Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-08
Little Frances Marie kmOW1tor
PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
Committee of Associated Charities Dis
cusses Tuberculosis.

A meeting of the committee on the pre-
vention of consumption was held in the
general offices of the Associated Charities,
S11 G street northwest yesterday after
noon. Those present were; Gen. George NJ
Sternberg, acting chairman; Gen VIM. II.
Forwoed. Miss e. w. Jefferson Mr.. VIM
H. Baldwin. Mr.. George S. Wilson, DR..
John H. Metzerott, DID. e. buckingham,
~Dr. VIM. C. Rives. DR.. George w. Cabaniss.
DR.. F. ]. Shadd. DR.. George NJ. Kooer Mr..
Charles f. Weller and Mr.. Wallace Hatch
General Sterniberg and DIR. Kober re-
ported for the committee on care and treat
ment. The new departure in the dispensary
by which throat troubles Were treated was
discussed at some length by many of the
members present
The committee wishes to place itself on
record as being in favor of having this
work done in the dispensary, but as a num-
Der OF throat clinics are already in sue
ceSsful operation the committee desires to
have 1T understood that all work of this
kind will be limited to what is believed to
be tuberculous troubles. Gen. Sternberg
described at some length the success at
tending patients at the Starmont Sanator-
ium, recently established in Montgomery
county.
The suggestion was made by Mr. Hatch
that patients treated in the free dispensary
for consumptives and receiving a special
diet of milk and eggs from the Citizens
Relief Association should, so far as pos
sible, be helped to take an out-of-door
treatment in their homes By vote of the
committee Mr.. Hatch was instructed to
make an investigation concerning various
kinds of patent devices whereby patients
might live at home and still sleep out of
doors.
Report was made by the subcommittee on
printing and distribution. Three circulars
have been prepared and printed since the
previous meeting, it was stated, for gen
eral distribution, one for circulation among
storekeepers and one to go to housekeep-
ers. FIFTEEN hundred of the new instruction
cards were last week circulated in the
eighth grades of the public schools, and
8, 100 or the same cards have been circu-
lated among the employees of the bureau
of engraving and printing, and $50 of these
are to be sent in a few days to the mail
bag repair shop. Letters are being made
ready to send to all of the churches, ask
ing that circulars to housekeepers be dis
tributed through the churches.
Gen. Sternberg reported that he had been
called upon short time ago to present
the work being done by the committee on
the prevention of consumption before the
Baptist ministers assembled in the Hotel
Shoreham.
Mr.. William Fl. Baldwin reported as
chairman of special committee compul-
examination of sputum. The previous re-
port by this special committee, he said,
had been sent to the different medical So
cietjes of the District of Columbia and con-
ferences of various kinds held. A suggest
ed bill modelled after successful laws in
New York and elsewhere was read by Mr..
Baldwin.
BY vote of the committee DR., Noble +.
Barnes, DR. William p. Reeves and Dr.
Robert Reyburn were elected to member
ship and assigned to lecture committee.
Mr.. Hatch reported to the committee
that statements had been made showing
that there were at least a number of places
in the District where tuberculosis cattle
are to be found, and asked If the commit
tee could investigate or do anything con-
corning this matter. No formal action was
taken. but further discussion will probably
take place at the next meeting.