The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-14
OUT OF HASKELL.
Shawnee County Boy Found to
Have tuberculosis.
Father Brings Son to Secretary
Crumbine of Board of Health.
SEEKSREINS STATEN ENT
An Example of How Dread
Disease Is Neglected.
No SYMPTOMS to Warn Young
Man of Danger.

A State Journal reporter happened to
be in the office of DR.. S. J. Crumbine
of the state board of health Friday
when the door was opened and a big,
burly farmer, followed by a young man
of about II years entered.
II am Mr.. - of Rossville,'' said
the man to DR.. Crumbine. "This is
my son. I sent him over to Lawrence
to go to school. and they wouldn't let
him stay They said he had something
-tubercular, or something like
that. 1 went to the doctor up at Ross
vile, and he told me to come and see
you. My son amt sick. I want to
know how to make those people admit
him to school. The doctor at RoSsvflle
examined him and says he is all right.
What school was it? The universe
typ" asked DR.. Crumbine.
''No-Haskell," said the big farmer.
The boy was of Indian blood, but didn't
show it.
ANY tuberculosis in your family?''
asked DR.. Crumbine of the father.
NO nothing of the sort on either
side, nor with the boys grandparents,
DO you cough?'' asked DR.. Crum-
bine of the boy.
DO you have any trouble with your
throat?"
mo, not a bit," said the boy.
Did they take your temperature over
there at HASKELL" asked the doctor.
Yes"
Did they put anything into your
eyer"
NO. They put something into my
arm though"
"Oh. I see," said the doctor.
Here the father produced long Of
fetal envelope bearing the department
of interior frank Out of it he took
paper and handed it to DR.. Crumblne-
This is what they sent me from Has
ken," he said.
Dr.. Crumbine took the paper and read
it.
'.They have made the tuberculin test
amining the paper, land have found by
the reaction that he is afH1cted with
tuberculosis. That settles it.. There
isn't any ground for dispute after this
test is made"
"Yes, but my son is well-he doesn't
cough or spit" protested the father.
1.-The coughing and splitting will come
later all right, If you don't do some
thing" said the doctor You ought TO
be mighty thankful to those HaSkeH
doctors that they have found out the
condition of things in time Your son
is apparently we'll now. and he can pc
cured. When person beglnS 10 cough
with tuberculosis, it is usually too late.
You have discovered the condition In
time to save your sons life, that's just
the size of it, and if you are wise you
won't waste any time in getting MIN
started toward a cure. The fact that
Won haven't any tuberculosis in your
family is a point in his favor, though
the idea that tuberculosis is hereo1tary
is lust about abandoned now days. 1t is
a disease which is caught by lnIectloh'
lust like diphtheria."
'"There used to be a young man |
come out from Topeka to our place |
to hunt and fish, said the father.
HE had consumption awful bad. I |
hi
well, but he was out there several
summers
ut might have come from him. No
body can tell"
''Wen, in the firsr place, don't get
the notion that this is something you |
can take care of at home. Don't fool
with patent medicine. Out here in the |
hills about 10 miles from Iopeka
there is a tubercular camp, run by
Dr. of this city. Take your boy |
there and let him stay out doors all
the time under the care of an expert
nurse with just the right kind of
food. Let him stay there all winter,
and by spring he ought to be about all
right again"
The man, in his slow and ponder
Gus way, thanked the doctor and de-
parted with his afflicted son.
Now 1 wonder said DR.. Crum-
bine, "if those people will do. any
thing? 1 am frank to say l doubt
whether they will. L gave 1t to them
straight-it seemed rather hard to
talk that way before the boy, but it's
the only way you can convince some
people of danger. That's the trouble
with this tuberculosis proposition.
People don't appreciate how serious it
IS They won't believe they are sick
until they are too far gone to save.
We've got to educate people before
we can make much Roadway in the
fight against tuberculosis
Governor HOch VIII Act.
Acting in conjunction with DIR. S. ].
Crum bine of the state board of
health, Governor Hoch will shortly
issue a call for a state tubercular con-
vention, to organize a state branch of
the National association for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis.
The convention will be held in To-
peka sometime during the month of
December.
Dr. Crumbine's plans for conduct
ing a state wide campaign against
were fully explained in
Fridays State Journal. The state tu-
oercular convention will be chiefly
for the purpose of organizing state
for the prevention of the
spread of tuberculosis. Through this
society the work of educating the peo-
Die of the state in the origin. spread
ind prevention of tuberculosis will be
carried on.