THE WHITE PLAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1887, 23 October 1913, Page 6

THE WHITE PLAGUE.

SCATTERING GERMS BROADCAST. (By Teloerauft—Frees Aeaoolfttlon.) Auckland, October 22. "The white plague is being sown and scattered broadcast over Auckland/' said Dr. Florence Keller, at a meeting of the Hospital Board last night, when bringing forward a motion to the effect that a site bo immediately secured for a suitable homo for tubercular patients. Dr. Keller went on to explain the urgent noed for such a' home, and related a caso which hid recently come Under lior notice in a small fruiterer's ship in Ponsonby. Sho found a young giirl in an advanced Btage of tho disease, the girl's sole attendant being her mother. Tho mother would carry oat rags used by the girl for expectoration purposes, burn them in the kitohen grate, and then, with'"tubercular germs literally teeming from her finger tips, go into tho shop, and sell a child a penny apple, wiiieh .ho immediately eats." Another example Was related by the doctor. The tubercular subject in this case was the daughter of' a boardinghouse-keeper. When Dr. Keller sitw her she was over some vegetables which she was preparing for tie boarders' meals, and coughing immoderately. In another instance, a woman in aji advanced stago of tuberculosis was living in a small e.ottago with an aged mother and six children, who Must necessarily bo infected witch germs. The motion was carried.