The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-09-02
IMPORTANT CONGRESS
WASHINGTON PREPARING FOR
TUBERCULOSIS CONVENTION.
Few Men Who know Anything About
the Great White Plague will be

Few Men Who Know Anything About
the Great White Plague will be
Absent.
a dispatch from Washington, says
active preparations for the big tuber-
culosis congress that is to begin it's
sessions in that city September p
are now we'll under way, and as stat
ed in this correspondence there is
hardly man in this or any other
country who knows anything about
this dread disease who will be alb
sent from the meetings.
Installation of the exhibits for the
congress, which will be placed on dis
play for the benefit and study of the
delegates will be commenced early
mex. week by DR.. Henry Deyer. U. S.
n. chairman of the committee on
exhibits.
Every thirty-siX minutes there is
a death from consumption in the
State of New York is the remark
able statement that will appear on
one of tie charts to be shown in
the New York section of the exhi-
bits.
To many the death figures given
here will DC surprising and even
startling The great majority of
people have no conception Of the aw-
full ravages of this diseaSe-the dead
| ly work of the Great White Plague" :"
More profound still is the ignorance
of the nature of the disease. Be-
lieving and regarding it as heredi-
tary and therefore practically incur
able, humanity has for many years
suffered tuberculosis to go uncheck-
ed, but science has lately come to
the front and it has been clearly
proven time and time again that the
disease is not near so bad as it seems
when ordinary precautions are TAX
en- and when common scense tactics
are employed to stamp it out when
it is first discovered.
! To disseminate our present day
knowledge of the means and methods
for checking and securing control ov-
er this terrible scourge, an education
al campaign of the highest impor'
tance to humanity and to science was
carried on in many cities of New
York State during the last year But
the people in the rural districts
those who ore not permitted because
of their isolated situation to take ad'
vantage of what is allowed those il
the cities-are tc Je better taker
care of in the To then
should be impe he informa
ton possible a. Jul nc disease, it!
origin, and tt and only
thorough metho, : effectually get
ting rid of it
1t is noteworthy fact that figure:
compiled by the census bureau show
conclusively that more people con
tract and die from tuberculosis il
the small towns than in the larger
cities in proportion to the number o.
Inhabitants per square mile.
The exhibits that are to form par
Of the congress will be made up o.
maps. diagrams, models of well light
ed and well ventilated factories ane
those ill-kept and badly ventilated
for the purpose OF comparison. There
will be many models of: sweat-shol
work rooms taken from actual life
in New York, Chicago and other cit
les where the tuberculosis germ Ind:
an excellent breeding place in man!
instances. Pictures of dispensarie:
and sanitariums where consumptive:
| are treated until restored to healt.
and vigor will also be shown.
It is the opinion of DR.. Boyer ano
others arranging for the congress
THAT if those really interested in the
Icrusade against the ravages of tuber,
culosis will take the trouble to come
to Washington during the time the
convention is being held they may
Ilearn facts that will be of inestimable
value to them and that will in many
cases, save the lives of their loved
ones.
All may come who wish. There
will be no restriction and the sessions
of the congress will be open to the
|public Not only this, but the ex-
-
lection in all probability that has ever
been gotten together at any one time
before, will be free and will be .ex-
planned by skilled scientists conpe-
tent to point out all the important
| features in connection with them.