PLAGUE RECEDING
SArSDR.R.UI.MATSON
Tuberculosis Specialist Tells Assembly
Audience of the Cause, Preven
tion and Cure of Disease
The United States is beginning to
show the effect of the various “anti
white plague” crusades which have
been waged in this country during
the last few years, and tuberculosis is
gradually being stamped out. Such
is the opinion expressed by Dr. R. W.
Matson, of the Portland Open Air
Sanitorium at Milwaukie, who deliv
ered an illustrated lecture on “Tu
berculosis; Its Cause, Prevention and
Cure,” during the Wednesday assem
bly hour.
‘‘In spite of the wide-spread preva
lence of the disease, great strides
have been made toward its prevention
and cure,” Dr. Matson stated. “In
ten years the death rate was reduced
60 per cent. This reform was brought
about largely by the anti-tuberculosis
societies and by the general educa
tion of the people on the subject.”
“Ordinary daylight is a powerful
tuberculosis germicide,” the doctor
continued, and the use of sunshine,
sleeping porches, tents and horsehol I
cleanliness figure very largely in the
decrease of the disease. Tuberculosis
is essentially a house infection, and
the germ itself may be killed by or
dinary daylight and sunlight in a few
hours.”
Dr. Matson stated that 90 per cent
of all persons are infected with tu
berculosis at some time in their life,
and that 50 per cent of this infection
takes place before the age of 15 years.
Three per cent of these persons re
cover, and the others are always,
more or less, susceptible to the dis
ease. The period of the highest death
rate is between the ages of 20 and 40
years.
I here is one death from tubercu
losis in the United States every three
minutes,” Dr. Matson said. “In one
year it kills more people than would
die of yellow fever in 115 years, and
in the 19th century it killed nue
people than the combined wars. To
day, one person out of every seven
or ten persons has the disease.”
In general, the speaker stated, those
persons following an indoor occupa
tion are more susceptible to the dis
ease than outside workers. A rela
tive table showed that stone workers
and printers are among those persons
having the highest death rate, and
that brakemen, sailors and miners
were among those least susceptible
to tuberculosis.
That there is a higher mortality
among certain races than among oth
ers, was stated by the speaker. Among
the negroes the death rate is very
high, and it is probably as low among
the Polish Jews as among any other
race. The reason for these differ
ences was explained by the fact that
the Jews have lived in conditions fos
tering this disease for centuries, and
their bodies have developed the pow
er of resistance against it. However,
the disease was unknown in Africa
before that country was colonized by
England, and consequently the negroes
have no natural defense.
statusoFsummer
SCHOOL STANDARDIZED
Three Terms to be Equal to One Year
Residence; Correspondence Work
Will be Systematized
Three terms of Summer School may
’now be taken in place of the one year’s
residence requirement, according to
Dr. 11. D. Sheldon, head of the De
partment of Education.
This change has been authorized in
order that teachers who have not Leon
able to take a four-year course at the
University may obtain their degree
by correspondence and Summer School
work. The hours required for a de
gree will remain the same.
The correspondence w'ork of the de
partment will be more systematized
next year. Persons taking courses
will be urged to form clubs, before
which a man sent out from the Uni
versity will appear. His business will
be to outline the work and lead dis
cussions.
Patronise oar adrartfaam.
DESI6NS “SCORE CARD” |
FOR STANDARD HOI
Hodge Would Grade Living Condi
tions Just as Milk Inspector
a Dairy
“The Standard Home,” an article
written for the February Extension
Monitor, by Dr. C. F. Hodge, Profes
sor of Social Biology, offers a score 1
card for testing the sanitation of the
home.
Th< perfect home, according to the i
car.l. scores 1,000 points. For each:
of che following ten items 100 points
are allowed:
(1) Lay of land and character of
soil (providing for drainage); (2)
ventilation and heating; (3) safe wa
ter supply; (4) plan of house (for
rooms in Western Oregon into which
sun never shines, 20 to 100 points are
deducted); (5) time saving arrange
ment of rooms must also be consid
ered; (6) plan of bams and barn
yard; (7) apparatus for personal
cleanliness (this includes bath room
facilities and house sewage dispos
al); (8) apparatus for house cleanli
ness (score perfecet only if there is an
installed vacuum cleaner); apparatus
for control of pests and vermin; (9)
sanitary, vermin-proof storage for
food; (10) beauty of the home (taste
ful shrubbery and flowers).
“We don’t know what’s eating us,”
explained Dr. Hodge. “Why, on the
Wisconsin farm when I was a boy,
we thought everything was as clean
! as could be, but the score would have
been low.
‘Some people think it is too much
to require an installed vacuum clean
er, but every home from hovel to pal
ace needs it. Dust is at the bottom
of all our throat and lung troubles.
It’s like catching flies; you can chase
the same particle of dust for a cen
tury with a feather duster. You don’t
have to catch it but once.”
The best common-sense tests of the
air and ventilation of a room, the ar
ticle states, is to see if it smells stuf
fy or close or disagreeable after one
has been in fresh air.
Some homes, Dr. Hodge says, would
score very high. Consider this one,
however:
“The kitchen-dining-living-room of
a considerable family was the only
room provided with any heating stove.
There was no bath tub in the house.
But the most disagreeable feature
was a mess of cats that habitually
slept on the dining table among the
dishes and exposed foods. They were
often seen lapping the milk and lick
ing the butter. The district school
teacher, who was expected to board
here, found this typical of the dis
trict.”
Dr. Hodge says home conditions
are no worse in Oregon than elsewhere
and that his score card is not con
structed with the idea of going into
homes in a critical or fault-finding
spirit. The purpose, as with the Bet
ter Babies Standard Score Card, from
which Dr. Hodge got the idea of a
home score card, is to enable people
to find out their rating for themselves.
CHANCES OF GETTING PHI BETA
KAPPA GOOD SAYS CLARK
“The chances for securing a chap
ter of Phi Beta Kappa are strength
ened considerably since the Board of
Regents have decided to move the
Law School to Eugene,” said R. C.
Clark, head of the History Depart
ment, who is acting as secretary for
the committee of the faculty which
is trying to be recognized by the na
tional senate of Phi Beta Kappa.
The national senate of the honorary
fraternity is composed of 20 men,
many of whom are well known to the
public of America. Among some of
the men on the senate are President
Lowell, of Harvard; Dean Edward A.
Beirge, of Wisconsin; Edward Hamil
ton Mabie, associate editor of the
Outlook; Albert Shaw, editor of the
Review of Reviews; and John H. Fin
ley, of the New Y’ork University and
formerly President of Princeton.
Coach Conibear, who seems to have
the faculty of turning out winning
crews for the University of Wash
ington, is also a track trainer. He
was the first coach that the Univer
sity of Illinois track team ever had.
In two years, between 1901 and 1903,
he had the Middle Western champions
inoculated with the bug and had won
four meets. He was succeeded by
Coach Gill.
LEE MOUNTJOY FOULLY
TACKLED BY AUTO
Lee Mountjoy was waylaid by an
automobile driven by a high school
girl, and as an aftem&th of the col
lision is now recuperating in the Iota
Chi house. The victim, returning
from town, met the auto at Ninth
and Oak streets. The two began a
dodging game. It is said that the
girl in the case, although a parvenue
at the game, finally got the better of
the scrimmage.
The auto tackled Mountjoy below
the knees, knocked him down and ran
over his ankles. In the fall Mountjoy
sustained a painful injury to his hand.
The driver of the car is unknown and
still at large.
Y. M. CO-OPERATES WITH
CHURCHES FOR STUDENTS
The Y. M. C. A. is distributing one
thousand blotters in the interests of
the series of meetings to be conduct
ed by (Eugene ministers concerning
the fundamentals of Christianity.
These meetings are primarily for Uni
versity students.
The following subjects will be giv
en:
April 25—How to Understand the
Bible.
May 2—What Shall We Believe About
God?
May 9—What Shall We Believe
About Jesus Christ?
May 16—What Is It to be a Chris
tian ?
These subjects will be the same in
each local church in the morning ser
vice, and each pastor is preparing his
address especially for the students.
SIGMA DELTA CHI TO
INSTALL KANSAS CHAPTER
Sigma Delta Chi, the honorary jour
nalistic fraternity, will install a chap
ter in the Kansas State Agricultural
College soon. Sigma Delta Chi re
quires for active membership both
marked ability and a definite inten
tion of entering the field of journal
ism.
C. R .FOUNTAIN, ’01, HONORED
BY GEORGE PEABODY COLLEGE
Prof. C. R. Fountain, who was grad
uated from Oregon in 1901 and is now
head of the Department of Physics of
the University of Georgia, has been
chosen as head of the Department of
Physics at the summer session of the
George Peabody College for Teachers,
at Nashville, Tenn. The announce
ment for the summer session shows a
list of nearly 100 on the faculty, drawn
from all over the United States.
Ruth Holmes was a dinner guest at
Mary Spiller Hall Tuesday.
Ruth Wilson, who was ill with ton
silitis and unable to go home spring
vacation, is not in school yet.
William S. Morgan, Ph. D„ of the
Pacific Unitarian College for the min
istry, in Berkeley, California, has been
selected by the Carnegie Peace Foun
dation as lecturer on international
policy and conciliation, at the Univer
sity of Oregon Summer School. The
Peace Foundation pays Dr. Morgan.
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FORMER ASSOCIATE OF PROF.
AYER LOST IN SINKING OF F-4
One of the men who lost their lives
in the F-4 in Honolulu harbor was a
former athletic associate of Fred C.
Ayer, Professor of Education. He
was George Ashcroft, and when Pro
fessor Ayer was teaching in the Nor
mal School at Tempe, Arizona, Mr.
Ashcroft was a student there. They
constituted the Normal baseball bat- j
tery, and played together also for
baseball teams in surrounding Ari
zona towns.
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