Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01
ITO FIGHT PLAC U 81

IOWA ASSOCIATION FORMED FOR
STUDY AND PREVENTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS.
BY Proper Observance Of Sanitary
Laws Consumption May Become as
Rare and Harmless as Smallpox -
ottumWa Physicians In Attendance.
The Iowa Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis was
organized by a number of the represen-
tative physicians and laymen of the
state at a meeting held in Des Moines
Thursday. Dr.. M. Bannister and DR..
D. Q. Brockman of Ottumwa, who at
tended the meeting, returned yester-
day.
The meeting was a most enthusi.
astic one,' said DR.. D. c.. Brockman,
and q campaign of education to teach
the people how the spread of the white
plague may be prevented is to be in
augurated at once. tuberculosis is a
communicable and preventable disease
and If the people will profit by the
researches of the sanitary scientists
twenty-five years hence consumption
viii be as rare as smallpox and as
harmless"
Officers Elected.
The following officers were elected:
oetH r
mont.
First vice president-Dr. r. e. Con-
milf. Sioux City.
Second vice president-A. L. u.ick,
Des Moines.
Treasurer-Prof. f. I. Herriott, Des
MONIES.
se,retary-Dr. b. L. Stevens, Des
Moines.
Campaign Of Education.
The principal work of the associa.
ton will be an educational campaign
which will be carried on principally
through the dissemination of literature
In lectures and newspapers. The as.
ISOLATION will also work for favorable
legislation which will tend to eradicate
unsanitary conditions and protect the
public health. The legislature will
probably be asked again for an appro-
priation to build a state sanitariun
Judge Robinson Presided.
Judge G. S. Robinson OF Sioux City
was named chairman Of the meeting
and DR.. 3. L. Stevens of Des Moines
secretary. Upon the suggestion of
Livingston Farrand Of New York, sec
rotary OF the National Association for
the Prevention Of Tuberculosis, who
was present, committee of five was
appointed to effect the preliminary
work. This committee of five retired
from the room and named fifteen other
members, and this executive commit
tee elected officers and in turn named
ten more members of the executive
committee. The members Of the orig
inal committee were R. e. Commit Of
Sioux City, w. Kline Of Fort Dodge,
George Royal Of Des Moines. j. M.
Emmert Of Atlantic, and F. i. Herriott
Of Des Moines.
The other mem bers Of the committee
named by them were: Col. G. A. Clark,
Cedar Rapids; j. G. Schrader. Iowa
City; Dr.. 8. Bailey, Mount Ayr; Will
liam Larrabee, Clermont; Horace e.
Deemer, Red Oak; Fred w. Powers,
Waterloo; A. p Hanchett, Council
Bluffs; ]. P. Dolliver, Fort Dodge; E.
L. Stevens. Des Moines; A. L. Urick,
Des Moines; DR.. Leech, West Branch;
]. D. McCleary, Indianola; Mrs w. H.
Baily, Des Moines, and Mrs. James G..
Berryhill, Des Moines.
This large committee in turn Sc
lected ten more members which will
constitute the general committee The
ten members were A. B. Storms
Ames; 3. e. Dorr, Des Moines; Isaac
Loos, Iowa City; A. B. Funk, Spirit
Lake; John P. White, Oskaloosa; DR..
Summers, Milton; Jennie MCGOWAN,
Davenport; Senator COPYRIGHT, Water
loo; D. c. Brockman, Ottumwa; H. H.
Seerley, Cedar Falls. This general
committee OF ten elected the officers
whose names are given above.
The meeting lost no time in perfect
ing It's organization. A committee
drafted simple body Of rules and by
laws which were adopted These pro-
vide the meetings shall be held annual
ly and state that the object of the as
sociation shall be to study the condi-
lions and conduct campaign for the
elimination of tuberculosis In Iowa.
National Officer Present.
DR.. Livingston Farrand of New York
City, who was called on for an explain
alton of the methods followed by the
national association and state associa-
tons in organizing. gave them work
ing plan. He emphasized the good
that had already been done through
organization and said that Iowa would
be credited by her sister states as
among the pioneers In the fight
against the white plague IL it formed
state organization. He said that out
of the state organizations local organi-
cations could be formed and fostered
and thus the work spread throughout
the entire state.
Among those present were several
mem bers of the state legislature, In
Guiding Representatives M. A. Dashiell
of Indianola and Leech of West
Branch, Senator COPYRIGHT of Water
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