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He said that all the reports showed more or less efficient sanitary policing, but that with the exception of the International and Great Northern Railroad none of the roads were disinfecting the cars in the sense contemplated by the law. Dr. Jameson, Chief Surgeon of that road, had said that the International and Great Northern were using, with satisfaction, a certain device of a formaldehyde generator. Dr. Daniel pointed out that the law requires disinfection, sterilization; and that this can not be accomplished by hot air, ventilation, sunshine, cleaning up, nor by the use of liquids as spray, nor by sheets wet with formaline. The danger lies in the dust of the car, in which the living organisms of consumption, coughed or spit up by consumptive travelers, and other diseases have found lodgment, and this dust permeates the carpets, curtains, cushions and all textile equipment in the car; they can not be reached by any other agency than a germicidal gas, which must be generated in such volume as to be forced into and through all such fabrics. It is the conclusion of all authorities, he said, that for this purpose formaldehyde gas alone is efficient. He pointed out the objections to sulphur, or chlorine, their bleaching and corroding properties. Besides these objections, they do not kill pathogenic bacteria. The choice of germicides is narrowed down to a gas, which alone can reach the bacilli anywhere and everywhere and kill them, and the choice of a gas is narrowed down to formaldehyde. There are numerous devices on the market for making formaldehyde-all more or less efficient—and it is only a matter of choice, he said, or selection of the device found by trial to generate the gas in greatest quantity and with the greatest rapidity, cæteris paribus. So long as cars are upholstered with germ-harboring fabrics, so long would it be necessary to fumigate them; no amount of cleaning up or keeping clean will sterilize them. The day will come, he said, when the interest of the public health will demand that sleepers shall be as aseptic as a surgeon's operating room. It should contain nothing that can not be wiped off with a sponge wet with bi-chloride solution. Evolution is taking place in the sleeper as it did in the bedstead. We older ones remember when the bed and bedstead were an abomination in the sight of the Lord, with its curtains and things. to harbor all sorts of germs. Now we have enameled iron or brass bedsteads as light as a cane chair, and the thinnest mattress and woven wire springs. "If I were a railroad surgeon," said he, "I would advise the rapid elimination of all equipment in cars that can harbor disease germs. As new cars are constructed, let them be equipped with rattan or woven wire seats, discard woolen curtains and blankets, throw away all carpets and rugs. Use linen or glazed canvas curtains if you must have curtains. They can be boiled or washed with germicide solutions. In a few years this new car will have replaced the deathdealing, disease-harboring abominations now in use, and in which the unsuspecting public have to sleep. A man takes his life in his the importance of a remedy GRAY'S Glycerine TONIC makes it the most valuable Summer tonic and reconstructive THE PURDUE FREDERICK CO., Comp. No. 15 Murray Street, New York. CLIN & CO. No. 20 RUE DES FOSSÉS-SAINT-JACQUES, PARIS ADVANTAGES OF THE PHOSPHOTAL AND OF THE GUAÏACOPHOSPHAL: Agents for the U. 8. E. FOUGERA & CO., New York No physician can afford to be indifferent regarding the accurate filling of his prescription. hand every time he lies down in one of the stuffy, ill-ventilated. over-heated, dust and disease-infected 'berths,' so-called." In conclusion, Dr. Tabor thanked the gentlemen for their presence and assistance and said that he could not tell just when the rules would be issued, as his office force is extremely limited. He assured the surgeons that while the law would be enforced he would not assume autocratic power; that within the next few days some regulations will be issued, which, he said, would meet with general approval. He would adopt the suggestions for experiments to find a practical germicide and said they would be conducted. Thought disinfection should precede sweeping so as to not throw germs out on the public; objected to sweeping en route and said he would be particular as to watering the public. He also said the day has come for the elimination of plush, hangings, etc. Blowing out the dust does not destroy the germs; it only unloads them on the outside public. Dr. Tabor gave his views at length. His remarks met with much approval and were greeted with applause. ANOTHER YELLOW FEVER SCARE is on. If the disease is only propagated by the steg. fac. as the authorities say, it is only a matter of mosquito bars, and no guilty mosquito should be allowed to escape from Tampico or Merida. But the mosquito theory advocates -Surgeon General Wyman et al.—are not willing to put their faith to the touch; they depend still on quarantine and disinfection. So does Texas. It is sorter like the parson who, when his horse ran away with his buggy, trusted to providence till the breeching broke; then he jumped out. Society Notes. Dr. F. E. Daniel, Austin, Texas. DEAR DOCTOR: Dr. Sam R. Burroughs, councilor for the Eleventh District, organized the Leon County Medical Association at this place on the 22nd instant, with a charter membership of 19. The following officers were elected: Dr. S. R. Burroughs, Buffalo, President; Dr. W. T. Evans, Jewett, Vice-President; Dr. J. H. Joyce, Buffalo, Secretary-Treasurer. Dr. E. O. Boggs, Marquez, Dr. D. W. Montgomery, Centerville, Dr. H. H. Thompson, Leona, compose the board of censors, and Dr. Z. J. Spruiell, of Jewett, was elected delegate to the State Association. Old Leon will be in the front rank. Yours fraternally, E. O. BOGGS. American Congress on Tuberculosis-Session of 1903-4. Honorary Presidents.-Lay: Hon. John Hay, Gen. Russell A. Alger, Hon. ex-Judge A. H. Dailey, Hon. Judge C. G. Garrison,Hon. The Earl of Minto. Medical: Prof. J. G. Adami, M. D., Dr. A. N. Bell, Prof. Charles H. Hughes, Gen. Presley M. Rixie, Gen. Nicholas Senn. Council. Moritz Ellinger, Esq., Chairman; J. Mount Bleyer, M. D., New York City; A. P. Grinnell, M. D., Vermont; H. Edwin Lewis, M. D., Vermont; Richard J. Nunn, M. D., Georgia; W. F. Drewey, M. D., Virginia; M. K. Kassabian, M. D., Pennsylvania; J. W. P. Smithwick, North Carolina. Officers.-President, E. J. Barrick, M. D., Toronto, Ontario; First Vice-President, F. E. Daniel, M. D., Austin, Texas; Second Vice-President, L. Bradford Prince, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Third Vice-President, Dr. Charles K. Cole, Helena, Montana; Fourth Vice-President, Dr. Sofus B. Nelson. Pullman, Wash.; Fifth Vice-President, Dr. A. M. Linn, Des Moines, Iowa; Secretary, Samuel Bell Thomas, 290 Broadway, New York; Treasurer, Clark Bell, 39 Broadway, New York. NEW YORK, July 13, 1903. To Officers and Members of State Medical Associations or Other Medical Bodies or Associations Interested in the Prevention of Tuberculosis. GENTLEMEN: The Governing Council of the American Congress on Tuberculosis have authorized and directed the undersigned to invite each member of your body to co-operate with this body in a congress to be held at St. Louis in 1904, and if you will contribute a paper to be read before the body or any of its sections, to send the title of the same to the undersigned. We have also been instructed to ask your organization to appoint at least three delegates to represent your association at such congress, and advise us of the names and addresses of such delegates. An early reply will be appreciated. Respectfully yours, E. J. BARRICK, M. D., President, SAMUEL BELL THOMAS, Secretary. 290 Broadway, New York City. The following has also been issued by the Congress: NEW YORK, July 14, 1903. DEAR COLLEAGUE: At a meeting of the Council of the American Congress on Tuberculosis, a resolution was adopted, unanimously fixing the annual dues of the Congress of 1903 at the nominal sum of $1.00, from June 4, 1902, to June 10, 1903. The treasurer was ordered to send out bills for the annual dues to every enrolled member of the Congress of 1902. If you wish to remain a member of the Congress for 1903, please remit your dues, $1.00, and your name will be entered on the roll of members of the Congress of 1903. Those who prefer not to be so enrolled wil! advise the undersigned or the secretary. You are reminded that by action of the council accepting the offer of the Medico-Legal Journal, it was provided, that: |