The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26
TO BATTLE WITH
WHITE PLAGUE
Prizes Are Offered in ConneC-
ton With international Con-
greSS on tuberculosis.
TO BE HELD IN SEPTEMBER
MEDICAL PROFESSION THROUGH.
OUT COUNTRY INTERESTED.

One lo1 the events TO which the med.
icaI profession throughout the country
Is looking forward 70 is the interna-
tionnl congress on tuberculosis. which
Is TO be held in Washington next Sep
TENDER. The SECRETARY Of the state
board of health. Dr. T. B. Realty. has
received from the secretary general
the announcement that a number OF
prizes are to be offered. The letter sre-
ceived here reads:
Some of the factors of the tubercu-
losis problem that are most difficult of
solution are brought prominently to
the attention by the announcement
made few days ago of the. prizes Of
Tered In connection with the Interna-
tional Congress on tuberculosis 10 be
held in Washington next September.
Naturally. the question o. sanatOria
is among the first that challenges. CON
slderatiOn. Following the ead of the
German authorities. the tendency in
many sections of this country has been
TO erect and equip sanatoria for the
treatment of incipient and hopeful
cases, and the claims of the advanced
cases have fallen most often on ears
that We're deaf TO the appeal. The eX-
ample set by England in providing for
share in waking up others to their re-
possibilities; SO it comes as a matter
ut course that one of the large prizes,
a cash prize of s., 600, is offered for
the best exhibit OF a sauatOrium for
advanced pulmonary cases, while an
other thousand-d prize viii be
awarded to the best exhibit Of an eX-
listing sanatorium for the treatment
of incipient cases. A third thousand
Toll gtlFT
or kindred institution for the tubercu-
losis poor. which makes the best show
ing.
I'm the list of prizes the attention is
about equally divided between meas
ures for the care or relief of sufferers
from the white plague, and those
concerned primarily with the preven-
ton of the disease. 1t has taken
long time for civilized peoples to find
out that the principal ground on
which the battle against tuberculosis
is fought is in the homes. 1t has
been much easier to accept scientific
discoveries than TO face the every day
fact that dirt. dampness, darkness,
vice and priVatiOn are the strongest
allies that tuberculosis has The rec
Ords Of the visiting nurses, and the
maps of lung blocks give all the
positive evidence needed on this score.
And nothing is more Slgnlncant or the
fact that the thinking part of the
world is beginning to exercise its gray
matter on this phase of the problem
than the offer of the $1,000 prize for
the best exhibit of a furnished house
for a family or group of families of
Wage-earners- The exhibit is to be de-
signed with special reference to the
crusade against tuberculosis, and this
means that in the plans for the house
plenty of fresh air and sunlight, proper
heating and sanitary arrangements
are To be looked upon as necessities,
not as luXuTieS.
For Effective Work.
The remaining thousand dollar
prize-there are to be five of that
amounts to so TO the volunteer as
sociation that will present the best
evidence of effective work done in the
prevention of relief of tuberculosis
rinfa the last international congress in