The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-07-01
FIGHT GAlNST
TUBERCULOSIS
lovement Has Been Started to
Establish d Relief So
ciety in This
4 city.
iunsaANS|5N BEHIND IT
WAS In ToypI Yesterday Perfecting
Plans-WIiui Be Great Aid

An anno,Indenlent that cannot fail
Eo be of itteretst to every working
&an and wbma, in the city of New
#aven is to ihd ,hffect that State Com
klissioner john r. Gunshannon of
Hartford. Is alkoht to start an organi-
Ration in Nwt Haven similar to the
Auberculosi, eeief societies he has al
Asady starttdi in Hartford, Waterbury,
AanchesteE waterbury,. Meriden and
Few Britain 1t is to be known as the
y onsumptionl Relief Society of New
ayen and III will be started in this
#ity contempbraneously with similar
organization IN Bridgeport. Mr.. Gun
khannon hopfs to organize the work
sng people ih New Haven upon the
4ubiect OF tuberculosis SO that they
EvIl elect suitable representatives 20
The International tuberculosis con-
/ vention TO bei held in Washington next
Septemher. W is hoped that at that
time the state OF Connecticut will be
able to show itself better organized
ON this subject than any other state
in the union.
MIR .Gunshannon was IN this city
yesterday ner'fecting plans for the or
ganization. He explained his plans.
!. lie said he had been urged and asked
: 10 start a SItiety of this sort in New
0Iaven By ts-e GAYLORD Farm people
Is nd by the ladies OF the Sunshine so
4 iety Of this Eity, The plan is to dis.
Afibute cards about all the factories
81 nd department. stores Of the city ask
Wing for contributions. During the
ssummer a city convention Is to be
&held at which each house or factory
Nthat has contributed any fraction OF
ESQ either through It's working people
A.or It's employers VIII be entitled to one
fdelegate and one additional delegate
kfor each additional $50 contributed.
n Mr. Gunshannon is planning to gel
! the mayor and the city treasurer oi
4 New Haven to act as president ant
3trensurer oil this organization unit
z4regular offieeAs shall be elected at th,
iconvention. .lThis has heec the piar
Ahat has bo1a adopted elsewhere ant
Aas workedlwef.
,sesides Ulcers at this convention
.ferr VIII pc elected eds--nA1amittee ol
ree in each ward in the cry thd'
Shall investigate every claim fol
treatment THAT Is made within the lin
is OF each ward and decide upon tn
nerlts OF lthe case and whether
jheald be taken in hand R the 30
rclety.
AS TO the amount OF money tina
Should be raised, no set sum has beef
decided upon In the absence OF
regular tuberculosis hospital or con
tagious disease hospital as In Hart
ford, the patients may be treate,
at Gaylord Farm or in the homes. MI
GanshannCn said that and many othe
details would have 10 be left to tn
sworkers themselves TO be decided. Al
moneys contributed by the workin
people VIII be handled by them
fselves.
Mr., Gunshannon has figures to shoy
fthat pver 225 people die In New Ha
ven every year from tuberculosis an
s-Nhat mere are probably 500 or NOR
!. now In thf city that have the diseas,
Il believe the working people Q
}Ncw HAVEN said Mr.. Gunshannor
Ifhave enough civic pride TO go int
this thing In the right way and max
70 success Of " Just as II has been
buccess elsewhere. I shall start tn
tampaignl with contribution card
Nhortly" Mr.. Gunshonnon went bac
|, Hartford last night