The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-18
WAR ON DISEASE
 BEGINS THIS WEEK
Churches Called Attention to
 Tuberculosis Exhibition
ALL ALABAMA CAMPAIGN
All Other Southern Cities Want the Exi Ibitlon-keen lntereot Dis played Locally-Tennesse
 Visited Next.

| Many thousand faithful churchgoers heard about the tuberculosis exhibition yesterday,
 seventy-flve ministers called attention to l the exhibition.
 ] Seventy-five Sunday school superintend- ents announced the exhibition opening this week.
 Seyenty-flye church young peoples so- cieties brought the exhibition to the at- tention of their members.
 Today's Firing Line. Il a. m.-Conference with colored min isters in the regular ministerial assoca- ton meeting.
 1 12 a. m.-Conference with Colored Med ical association of Jefferson county at Fairyland.
 4:SO p. m.-Conference of committee of 10 business and professional men inter- ested In the welfare of Birmingham and Birmingham district.
 | Today the Birmingham district cam paign will receive new impetus Every health officer, mayor. editor. commercial association, agricultural association and women's club in the county will receive a second bulletin urging immediate action In the appointment of neighborhood commit l tees, and the taking of active measures tc make full use of the exhibition, which l will open Wednesday, The management of the exhibition hopes that beginning l Thursday the succession of special days may be unbroken until every community in the county has been served. The Board of Revenue has gone into l this exhibition matter, not alone for Bir- mingham but also that all parts of Jef- ferson county may share in the good com ! ing from the exhibition.
 "All Alabama Campaign"
 Three more counties have been added to , the list of the active participants in the battle against needless disease in the form of consumption. In 40 counties, groups of men and women are at work. The supply of printed matter originally pre- pared has been fully exhausted. Orders for many thousands have been received which must await action of the state board of health in preparing more. l In the All Alabama Campaign it was originally proposed to furnish at least one piece of printed matter for every Ala bama citizen. By this means t was hoped that all over the state the average man and the average woman might have 1 the chance of knowing that the disease is both curabe and preventable At the present time people simply don't know and many thousands are going down to an , early death from lack of easily understood | information which must be brought to the attention of the entire state through some comprehensive, cumulative campaign l of education.
 Applications Numerous. l Applications for holding the American Tuberculosis exhibition continue to reach the temporary headquarters in this city. Practically every city in Kentucky, Ten nessee and Alabama has presented its claims for the exhibition. The appli- cations are being considered at the na- tional headquarters in New York city, al- though there are not enough months in the year to take care of near all of them. 1 The latest application is Hopkinsville, Ky, which is represented in the corre- spondence by pr. R. l.. Woodland, who has asked Dr. M. M. Cullom of Nash vile to intercede for him. It is expected l that fuller announcement of the itinerary of the exhibition in these three states will be made within few days.