AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3161, 13 April 1909, Page 3

AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.

The New York correspondent of the London "Times"' furnishes details of a plant for the complete eradication of tuberculosis from the city of New York which has been formulated by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, a prominent physician and bacteriologist. The correspondent says —"In the course of a conversation which I have had with him, Dr. Hutchhson told me that the scheme was for the establishment of a series of camps to accommodate some 12.000 people at one time. Not all of them would be patients. The fact that the children and other relatives of tuberculosis patients have been proved to contract fie disease from proximity to the patients would make it advisable, when one member of a family is attacked, that he should be sent to one camp and others members of the family to another, in order that any tendency to contract the disease may be counteracted, by means of fresh air ar.d fond. Dr. Hutchinson tells me that he has no faith in artificial climates —that is m treating a patient in a climate other than the one he is used to, nor in excess of sunshine. Dr. Hutchinson's scheme calls for between 20,000,000 dollars (£4,000,000) and 30,000,000 dollars (£6,000,000.) At present there are between 30,00U and 40,000 cases known in New York, and some 20,000 not reported."