Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-08
TREATMENT Of
TUBERCULOSIS
Women's Clubs Taking an
Active Part in Stamping
Out This Disease
The Local Committee Ex-
plains Some Of the
| Plans Devised

! A bill is now pending before con-
gress asking for an appropriation of n
an appropriation of three-fourths Of a |
cent per capita on the 100000 people |
of the United States to investigate
and develop methods Of treatment of
tuberculosis"
The Importance of this bill can best
be demonstrated by showing how the
provisions covered by it will be used
The intention of the bill is education
al and embraces % supplying free of
cost an authoritative statement of the
best methods of treating tuberculosis
~ Supplying free of cost reports on
later developments and other litera-
ture having for it's object the suppress
sion of tuberculosis. .(3) For the col
lection of data models and plans
which shall form permanent ex-
hibit.
Scientists agree that the only way
of suppressing tuberculosis is to edu-
cate the public in its prevention and
cure.
Two elements enter into the educa-
ton of the public, the old saw, you
gan lead a horse to water, but you
cannot make him drink" being as
true now as ever. The provisions of
this bill having been met, by having
an organization the members of which
are the home makers of the state, who
will create an interest in the suppress
sion Of tuberculosis in their particu-
lar community. If this is done the
problem OF stamping this scourge from
our country is resolved into the simple
task of each city and town taking care
of itself
The basis for successful move
ment along these lines must be
knowledge. Each year new books on
the subject are issued-usually of high
cost, voluminous and technical-re-
fecting the experience or investiga-
: tons of one man.
, The bill before congress provides
, for the publication and free distir-
button of concise statement of how
to prevent and how to cure tubercu-
losis, followed by other publications.
, Obviously, these should be published
, in several languages.
| Given these reports, the health de-
partment of the local woman's club
will make it possible that every home
shall have copy. Definite informa-
D ton having been supplied, what fol-
t lows? Nothing, unless each person is
impressed with the importance of MAX
ing use of the information. There is
no one factor of such educational
| value as the exhibit. The data, pic
lures, models, and other material
| forming it, remain in the memory long
after the printed word has escaped.
: clans and laity together with COM
e mon interest Local conditions are
: studied perhaps for the first time. An
interest and enthusiasm are awaken
3 ed which nay easily be guided to re-
suit in movement of local health or
It dinances. These exhibitions are often
followed by the installing of visiting
n nurse, the fumigating of houses-ifl-
r deed a general municipal house-clean-
ing. The community is reused to care
r. for itself, and when this occurs all
It over a state. the problem of the sup
preston of tuberculosis in that state
n is solved
BY having a model exhibit owned by
Is the government which may be copied
such states as have no state exhibit
is may be easily aroused to secure one
a. and the local woman's club would Gre
le through her connection with the in
r terests of every town and city she
g would be able to plan a tour for the
exhibit. This must result in uniform
health laws throughout the country.
The entire intention of the bill is the
le education of the home maker that she
d. may care for her own invalid, that SHIT
e. may teach her own child the simple
lie facts which will result in the suppress
~ sion of tuberculosis.
w In asking the support of every maj
and woman for the bill, we feel tina
we are simply asking you to protec
your own home against scourge.
in In order that the members of con
IS gress may know whether or not resi-
e. dents in all of the states wish tn
e, scourge stamped from their own state
m we ask all who desire it to write
on personal letter to the members oflcor
,u- gress from their own states. askin
lis them to vote in favor of the bill as
stands.