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50 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 6
authorities, in many instances expensive quarantine
stations were established, and great difficulty was ex-
perienced in treating the disease and making the quar-
antine effective, especially in the rural sections of the
State.
We'are still in constant danger from infection, and
we learn from the public press that the disease is pre-
valent in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Systematic vaccination is the cheapest and only ef-
fective way to check the disease, with all the loss its
presence occasions the business interests and the phy-
sical misery it entails.
The office of the State Vaccine Agent should be more
generously provided for, so that he maybe enabled to
furnish the best and purest virus in quantities sufficient
for every need.
TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
One of the most pressing matters which demands
your attention, one of surpassing importance to the
people of the State, is the prevention and treatment
of tuberculosis in all its forms, and especially pul-
monary tuberculosis.
In this connection, I wish to invite your notice to the
exceedingly clear, painstaking and comprehensive re-
port of the commission created by Act of the General
Assembly of 1902, chapter 451, and appointed by me.
The information embodied in the said report repre-
sents the fruit of much patient research, and I am
fully pursuaded the recommendations suggested by
the commission for restricting and controlling this
dread disease are conservative and practical.
Careful estimates based upon the best statistical in-
formation that can be had place the number of persons
in Maryland suffering at present from tuberculosis at
ten thousand, a number about the same as the total
population of Calvert county.
A small army of over 2,500 died of tuberculosis in
Maryland in 1902.
The same consideration for the relief of the suffering
endured by the unfortunate victims of this scourage of
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