Show THEORY OF ISOLATION TIO TO SHUT UP CONSUMPTIVES Consternation Con Con- by the Suggestion to Place Them In Special lioi- lioi n ns RI n R Means Mean of ot Pre Pre- Tenting tho Spread of v the Dilalo The recent action aton of the Michigan Eta Board Boud of Health la to pla placing consumption o othe on the Hit Ilic lt of contagious contagion diseases and Ind safeguards lifeguards to prevent Its Il spread Is 1 causing widespread newspaper discussion as I to t the propriety of similar action In 11 other states Not only has ha tho Michigan chan Board Doard of Health lealh taken this radical step but the tho County Mcd- Mcd Id- Id J I feat leal Society of Philadelphia has bas petitioned the Board Doard of Health there to t Isolate bolat con con- The Pan Fan Congress ah also passed paled a resolution at lt the recent Washington c. c convention calling on the national govern govern- meat ment to t take steps In the tho same came lame going eo so far tr as al to ask Ik President Cleveland t to give Ive his hit personal attention to the tho matter The result resal has ha been that national state tat an and civic authorities have boon been bern appealed to t thereby thereby thereby there there- by causing consternation to thousands of con eon in every enTY state in the Union who I V arc are in terror teror lest lel they should be torn from V V their homes home and friend and ald turned over t to toV V special ho hospitals which in reality will b be VI The turmoil which the proposition has ba created ore cre cre V sited is 1 steadily increasing and a great wave of opposition is 1 appearing V V V Friends of consumptives consumptive declare that If isolation isolation iso iso- ho lation of the patients patent is h attempted in specia hospitals numerous outrages e. e will wi result ant and that not only will wi unfeeling persons who wan wanto want to t get et rid of sick lick relatives dump damp them upon the tho hospitals but bat machinations will arise arle of a 0 V most moat evil ei character maI tradesmen fo for instance by a 1 cough may mil suddenly find themselves moved out Olt of their compel V V tr tors' tors way by bl a 0 judicial process which wl will wi tend send them to t the special consumptive hospital to end their V t O days day Some declare that while the appearance o of S smallpox or cholera choler in il the tlc land is the tho signal for immediate widespread alarm and the inauguration inV int in In- t V of severe levere repressive consumption which Is always present and 1 is 1 chronically epidemic 1 Is allowed to take a an unchecked course the people not realizing V that it i II is far more deadly than any other dU die die- V V V V S ewe eC and is 1 slowly but surely increasing It its Hs V silent ravages It I Is claimed that as u half hal o othe of the people who have consumption do not re realize re- re re alias alize alzo the fact they spread pread a false hc confidence V among their friends friend who vrho ho c allow themselves to come in contact with the tho victims vic yb- vie V time tims and a are t in la turn fatally infected The Tho New York York ork Herald Derald commenting on th the tha V V subject quotes the tho action acton of the de 1 Ia 10 recently held in Paris Pari In which the te following resolution was wa adopted V In view of the fact that life le in common o of S. S V consumptives with the other patients patent in 11 the hospitals Is disadvantageous both to t themselves them selves elves and others and that the risks that they V V V run rn and to which they expose others are aro no not by any Iny serious the mem memo V here berg ber of the Congress ara are of the she opinion that tha V V V ILl all al consumptive patients should be t together ether in iii special hospitals In groups group n according noV ac no- V V cording cring to t the period of their d e and od that these groups grups should be as ns small email as os V bio bin at the gt stage of tho complaint V V In consideration of the fact that in the thep p present nt condition o of ho science a continuous C. C U 1 i pure puro air Is 1 one of the most powerful elements clement in 11 tha the treatment of tuberculosis it is also aso advisable that these V hospitals should be built buit in the country or a atho at atthe lt tho the seashore Finally as a I transitory measure to last a as o V short Ibort a time as a possible consumptives should hould for the time being be bo united In special wardin ward warde wards V in the hospitals apart from those of the other paten patients and the walls wals and furniture of these V wards should be bo disinfected at stated intervals inter Inter- V yale vals J V V Another scheme for the tho isolation of consumptives con coo which has hI just been announced by bythe bytho the tho Denver Cob Colo Clo JV News CS w Is J to the effect V W TV N. N Dyers Dyer a syndicate syndicat of Boston Bos Bos- V ton tn capitalists has applied at It the office of the V Colorado Land Commissioner for sections o oland of land on which to colonize consumptives from V New England The Tho idea is to erect suitable buildings and put pat the patients patent at gentle gente work attending to fruit and poultry bee culture and gardening insisting all al of the upon lal suitable ble physical exercise The idea Mea is la that tha patients patents in the first stages of consumption might be benefited in the mild dry air o of Colorado f and that their light ll labors bO can b be beV V turned to t tho the pecuniary advantage of the f syndicate The Cincinnati Cincinnat Post Pott over a year ago 10 Interested Inter luter- V V ested Itself In the tho question of the tho cause o of consumption and tho possibility of its cure V Since that time many newspapers have ha devoted de dc- dc- dc f voted Toted attention to t the subject I Recent statistics carefully gathered have I V shown that seventh one-seventh of all aU the deaths in the tho United States from disease are caused by consumption and this startling fact prominently V presented has served sred to increase the tha agitation which has been aroused V J In order to t get at the opinions of the leadIng lead- lead lug Ing physicians of Cincinnati Cincinnat on the latest V S VV V aspect of the case 1 I. 1 e. e that relating to t the theS proposed isolation of consumptives Interviews interviews Inter inter- I views were secured with Drs Dr V Judkins Jud- Jud kin kins Amick Brunning and Ind others V VV V Dr William Judkins said I thoroughly believe beleve In the scheme for the tho Isolation of conS consumptive con eon S 0 patients patents The Tho b best plan Is to take tho the patient patent out oat of his home and pat lint fut him blU In a aS a S house bouie specially built for consumptives The Tho The V idea may seem eem a harsh hanh one but it is certainly V In the interest of friends of the sufferer The Ther r V great eat trouble with wih the project would be to toV V get et patients patent in the tho first tnt ta stages es of the disease V V to t go to such a retreat Most Moat of them dont don't believe beleT that they have consumption and you cannot convince them to tho the contrary V Dr said I do not approve of ol the tho Isolation project simply because I do not think it would do any practical good Isolation Isola Isola- tion ton the tho taWn taking away way of a con consumptive from his home and aud friends would bo be be rather inV in in- V S human Is of the every case consumption result of oft contact with some fome other case cae or is the disease sometimes sporadic like cholera No There Is no such euch thing as a sporadic t V consumption It I is not even an inherited disease Every case cale owes its Us origin to so com corn Many cases case of ot consumption are arc areV V contracted at lt bedsides One patient patent can cnn give ft I to twenty well wel person persons Strong trong men with wih no predisposition that way get It Why one I l. l V of the worst wort places to contract consumption is 1 in In a 1 corridor A consumptive V coming id iii spits spit on tho the floor lie He spreads tho the thor r I V germs of his disease to be bo inhaled by bl others V who enter There Thero should be be cuspidors s in r t In market houses and in all aU other k public pablo places Spitting by bl consumptives upon L sidewalks Is I not so eo dangerous as the open air V M disseminates the te germs more widely than In a V V building Do you think that consumption Is Increasing ing lug or decreasing V Probably decreasing on account of better methods used In treating It It The Tho newspapers V can do great good goo b by calling attention to the tho great grent dangers of consumption and noting noUng the tho necessity for greater care hi in guarding against the the disease People arc lre too careless No doubt Isolation w would be of to patients patent and do good but bat it could not be enforced V V Dr W W. K It I Amiek Amick who rc resigned iris his V V In the Cine Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery held for seventeen se years year to de- de de vote volo vot himself himsel to curing consumption said sid I am of courar opposed cd to isolation because be- be cause CUSO my ml theory Is that consumption is not notS S directly produced by any outside cause I hold that the bacillus microbe Is I the effect or orV V pro product act and Ind not the thc cause causa of the tho disease so soV I f V it His Is evident in opinion that V very my Isolation Isola- Isola ola I V t. t lion tion ton would accomplish no 10 good V t V V VV You mean to t say ay then that the tho inhaling V of the tho up dried sputa containing these microbes microbes mi ml- is 1 not harmful V 4 On Oc 01 the tho contrary Dr Amick replied V V any dust or extraneous matter would produce pro pro- pro V duce a 0 mechanical mechanic of the parts and V V be to occasion lung lues trouble trouble trouble-as M as the In Inhalation In In- V halation of tire tho dried drle of a consumptive Just v a S a speck of duet dutt irritates the tc eye tho the V of any foreign matter irritates th thair the theair to toai air ai passages Continuing Dr Amick said You may mal state stat as mv my opinion that tat tb the natural secretion of the healthy mucous membrane membrane mem mem- brane either cither destroys the germs so inhaled o or renders them of no effect so 8 far tr as n any acy in intrinsic In- In power to t produce the tie disease diee Is I concerned con con- If I consumption was wa either cither con contagious tag ous OUI or infectious I would have hare had ha it I lon long since as a I am dally daily closeted with wIh the lbs worst wort possible cases cues and during daring the investigatIon leading to my ml discovery of the cause canso ant and nd cure of the disease I sought out oat the n worst wont ore forms of it and made microscopic examina- examina lion ton of diseased cd sputa a marked feature o omy of my professional work and nd research research No Notwithstanding Not Not- Not withstanding all al this and although predisposed predis- predis posed to t consumption I 1 have inhaled th the diseased breath and germs erm of patients patent almost continually without ill m ef d. ef- ef tech feet ectOn On what grounds gounds doctor have all al these appeals for the isolation of consumption bee been made madel madelOn I On 01 the tho theory rl of some lome bacteriologists bacteriologist that the disease Is communicated by bl microbes microbe expectorated by the consumptive Asked as 1 to how many of tho the medical profession profession pro pro- pro agreed with wih his theory to the contrary contrary con con- Dr Amiek Amick said sid From all al I co can learn perhaps one one half one hal half and a majority of th the theother other half hail hal freely express their surprise that considering my treatment Is not based bled on th the te bacilli bacIl theory 11 it proves so efficacious A Ayea year yea or two tO I w was as as practically alone in ad ad- vacating my theory but day to-day t-ll t the sire physicians l agreeing with me mo are arc numbered num num- by thousand thousands and I prophesy prophecy that in 11 a afew I few years vcr very f few will m contend that tat th the microbe causes the disease I make no al attempt at- at at tempt to t destroy the bacilli In my treatment treatment for they disappear of themselves as the disease die dis dis ease is conquered and this is 15 observed I In using the microscope by physicians ns prescribing ing my medicines I consider this the stron strong strong- cst cat possible l proof roof tb that microbes arc are not th tho cause of the disease and that they can no not exist under normal healthy conditions I It I docs does not require a to t understand that inasmuch as lS the bacilli bacil are not fount found Until the expectoration becomes that they thel could not produce this purulent condition No unlike smallpox the tho disease discos does docs not announce It Itself el in any a manner but bat begins with wih gradually IncreasIng increasIng Ing lug weakness loss oC of strength and appetite and Ind Is 1 firmly seated before the bacilli bacil ar MC are produced thus thas showing tb that t the disease pro pre cedes these theae germs erms Suppose Suppo e you roa yourself said Dr Amick to the Post Pod man caught caugh cod suppose upp se that cold coid ran into catarrhs catarrhal pneumonia which in turn resulted in con conS sampton I do not think any Iny one could make Inako you yoa believe beleve it was WI a microbe instead of a n draught or exposure which occa occasioned your catching coil col l and yet you admit admi th the cold produced the disease No I firmly contend concluded Dr Arnick Amick that th the Isolation and separation of these poor sic sick consumptives from the only ones one who for at at- a- a sake uke would care caro for them la is I no not only Inhuman but unnecessary and not only unnecessary but impracticable Pica Please e remember remember remember re re- re- re member that they arc numbered not by bl hundred hundreds nun hun hun- dred dred- dred or thou by hundreds hundred of thou thou- an nude js and that nearly every one ono who rend reads tho the Post Pod has ha near and dear relatives In consumption consumption con con- who bo properly administered to can bo be restored to health but whom bom isolation ml might ht place beyond all aU hope hope It I will no argument to t convince you that the rela rela- tires of these theo sick ones will wi vigorously protest protest pro pro- pro test any such subh enactment and Ind the good citizens citizen of this country will wi help them prevent the carrying out of the tho proposed cruel imposition Dr Brunning said laid Is increasing in cities cies on account account ac ae- ac- ac count coant of the Ibo favorable conditions which ex cx- tX- tX lit 1st for its Hs atO All el Al ca cs of of the the disease are communicated There arc no sporadic cases eases The germs arc are in the thc atmosphere atmos atmos- phere which everybody bre breathes thes but they only take talce hold In a favorable soi soil in the proper type of human organism Isolation of Df consumptives Is People attending attend attend- alend- alend log ing them should use great care caro in disinfecting disinfect disinfect- ing lug the discharges The Tho disease Is contagious contal- contal ous oas from its H. start Do you think that Ohio should imitate tho Michigan State Board of Health's action acton in putting consumption in the list of con con- diseases along with smallpox scarlet scarle fever and cholera I Well Wel there Is I not quite the same tamo danger dauge From contraption consumption as there is 1 from smallpox Most Moat dl diseases eles are contagious Consumption can never bo be stamped out oat by bl law lw People suffering from it can not be dragged from their homes to a special ho Dr T T. C. C Minor declared that he took tok no stock in the theory that consumption is con con- The death rate rat from consumption Is rl 1 ways greatest on the sea coast |