The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-17
TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE
COMMITTEE PLANS ron PEHMA-
 NEWT ORGANIZATION.
By Authority of Montgomery Mass Meeting Resolutions Are Adopt
 ed and Movement is Form ts . ally Launched. Aa

the spread or tuperculoSiS was oPSncsA formally last night and the first gun sbcomed against the consumption
 There was dress parade of the ago. when speeches were made pre- paratory to the battle, but last nignt
 a working committed of five members
 threw out a skirmish line ana me
 The meeting was held in the otiicc Avenue and the entire membership ot appointed at the mass meeting held in Montgomery, June 6, was present. pr; c. A. Mohr of Mobile, presided ana the fight against tunescaiSsis Der ab,s a.sists was the father of the anti-tubercuiosis fight. Dr. wilkerson of Montgomsry. . Birmingham News and a former sur ferer of consumption, and F. F. Glass of Montgomery were the other meni- heTs Tsere af tas mas aSsoluseiy no formaty in the meeting. The doctors and lay- men, who are interested in preventing the spread of the disease se hn snas sonas mas in recent years, discussed ways ana means of battling with 1t in an eh- tirely informal manner.
 compiled a set of resolutions, forming the Anti-Tuberculosis League or Ala.
 bama. with membership open to all
 who will contribute DO cents annuaiiy' fixing the number of meetings. inau- gurating a provisional executive com
 mittee. committee on publicity to
 keep the public alive 10 the 1ecesSisy @ Sist ease. and outlining ways and means of beginning the battle:
 The following resolutions were pre- scented and adopted:
 | Resolved, that an Anti ti-Tuberculosis League be and is hereby formed, mem bership open to alh who Twill coptrib- | of the organization shall be to insti- | tute and perpetuate a systematic edu- cational crusade for the prevention ot tuberculosis and also for the formuIa- tion. with the cooperation of tho State Medical Association. of such leg | islation as may be deemed advisable to | advance the cause and to extend the | that the League shall have two meet | ings annually, at the first of which of- | ficers shall be elected to serve one year and that general discussion or held at each meeting; that a commit | tee consisting of three laymen and | four physicians shall be appointed by
 the chairman of this meeting. said l physicians to be in afhliation with | their respective County Medical Soci- | cities, whose duties 1t shall be to at proper functions of the body until said | League at it's first annual meeting | shall provide for an executive commit tee, consisting of three laymen and | four physicians, who shall succeed the
 committee provided for by this meet
 ing: l committee created at the anti-tuber- culosis mass meeting held in Mont gomery June 6, shall be. ex-ofticio | chairman of the provisional executive f committee of the League.
 | Resolved, that committee of three | on publicity be appointed for the pur-
 posek sskl0 or ana qonthIy of the stste wit. l the action of this meeting and the l purposes of this organization, and in- viting all, who are interested, to qual-
 fly themselves and affiliate with the
 Eli P. Smith, F. P. Glass and Erwin | Craighead, were appointed as the
 Smith was elected treasurer of the l committee.
 Additional resolutions were adopted
 as follows:
 of the provisional executive committed | to have prepared without cost a suf- | ficient nunher-of short articles not ex- ceeding 500 words each, relating to | things which the people should know
 about consumption, and that 1t shall be the duty of the committee on publicity
 to secure the widest possible dissemi- | nation of the same.
 |
 visional executive committee shall com
 municate with the school authorities | throughout the State with a view to | inducing them to invite one or more members of the County Medical Society | to deliver addresses to the assembled | teachers on the subject of prevention
 and spread of consumption in the school
 room.
 "ResoIved further. That the commit | tee shall have printed suitable card board posters calling attention to Che danger of Infected sputum and of the necessity of proper disposal of the
 sputum at all times; these posters shal | be sent to certain interested parties ir all parts of the State to be placed in public buildings and places.
 | Resolved further, that the committed shall invite the cooperation of al l boards of heath and health officers oi the State in the work of preventing th' | spread of consumption.
 | Resolved further, That the expenses | of printing, postage, expressage anS stationery be paid out of the funds
 secured through membership fees anc
 The Provisional Executive Commit | tee was announced by Chairman Mohi
 as follows: Dr. W. NJ. Wikerson Montgomery, Dr. C. C. Jones, Eas Lake; Dr. Scale Harris, Union springs Dr. w. H. Sanders, Mobiles Eli P | smith. Birmingham; E. F Glass, Mont 1 gomery; Albert Parrish, Selma
 No time was fixed for holding thu next meeting, but the committee will I at once begin canvass for memberi and mail propaganda to the various | newspapers throughout the State fo publication.
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