Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1937, Page 7

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Thousands use it. Only 85¢ at drug stores. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO For the Children’s Health Science Conquering After Two District physicians and health of= ficials have dedicated this month to improving child health. This is the second of a series of articles showing what is being done to .his end. UBERCULOSIS — the ‘great white plague” of two genera- tions ago—seems to be on its way out. There is every prospect of reducing it eventually almost to the vanishing point—but the battle ground for this generation and the next will be the lungs of the child. This is a battle in which there can be no truce. Family physicians, pub- lic health officials, teachers and par- ents must co-operate to the utmost. This is the reason that so much em- phasis is being laid on this particular aspect of public health work by Dr. George C. Ruhland, health officer of the District of Columbia, in co-opera- tion with the public and parochial schools and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. This is one disease, Dr. Ruhland says, where prevention is possible and where the best and most practical treatment is the forestalling of infec- tion. Once the disease starts it may be very difficult, indeed, to combat it. Major efforts are being directed against it because the prospects for reward are so great. It may be that the “white plague” is on the retreat anyway. Its fre- quency does not seem to be so great as it was half a century ago. Per- haps a more sanitary pattern of living is contributing to this. Perhaps the tuberculosis germ itself is losing some of its virulence. But when an enemy is retreating is the best time to strike, and history bears witness, Dr. Ruhland says, that such attacks have often led to annihilation. Mass Attack Emphasized. The success of the campaign, he emphasizes, depends on a mass at- tack—not a disorganized series of minor skirmishes in the lungs of a few unfortunate individuals. There is & stubbornly persisting be- lief that tuberculosis is an “hereditary A complete sell-cut lost week! into the market we {"’} to get of these important fashions for ot this very special price! sheers that are so important occasions! first! backgrounds. Sizes Women, 38 1o 11; Littte Wom to 24%. . Cleaning! Let us toke cate of coots moths get at them! ‘Great White Plague’ Generations. disease.” This is not strictly true. The malady is due to the invasion of the body by the tubercle bacillus, a micro-organism well known and easily identified. These tubercle bacilli must come from the environment. They most assuredly are not in the germ plasm. No child ever was born with the “bugs” in its lungs. 1t is undeniably true that the dis- ease has a tendency to run in fam- ilies and the effect of this may not differ greatly from the picture of an hereditary malady. First, the child of tuberculous parents is living in very close contact with the bacilli and would be lucky, indeed, to escape them. Second, the disease is likely to have affected the economic status of the parents so that their children are not so well nourished. There is a third factor which is difficult to evaluate without present knowledge of human genetics. The “bugs” thrive better in some persons than in others. Some have weaker defenses against them. There is a good deal of reason to believe this | condition is very complexly hereditary. | But there is a world of difference between an hereditary disease and an hereditary tendency to a disease. For the first condition—a good example is the rare “bleeding disease,” which afflicts some of Europe’s royal fam- ilies—there is little to be done, ex- cept by individualized medical treat- ment of the individual victim. The frequence of the malady itself will not be affected until it is bred out of the | race. 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Their natural resistance is sufficient to throw off the disease. A few with weak defenses have been doomed to shortened lives of con- stant invalidism. That need not have been the case if the invasion had been detected In its early stages. That is the reason for the intensive, all-in- clusive X-ray examinations of the lungs of school children. There is no “shot in the arm” for tuberculosis. There are milk, sun- shine, fresh air and exercise. The effectiveness of these depends in large measure on how soon they are ad- ministered. The majority of tubercle bacilli invasions can be checked. There are, it is very likely, excep- tions. Some aspects of the disease still are very baffling. Some persons seem to have such weak natural de- fenses against the disease that very little can be done, once the germs get a foothold in the lungs. These are the almost invariably fatal cases ! of so-called “galloping T. B.” They emphasize the necessity of early ac- sion. Film Shown to King George. 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Automatic payment of pensions of $30 a month to veterans who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, or to their dependents in the event of the death of the veteran, is proposed in a bill which Representa- tive Bell, Democrat, of Missouri, has prepared to introduce today. “In view of the fact that such a decoration is such a signal honor in the United States, awarded to a very few, I feel that our Nation should make some special recognition of the brave and courageous soldiers during ’ s MAY 24, 193 times of war and national emergen- cies,” Bell said. “Other natlons of the world so honor their brave sol- diers and their dependents.” Present pension laws provide for pensions of $10 a month to veterans who have reached the age of 65 and who were decorated with the Congres- sional Medal of Honor. Representa- tive Bell's bill would provide the $30 monthly in addition to benefits al- ready being received. 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