;.a.;.. !s if apjdto. fatigue on i;-.hc ..:Oi-,icu aim t-'mici atiow. The cough a::d expcc-oration w.ts .-light for pontlis. TTo luu row b.---n in this cuy foe about a y.aL. The l-aihilogical process cvniiinic am' Li? symrouij uj r.Li hnmeve. though from present im'itatic-r-s l.e U liable to live a lo.g time. IIS e:h::eai M-Uc;. and phy-ieal examiuatii.t: itveak-a conUi-tio-i typical of iibioin cbthk''.,-, ssil in marked eoniiait iu ihc fc:lj,v v.1.0 af.or thico i;oui'..i' s-pc-w ; eie-l w hi: in a year. 'Thus we have a'ii ftaloi, a will be shown later, depending upon tiie general constitution ami natural resisting re-sisting power of the men. Also largely large-ly 0'.! the amount of fj eign matter inhale'.!. in-hale'.!. The mucous and the alveolar cells are the normal respiratory scfu voters of the lungs and are capable ca-pable of protecting- the organ in a measure, but when the dust is excessive excess-ive the scavengers are over-worked and broken down, so to speak, leaving' the lungs exposed to just what occurs in these cases. "OLVDLY I!i-;L)J.1E ! M. :)( tor i:kit"s j'm-ki; i!-ai in:r..i:r run hooky mountai n M !"!(' AI. .S.srH IATION j De ,eret News Dr. Detain! of Philadelohia ivV,d a thoroughly appreciated paper on "The "se of the TT.i"in:ir..k;'it '' This vras followed by Dr. Beds' paper on ih.; De I.a Mar dust, which is given below, "From the title of this rut per as announced an-nounced it migh be inferred that the society would get, aa essay on fibroid phthisis, but I will not bore you with anything- of the kind. I assume that all intelligent physicians are familiar with its causes and general pathology. Neither Nei-ther is there anything new ov strange in the disease known to the people of Nevada and southern Utah as the De La Mar. "V.'hat I desire is t,o report the experience ex-perience of some of my friends and my personal observation, and call your attention at-tention to the terrible mortality of the lung trouble induced by the dust of the De La Mar mill. Whether we call the cases fibroid phthisis, chronic interstitial intersti-tial pneumonia, stonecutters' phthisis. "Rvery man who work.-; in the mill from uro to tlu'eo weeks is subject to attacks of acute bronchitis, which i.s due cot only to the irritating effects of the dust, but to their apparent in-ubUhy in-ubUhy to resist sliyht exposure. The mucous membranes of ihe nose, throat and conjunctiva are all subject to acute inflammations. The bronchitis is use. illy followed by a soreness along-the along-the course of the trachea and bronchial bron-chial tubes, usually more marked on the right. After coughing has continued contin-ued for a time there' will be soreness in the region of the stomach and loss of appetite. There is loss of weight and shortness of breath, the respirations respira-tions running as high as 33 and 42 per minute upon the slightest exertion. As the weeks pass the loss of weight eoiitiuues, the respiration does not improve, the patient suffers general malaise and soon finds it 'impossible 'im-possible to get about, and by the time he is confined to his room has lost from twevny to sixty pounds in weight, fea-Im- - : are drawn and eyes sunken. ''f'ulse vang'es from -0 to 120, weak ;:.:. iatei-miit cut. j "aucnls are rest-lc-., anxious ar.l apprehensive of results, they do eoL sleep well and are subject to hideous dreams. As the disease dis-ease becomes more marked and in its late stages the temperature may rise to 102 or 101, though, a high temperature is not always present. There is always al-ways a characteristic odor of the breath at all times, prebabely due to the tellurium that the dust, contains. There is no arsenic as has been stated." Dr. Betfs here presented a table containing con-taining a record of fourteen eases, of whom eleven died in St. George. The. figures showed that the average age of the men was 29 years. Their average aver-age weight was 100 pounds, and they worked an average of thirteen months. They died on an average of ten months after leaving the mill. Orin Woodbury Wood-bury stood it the longest. He worked thirty-three months and lived twenty-four twenty-four months afterwards. It was just ten months from the time John Frost entered the mill until his death. lie worked three months and died seven i months after giving tip. Dr. Jones began the discussion. TTo remarked that the disease does not differ particularly from that contracted by thoe employed in the great cutlery works of Shcllield, Kngland. employers of grindstone quarries and grain shove-lei-s. Tin; men who shovel barley arc specially liable to it. Hesaid: "Solong as life is less valuable than gold, just so long will these lives be sacrificed at the De La Mar mill. There are methods of doing away with this dust, but they cost money. The best remedy, in my judg'-men!. is an invocation of the ! -trong arm of the law." Pr.-Ciii't. of St. Geori-o. said: ''All the men who left St. (ieorge to work in that mill have come html; with this : rouble. At present there are thnv who are ste! ;;;ivo. but tliey mu-t fo'pe.v the ,.)t;iej s w iThin three mouths. Tim remedy reme-dy is Uh; One j-;-! l;o-..si I'd l;yl)r. .' one i i;;... strung wmoi ' !r sr. . T!i-mill T!i-mill van be run by ;!! i:;r prooe-s and j De. .f !.s: -.r ay..', yeA miners' consumption, anthracosis, sidcrosis or ehalicosis depends upon the character and amount of foreign matter, mat-ter, or classify them tinder the generic name of pneumonokoniosis makes but little difference. All convey to our minds a patholigical process, the exact nature of which depends largely upon the stage in which the case is found by the pathologist and its clinical history. Authors agree, however, in the dust causation, and in the cases under consideration con-sideration the foreign matter is excessive. exces-sive. "At, the De La Liar mill the ores from which the gold-bearing rjuartite are crushed, dried and ground to a fine .powder in what i.s known as the Grirliu mill, conveyed to bins, and thence through chutes to cars, which, are wheeled to the tanks. In and about the. mill the air is filled with an impalpable dust, and in portions of the mill so dense- that one cannot be recognized a lew feet away, and an electric light is in evidence by a spark, The. mill has been in operation since VSiii. employing about fifty men, the capacity being increased in-creased from time to time until now about seventy live men are employed. It is stated that all the men who worked in the mill from seven to nine months previous to January, 1808, are dead, A careful review of the cases to March 1, gives 16f deaths. Since then to my personal per-sonal knowledge three have died in St. George. A later statement by a gentleman gen-tleman who has the disease himself, and the editor of a Nevada paper, puts it at 200. "Dr. Mayo, who was the company's physiean from January, 1895, to a few-months few-months ago, and to whom I am indebted indebt-ed for much valuable information, states that only thirty-four deaths have come to his notice. This, I am sure, is too low, and while 200 may be high, I believe be-lieve 100 near correct, as almost every town in Nevada and southern Utah has its victim, for it is a fact that neither the company nor the men recognized their danger until the deaths began to occur. My attention was directed to these facts while at St. George, as cpaite a number of the younger men were employed in the De La Mai mill, eleven of whom have died within the past year. A number of others are suffering suf-fering from the disease. After interviewing inter-viewing the attending physicians and the unfortunate families. I have been able to gather much of interest concerning con-cerning the case. "I 11 till upon further interviewing my professional friends, that a number have been treated here and died iu the hospitals of this city. A great number of the men were from adjoining Stales and the far Last. Many would return to their distant homes as soon as they were broken in health , a ml it is d i IP cult to keep track of them, though many have died and other niu.-t. as the disease dis-ease involves lesions which do not admit: ad-mit: of recovery, and sooner or later ptoves fatal. Dr. Ihvieg received a letter let-ter from a former patient of his from Ohio a short time aeo. stating his present pres-ent unfavorable condition. I have examined ex-amined a number of ca-es in vh rh! might eoine uuu-r the e'lronto form, as they are aiee to get around and ik- u-siomAy u-siomAy do some ::e;:t work. :!:oe eh they were oi'evd ti Ica'.e !!. I mouths torer.ian f c ..m e'e-r-. ::.. ,r |