TUBERCULOSIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 25, 23 February 1909, Page 4

TUBERCULOSIS.

SCilliME FOR. .EIiADICATIUX. The -New York correspondent of The Twin's furnishes details of a plan for the complete eradication of tuberculosis from the city of New York, which lias been formulated ,by ,l)r. Woods Hutchin.so'ii, a, prominent physician and bacteriologist The correspondent says: "in tilie course of a conversation which I have bad with him, J)r. Hutchinson told me that the scheme was. for the establishment oj a. .series of camps to aecoiu'mmlate. some ;>3,0u0 pvoplc at one time. Not all of them would be jwlieuts. The J'act that the children ami othei< relatives of tuberculous paticuls have been proved to contract tho disease from proximity to Hie patients.would make it advisable, when •one member x of a, family is attacked, that he should bo sent to one camp and other members of the family to another, in order that any tendency to contract the disease may be counteracted by means ■■■of fresh air and food. ))r. Jlulchi.nso,ui lei Is me that he has no faith in artilicinl climates—that is, treating a patient in a climate other than the 07ie he is used 10, nor in excess o'f sunshine. ]),-. lru-lcliinsoiv's scheme falls for between 20.000,000 dollars ('£4,000,1)00) and .30,000,000 dollars (.tO,UU(I,nf)O). At present there are between 30,000 aiid 40,U00 eases known ■in New York, and some 20.000 not reported."