Favoring A Consumptive Hospital

The following resolutions were offered by Dr. Henry B. Baker to, and adopted by, the conference of Michigan health ofñcers, June 14, 1894: "Resolved, That it is the judgment of this conference of health officers and other delegates of Michigan boards of health, that consumption (and other diseases due to the bacillus tuberculosis) should be included in the list of 'Diseases dangerous to public health,' referred to in sections 1675 anc 1676 of Howell's Statutes, requiring notice by householders and physicians to the local health officer, as soon as such a disease is recognized." Resolved, That we recognize the following facts: 1. That tuberculosis is the most grave and fatal disease now affecting the health and lives of the people of this state, destroying about three thousand lives per year; 2. That this disease originates principally by transmission from man to man or from man to animáis and again to man; 3. That the spread of this disease can be best arrested by the disinfection of the sputa and other discharges, by special supervisión of those infected, and by the care of such persons under conditions which will prevent the transmission of the disease to others; 4. That such disinfection and supervisión can not be carried out in the crowded houses of the poorer classses; and 5. That, under conditions which will prevent re-infection, many consumptives may be permanently cured, and returned to their homes and work, educated in the methods of restricting the disease. In view of these facts, Resolved, That this Conference, by its officers, respectfully memorialize the next legislature for an apappropriation sufficient for the purposeof building, equipping andmaintaining a state hospital for consumptives. Resolved, That the planning, construction and equipping of the state hospital for consumptives may well be entrusted to the State Board of Health. Resolved, That the location of the hospital should be such that it may be accessible by railroad to tbe thickly settled parts of the state, and such as to permit of out-door exercise and light out-door labor whenever the weather will permit. Resolved, That although consumption is the most dangerous communicable disease, a hospital can be so planned, equipped and managed as that it shall not seriously endanger the neighboring inhabitants; and as it is desirable that it shall contribute the largestamount of sanitary education tothe teachers and to the peole of the state, therefore, Resolved, That it is the judgment of this Conference that the proposed state hospital for consumptives should be located at the seat of the State University at Ann Arbor, in order that it may afford the best opportunities for the observation and and study of this most important disease, in conjunction with the investigations now being so satisfactorily pursued in bacteriology and other departments of sanitary science, at the State Laboratory of Hygiëne. Resolved, That this Conference hereby respectfully memorializes the lepislature of Michigan at its next session to take such action as will result in a knowledge of the extent to which the dairy cattle and other animáis supplying milk, meat or other food producís to the people of Michigan are infected with tuberculosis. Alsothat it take such action as will tend to stop the spreading of tuberculosis among animáis, and from animáis to man.