The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-19
WILL CRITICISE
THE STATE
FOR NOT FURNISHING FUNDS
TO FURTHER WORK or TUBERCU-
LOSIS COMMISSION.

DIR. Charles Hicks In His Address
Before the Organization Meeting
of the Tuberculosis Congress To-
day, VIII Urge That the LegisIn-
ture Is Not Dealing Fairly with
the Doctors-If the state VIII Fur
nish the Money Consumption May
he Erndicated, He Says.
Dublin, Ga, Oct. 1S.-In his address
at the organization meeting OF the
Georgia Congress on tuberculosis in
Macon tomorrow. DIR. Charles Hicks,
chairman of the commission, win crit
icise the state for not furnishing funds
for the furtherence of the work. He
will cali attention to the fact that the
Legislature which created the
commission and stipulated that
the members shall serve with
out compensation and without
ever upon the the state of Georgia in
connection with said investigation"
is the same Legislature which. refused
TO appropriate the necessary money to
provide proper clerical aid to the
Department of Health so that the
by that department. He will urge that
the commission in its report deal
frankly with this feature of the states
draft on the medical fraternity.
In the resolution authorizing the APP
pointment of the commission the
General Assembly asked for report
as follows
The number of cases of tuberculosis
in this state. The annual number of
deaths from tuberculosis in the state
of Georgia; the number of cases con-
tracted within the state, and the num-
Der imported the measures that are
being taken in the various localities
for preventing the spread of the dis
ease; whether or not the physicians
of the state are in favor of taking
measures for it's prevention.
Dr.. Hicks will call attention to the
fact that the Department of Health is
not in a position to furnish the statis-
tics wanted, and that correct statistics
can only be obtained through properly
organized and legally constituted
health organizations with power to act,
and which have been provided with
means to procure necessary data. He
will state that there are many coun-
ties and municipalities in the state
which have not organized health de-
partments, and will point to the good
work that is being done by the State
Department of Agriculture, and which
is provided by the state with ample
funds with which to work. lie Will
show that if the state would furnish
the means consumption could be al
most eradicated. Along that line he
will say:
"Our state, in a temperate climate,
can. by the use of tents and starting
at the sands Of the seashore, march
with the sun up the Atlantic slope,
across the red hills of Georgia, to
the crest of the Blue Ridge and back
again, furnish at reasonable cost san
atorium facilities and a solarium the
year round in the open air.
Concerning the treatment of con-
sumption he Will say " The Great
White Plague is not hereditary. but
strictly infectious; is not only pre-
ventable and durable, but one of the
most easily cured of the chronic dis
eases. There is no specific treatment
for consumption. Drugs advertised and
drugs not advertised will not cure It.
But plenty of good food, pure water,
comfortable clothing, proper environ
ment, with plenty of fresh air and
abundance of sunshine, together with
the necessary precautionary measures
to prevent the spread of the bacilli
only, meet the indications for the cure
of tuberculosis"
DR.. Hicks will close his address with
a quotation from Pryor and another
from Knopf The one from Pryor is as
follows:
I'VE must care for the consumptive
in the right place, in the right way
and at the right time until he is cured,
instead of, as now, IN the wrong place,
in the wrong way and at the wrong
time until he is dead"