Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-22
TO SELL RED
CROSS STAMPS
Emblems Printed by Government Will
Be offered for Sale for Ben
eft of Local Organ
ization

| Red Cross stamps win be on sale in
Los Angeles at o'clock this afternoon
and regularly thereafter at the dis
tributing station at 634 Pacific Electric
| building, in charge of c. B. Boothe
The stamps, which sell for cent each,
are printed by the government but the
proceeds from the sales in Los Angeles
| will go to forward the work of the Los
! Angeles Society for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis.
The work of the society has reached
much broader plane than the organ
| izers of the Southern California Anti
tuberculosis league foresaw when that
body was established at Pasadena in
December, 1902. The helping station for
INDECENT consumptives at 1877 Buena
Vista street has materially widened
| its field of influence, and concerted
movement of leading physicians is ac-
complishing large results in awaken
| ing public interest in the problem.
! Officers and other members give their
time to the work of the society, which
| is carried out on lines approved by the
| international congress.
Following the preliminary work OF
the Southern California league state
and city organizations have taken up
the campaign against tupeIculosis'
working in harmony to accomplish the
best results their means will allow.
This plan is about one year old, ana
what has been accomplished is stated
in the following review printed in the
Bulletin of the California association:
Doing Great Work
1.-THE present status of anti-tuber-
culosis work in California is organized
somewhat as follows:
"First-A state association, to which
the city societies are maintaining
more or less intimate association.
"Second-City societies in Los An
geles, San Francisco, Redlands and San
| Diego, with several others in process OF
organization.
1.-THE Los Angeles Society for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
maintains at 1877 Buena Vista street q
helping station for the treatment of
consumptives, and it's field of influence
| is constantly growing. Through timely
| and illustrated articles in the lay press,
physicians, charitable associations and
the laity have alike learned of this in
stitution and are constantly referring
cases to it.
Los Angeles is fortunate also in be-
| ing the home of the Barlow sanatorium,
an endowed institution with capacity
of thirty-tWo beds, which has done
much good work and of which we hope
to speak at more length in a subsequent
| issue At Redlands the society has also
maintained a sanitarium and has done
efficient service.
"San Francisco's activity received a
great setback when the great disaster
overlook that city two years ago, for
on that very day arrangements had
been made for the organization of an
association. During the last two
months, however, the society effected
! permanent organization and will no
doubt give an excellent account of
itself.
'At San Diego the work has not yet
taken a tangible expression in sani-
tarium work, but plans for more active
service are being made.
cat Pasadena a health association,
owning considerable property, exists
and there is a corps of enthusiastic
workers who win organize in the near
future.
"These are some of the activities that
have thus far come into existence.
Through the Bulletin and the work of
the state society it is hoped to co-or-
dinate efforts in centers already or
ganized and to reach out and develop
interest and organization in many other
places throughout the state.
For this tuberculosis is not a local
problem or a trifing, evanescent issue.
1t is a question intimately associated
with the public health of California
and it's happy solution will depend on
loyal, concerted and united eHort on
the part of the organizations now ex-
listing and yet to be formed. These or
carnations must be the leaders in their
respective communities not only in
taking charge Of practical work to help
the poor consumptives, but in acting as
educators for the press and lay people
generally. All that is needed is tact
and diligence to bring the people at
large in line as loyal promoters of our
| efforts and then 1t will be simple
matter to go before the legislature and
secure the measures so greatly needed,
1.-The legislature meets this winter. If
we work unitedly and diligently we will
be strong enough by then to obtain
much needed legislation. But union is
essential If our influence is to be of
any avail To that and all our other
aims we ask the support of all who are
interested in the determination of the
great white plague, this plague that at
some time or other fastens its clutches
on the great majority and which UNI
necessarily carries to untimely graves
one out of every ten persons, most Of
them in the viable age period"