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OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 5. 1904.
PAGE EIGHT.
DAILY EAST
TEN
TilBERG
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Bl INFECTION
ANY TRANSMISSION BY
HEREDITY IS DOUBTFUL.
Interesting Results of Special Investi
gations In Germany Disease Most
Frequent and Oftener Fatal Among
the Poor, Especially the Children
Claimed That Great Majority of
Cases Are Due to Infection.
An Interesting account of his ob
servatlon In several .hundred cases
of tuberculosis In the Medical Uni
versity Polyclinic of Jlarburg is con
tributed by Dr. E. Schwartzkopf to
the "Deutsche Archlv fuer Kltnt9che
Jledizin (Lelpslc).
Two other physicians had found
that most of the eases of tuberculosis
in the various houses of Jlarburg
could be traced to infection.
Hereditary Influence or a special
predisposition to the disease could
not explain why healthy persons
should contract It after living in cer
tain houses, nor could it account for
the great frequency of tuberculosis
among the children In these houses.
But It was also noted how tubercu
losis rages In certain families, and it
remained nn open question whether
heredity and predisposition might not
play an important role in the develop
ment of the disease in individual
cases. In the hospital, closer obser
vations could be made on patients and
more complete information obtained
concerning the history of cases than
would be possible outside.
From observations made In this
way, the writer states that "among
the women in the hospital. CI per
cent of those affected with tubercu
losis had unquestionably been exposed
to infection, while among those who
did not have tuberculosis, only 24 per
cent had been exposed to infection.
Almost any one may chance to take a
colony of the bacilli Into his system,
but the blood Is naturally resistant to
disease germs, and, usually, repeated
infection is necessary before a case
of lung tuberculosis will develop.
"The danger of contracting tuber
culosis increases with the number of
patients in the neighborhood, and
with the duration of the exposure. A
case of infection In childhood which
becomes real lung tuberculosis by the
thirteenth year is rarely cured, and
the chance of recovery is less if re
newed infection takes place.
"After the age of H years, a person
becomes more susceptible to the dis
ease, and the susceptibility becomes
-constantly greater up to the age of 40.
There is no danger to the community
Jrjja patients suffering with tubercu
losis If proper precautions are taken
in disposing of the discharges from
the lungs. As for Inheritance of the
disease, heredity has not the least In
fluence in the origin of tuberculosis
of the lungs. That depends upon In
fection." Real Causes b Infection.
Among the cases that came under
observation, there were fewer patients
whose parents had had tuberculosis
than those whose parents had not
been affected. The danger from tu
berculosis parents does not seem to
lie In an Innate tendency to develop
Ihe disease, but in the great exposure
to infection by living with such par
ents, and, in that case, there is more
danger from the mother than from
the father, because she is more close
ly associated with the family The
question is not whether any one In the
family has died of tuberculosis, but
whether the patient has lived with
the rest of the family. Jlany observ
ers agree that from six months to a
year and a half may elapse between
the time of Infection and the appear
ance of unmistakable symptoms of
the disease, but there is a possibility
that the latent period Is much longer.
It cannot be said that a case of tu
berculosis always results when the
bacilli are taken into the body, for
we know that among the poorer
classes, at least almost every one
over 18 years of age harbors a colony
of tuberculosis bacilli. Most of the
tubercular changes remain latent, ana
the disease becomes manifest only in
the minority of cases, but a person
whose system has been infecied with
tuberculosis from chlldhool, although
the disease may have remained la
tent. Is much more suscep-.lbl to It If
exposed later in life.
The very frenuent occurr:nco of lu
berculosis among the children of the
noorer classes was shown by post mo''
tpm examination of the patients In
the hospitals. Seventeen per cent of
all such examinations ior emiaren
from 1 to 5 years of age showed tu
berculous changes, and 33 per cent
of those from 5 to U years of age,
taut and half n mile vertically up
ward. Long before the steamboat busi
ness on the Mississippi and Its tribu
taries had reached Its maximum tho
forces which were to accomplish its
ruin had begun to operate'.
The beginning of practical railroad
ing followed many years after that
of steamboatlng, but when It once
got well under way Its progress and
development rnpldly outstrlpied
those of Its older rivals.
Here was a steam engine that could
..n ,vlth Its lnml nnvwhere. It did
not have to follow water courses. It
could climb mountains, If they were
in Its way. It could serve the inland
town as well as the river port Its
sneed was four times or more that of
the steamboat.
It was not put out or commission
bv the winters but served the public
the vcar round. Clearly the steam
boat "stood little show In Its struggle
with a rival like this.
For many years, from one cause
and another, the boats held their own
but finally the railroads got the up
per hand, and their vast development
in the 2a vears following the Civil
War practically drove the steamboat
business from the rivers.
The commercial Interests of the
country have always looked with re
gret upon the disappearance of the
steamboat. There is a deep-rooted
conviction that our rivers have some
value in the commercial economy of
the country, as regulators of freight
rates, if nothing more, and there has
been a strenuous effort to maintain
active navigation. There is a hope
ful belief that the future will see the
rivers again teeming with boats, as
they do in Russia, Austria and
France, but the logic of statistics is
against it.
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COMING!
COMING! IP
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STANDARD OIL HAS BEEN
OUTCLASSED IN RUSSIA.
Other Great Monled Powers Exerted
Themselves to Discredit the Great
American Monopoly With the Rus
sian Government, and It Has Never
Gained a Foothold In That Country
Shrewd liove Against Rockefeller.
DECLINING RIVER TRAFFIC.
Railroads Have Relegated Old Boats
to the Rear.
The best days of the Mississippi
river traffice are long since past, and
the scenes that once endeared that
stream have apparently gone never to
return. '
The best year for steamboat busi
ness on Mississippi is said to have
been the one Immediately before the
outbreak of the Civil War, says Mr.
Chaterdon In the World today. Dur
ing that conflict, until the North gain
ed control of the river, commercial
boating below the mouth of the Ohio
was broken up entirely.
On the Missouri a new source of
business sprang up In the early years
of the war by the discovery of gold
at the headwaters of that stream.
Then began that most remarkable
episode in the history of river navi
gation, the sending of cargoes from
SL Louis to the base of the Ilocky
.mountains, more than 2000 miles dls-
It may be interesting to know that
within Russia's domain the Standard
Oil Company Is meeting with some of
the most serious opposition of its
long life of plunder, says George
Weise, in the July Success.
This giant trust supplies over 90
per cent of the foreign demand for oil.
It has not competed with the large oil
Interests of Russia, which are con
trolled by the Rothschilds and the
Noble brothers, but it has never over
powered them. This is due to the
Russian laws regulating foreign trade
interests. The Standard Oil Company
controls the export price everywhere
In the world except within the limits
of Russian territory, where competi
tion has not been stifled.
Russia Is Just as rich In petroleum
products as Is the United States, and
but for the power of the Standard Oil
Company they would be supplied to
America bv Russian producers. Rus
sia protects her oil industry by a 200
per cent tariff; the United States puts
oil on the free list.
The czar Is not responsible for this
state of affairs. The power of the
Rothschilds carried it Into effect.
ti,.., neriito financiers nlctured to
the bureaucracy the infinite horror of
an American trust siowiy eaung u
way into the very center of public
.nnnnifinn hv HiinnK-lnir a stanle com-
modlty at a fluctuating price. The
Rothschilds told the Dureaucrais umi
if the Standard Oil company suouiu
t.orm no nnwprful in Russia as In
Apierica, it would only add to the
ever-uurning nres in juierum
trust and rebellion in one way or an
For that reason the Russian govern
ment created the high tarm ana per
mitted the Rothschilds and the Nobel
brothers to almost monopolize the oil
Industry.
Tallman & Co.
ask the readers of this paper who are
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a-hnm it has cured of indigestion
nalnltatlon of the heart and
Hinmnrh troubles generally. Kodol
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It Is pleasant, palatable and strength
enlng.
The Washington 4. Columbia River
Railway Special Summer Excur
sion Rates to Coast Points.
Beginning June IB, 1904, the W. &
r. n. railway will have on sale tickets
to Westport, Long Beach, Clatsop
Beech. Tokeland, Ilwaco, Searlew, Tl
Pni-lflV Park. Ocean Park. Nab
cotta, Flavel, Gearhart and return at
in nn fnr tho rniind trin.
For chlldreB of half fare age, one-
half the above rate.
Tickets will be good returning until
Cantnmhpr 30fh.
For full Information call upon or
address,
W. ADAMS.
Agent.
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