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Show EAR - KiLS - Lecture on Tuberculosis Worse Than the Disease Washington. May' 12. That fear is a prcaipr Influence toward promoting t ulicrcnln.sis than all oilier ciusos riSalnst wbkl. the 'public health ii'iinnisLs" are trying to nrolect the li -opb. wps thi- claim el" Charles W. .Miller. o Idaho, who was Ihe principal princi-pal ypraJi-.r Hr the meeting of th Apsoeiaied iialrymen of the IHstrlrt ot Coiiirnbl.i. Maryland and Virgin'. l:eld Ihtc last Dlghl: In Kiipport of his contention, Mr. Mil'er r.f;id t'na' in hi.s tale tho death rate from tuberculosis tu-berculosis last year gained inure thin 120 per cent lu-cr the nrevb us year tinder u health er.isade of Ihe health au. hot Itles. G'ing Into particulars, he said that a rt Ate lert.irer was employed who devoted himself constantly to giving lectures by magic lanterns, depicting I Ihe terrors of the w:iUe plague be-i be-i fore farmers' institutes and gatherings of teachers &nd school ehlUren- "People lelt theje exhibitions great-I great-I ly depresaed." said Mr. Miller, "and with many the depre?sion was turned into terror from perusal of the week-I week-I ly Acare bulletins which the state tu-I tu-I berculo!s lecturer furnished the newspapers. The result was that many people prepaiej for consumption consump-tion anI readily fell victims to it." He f.aid be had no doubt that the antl-tiiherciilosls antl-tiiherciilosls rcare crusade had broJht like results in other states. Me do-dared do-dared the agitation to be in the Interest In-terest of a department of public I health. I Another sensational claim was put forth by A. S Trundle v. ho undertook r to show that unreasonable harass-I harass-I inents to which the dairymen wer.? be-j be-j ln subjected on health grounds were ! largely in the Interest of a vast com-I com-I binaiion that Is striving to rnonopo- llze the dairy business of the country. |
