The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-18
TO URGE
LAWS To COMBAT
WHITE PLAGUE
Will Send Special Message to
Legislature Asking
Body to Act.
SWEEPING FIGHT ON
DISEASE is PLANNED
Most Influential Men in Newark
:. Take Deep Interest in Elimi-
nation of Consumption.

I'VE must see what the State can do
in this matter. AS a State we are doing
a fine work. Our people. are willing and
ready. If the Legislature will help you
the Governor will make no trouble in
this matter"
Thus declared Governor j. Franklin
Fort at the close of the formal New
Jersey meeting yesterday of the Inter-
national tuberculosis Exhibit. after he
had listened to the convincing adj
dresses of well-informed persons from
all parts of the state. He will send a
special message to the Legislature on
the subject. He told briefly of the
umbe of people who come to his
house daily, asking aid for consump-
tives who nave been refused admittance
at Glen Gardner.
In his opening address Governor Fort
said: I'VE don't realize the magnitude
of the scourge. IL the city Of Trenton
tomorrow was %engulfed by some great
calamity there would be horror all over
the land, and sympathy from all over
the world. Yet a city's population
larger thar Trenton is swept out of
existence every year by consumption.
1t is a good thing that the people. are
awakening, and that efforts are being
made to stamp 1t out.
women are doing a great deal in
the work." said the Governor. New
Jersey Is never behind in anything.
Sometimes we move more slowly, be-
cause We are conservative. But when
We reach conclusions we move fast
toward results We stand ready and
willing to lend any aid to the protec-
ton of people and the cure and pre-
vencion of this terrible disease.
TT is regrettable and somewhat hui
initiating" he went on, that New Jer-
sey had no exhibit at this exhibition
here. I regret hat no money was ap-
propriated for the purpose. We have
n sanatorium at Glen Gardner, but
whether 1t will prove what we hope.
the future will tell. 1t is expensive, but
no cost is too great If the results de-
sired can be secured. We hope to do
more in the future. New Jersey, I hope,
will lead very soon In this splendid
work in the interest of humanity"
The Governor has ~nnounce his in
tention of sending a special message to
the Legislature. declaring his approval
of the movement to establish sanato-
RUINS for advanced cases.
Conference Last Night.
Work which is expected to have a
far-reaching effect on the stamping
out of tuberculosis in Newark and, New
Jersey was accomplished last night by
the conference of the many societies
interested. which was held in the Free
Public Library. -
Supreme Court Justice Swayze, who
presided at the meeting, will appoint
a committee composed of ~repfesentA-
tives from the various associations at
the conference, to put into immedi-
ate effect the campaign adopted last
night.
! This working committee will have a
supervisory charge of the campaign to
be waged against consumption in this
State and particularly in Newark. This
committee will be appointed by Justice
Swayze just as soon as the various as
sociations submit to him the names of
the persons they desire to be OIL it.
Representatives, from most Of
the following Organizations were
present: Board Of Health of
Newark, Board Of Chosen Free
holders, finance committee of the
Common Council, board of managers
of the Isolation Hospital at Soho, State
Department of Tenement House Super
vision, State Board Of Health, Newark
Board of Education, Newark Play
ground Commission, public health COM
mittee of the Board of Trade, New
Jersey State Association for the Pre-
vention and Relief of tuberculosis,
national body for same purpose, tuber-
culosis committee of the Newark Medi-
cal Society, Essex County Medical So
ciety, Essex Trades Council, Practi-
TONERS Society. Newark Medical and
Surgery Society, Visiting Nurses As
ISOLATION. Female Charitable Society,
United Hebrew. Charities, Home for
Crippled Children, Verona Sanatorium,
Glen Gardner Hospital and the local
hospitals. Despite the .~unfavorable
weather, a large number attended.
DIR. Hoffman, Speaks.
Justice swayze introduced as the
FIRST speaker DIR. Hoffman, who made n
! short address on the Economic AS
poets of the Tuberculosis Question"
The speaker said that it had been fig
ured that the 500 deaths from consump-
ton in the city of Newark during the
year 1907 had cost the city, in loss of
earnings, not less than $4,000, 900, figur-
ing each life worth $500. He also
gave the average g of death among
victims of the disease as 81. as COM
pared with So, the average age of per-
| sons dying from other diseases.
DIR. James I. Wrightson, of the Board
of Health, followed, and gave it as his
| opinion that education was the only
| way to stamp out consumption. He