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THE WHITE PERIL
Consumption Must Be Prevented
Rather Than Cured.
STAMP OUT THE INFECTION.
Unless the Germs of the Disease In the
Habitation, Whether It Be House or
Tent, Are Utterly Destroyed Fresh
Air and "Cures" Avail Little.
There is no cure for tuberculosis,
and probably never will be, accepting
the word "cure" in the sense of some
special medicine. A disease prevented
is better than cured, for no one is so
well off physically or financially after
any illness, and particularly does this
truth apply to tuberculosis. The suc
cessful prevention of a disease does
away with any need for its "cure."
This is well exemplified in the case of
yellow fever. We have never succeed
ed in finding a cure for that former
scourge of the south, but we have
done far better. We have wiped out
the disease bodily, bag and baggage,
by simple preventive methods.
So writes Dr. F. C. Walsh in the
Technical World Magazine, and he de
clares that notwithstanding the "op
timists," the disease is on the increase.
He singles out and lays great stress on
the fact that consumption is a conta
gious disease and on the contention
that it is not contracted to any great
extent through infected milk or even
by the using the drinking cups that
consumptives use or through the "spit
ting nuisance." Its spread is through
the infection of the habitation. Hele
is one of his parables:
Brown had moved in the month of
May into a house in another part of
the town where he had always lived.
By fall he had contracted tuberculosis.
It was discovered later that several
different families who had occupied
this same house in succession had lost
several members from tuberculosis. No
attempt had ever been made to disin
fect the house. Brown went to a far
western state, pitched his tent on a
certain spot, and never made any
change from that one spot until his
death. Note that fact. As a result
the soil over which he slept night
after night became saturated with the
accumulated germs which he expelled
in coughing, so that he was continually
at night rebreathing into his system
the very "seeds" which cause the dis
ease. He was repoisoning himself
nightly and didn't know it. His sys
tem would have been able to throw off
the original "germ poison" which it
contracted, but it was not strong
enough to withstand a new dose of
the poison every night. Had he chang
ed the location of his tent daily he
could have slept each night in an at
mosphere practically germ free.
Jones is another victim. He goes to
the same state. lie has an idea that
he can get along without any tent and
sleeps with only the stars above, rolled
up in his blanket. He naturally moves
from place to place, each day sleeping
on new and different ground each
night. He ends by being cured.
Smith has the disease and goes to
the west. He feels and looks in per
fect health long before a year is gone.
He returns home, satisfied that he is
cured. In less than four months he is
again in the tenacious clutches of the
disease.
There is a lesson in this. The open
air treatment is all right, but it must
be carried out by right methods. All
early -cases of consumption which
have failed to recover by outdoor
treatment must lay the blame to
faulty treatment. Jones who recover
ed, you will remember, did change his
location every day, having no tent to
bother him. and in doing so avoided
the fatal mistake of Brown.
How about Smith? The case of
Smith is of the greatest importance.
He had recovered, you will remember,
and returned to his home feeling fine
back to what? To the very same
plague ridden room in which he had
first contracted the disease a room
reeking with tubercular germ life and
which had been occupied, it was
learned later, by five different con
sumptives at various times. The dis
ease got a hold on him a second time
for the simple reason that he came
back to the original source of his dis
ease. He should have sought new
quarters, or else the house, and partic
ularly the room he occupied, sbouJd
have been disinfected before being oc
cupied by him or any one else. These
three cases cited are but typical in
stances. There are thousands upon
thousands of Browns. Joneses and
Smiths living and dying this very day
whose story, if told in its true light,
would match exactly the simple but
pathetic history of these three men.
The thing that'the doctor brings out
is that consumption "must be prevented
rather than cured: that prevention is
easy and cheap and lies in disinfection
This, in the case of the consumptive's
quarters, he insists, should be at least
once a week. The formula is simple:
"Fumigate every room in the house
with a vapor given off by beating
formaldehyde: wash all the floors,
windows and woodwork with mild so
lutions of corrosive sublimate and
water." Fresh air, either at home or
elsewhere, he establishes, is in itself,
insufficient.
He reaches the conclusion that the
very existence of the hope of a "cure"
has been responsible for increase of
the disease. He . urges people 'to flee
from consumption by killing it in the
germ that larks in house or ground.
Think all you speak, bat speak not
all you think Delaune.
FRONT DOOR NIGHT BELLS,
Doctors Are Not the Only Ones Who
Have Use For Them.
At 1 o'clock in the morning a man
who was looking for a doctor found
a door plate on which he distinguished
the words, "Night bell," and rang the
bell. When the door opened and a
figure appeared in the semidarkness
of the hall he said:
"Hurry up, please. There is a sick
woman at No. 132."
The man inside said "All right," and
in a few seconds both men were rac
ing down the street to No. 132. In the
top floor front room lay a very sick
woman. The newcomer pulled a small
table to the bedside and took from his
pocket a sheet of paper and a fountain
pen.
"What on earth are you doing with
that?" said the man who had summon
ed him. "You're a nice doctor, you
are."
"Doctor?" echoed the man. "I'm not
a doctor; I'm a lawyer. Didn't you
read the sign, 'Lawyer's night bell?'"
"But what does a lawyer need of a
night bell?" the other man asked.
"To enable the people who want to
make wills in the dead of night to find
him readily," was the reply.
"Once in a while I'm called up to
straighten out more serious entangle
ments, but most of the legal papers I
write after 10 p. m. are wills. A lot of
people who take sick suddenly recol
lect that they have never made a will
and they want to repair the omission
while there is time. When you said
there was a sick woman here 1 natu
rally thought of wills, not medicine.
There is a doctor in the corner house."
New York Times.