The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-30
Nenosha TO Organize a Commit
tee To Contest Advance of
Consumption in City
WOULD EDUCATE THE PEOPLE
People To Be Taught Fact That Con
sumption Can Be Cured and To Be
Asked To Aid in Spreading
the Work

Letters have been received in this
city urging that the people of Kenosha
take some steps to aid in pushing the
international Congress on tuberculosis
to be held at Washington next Sep
TENDER and October. The people of
this city are, asked to join in the
crusade with the other Wisconsin cit
les and the work is being taken up
with such vigor in some parts Of the
state that it is thought that a pro
gressive city like Kenosha will not be
behind in this movement which is to
mean so much to the people of the
entire world. The part that Kenosha
is to play in the crusade may be a
small one but it is demanded that
the work be we'll done here.
The main purpose of the organiza-
tion that is planned is to send an ex
hibit from Wisconsin and at the same
time start an educational crusade
throughout the state to teach the peo-
pie that tuberculosis is an unnecessary
cause for suffering, poverty and death.
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tuberculosis in this county has been
very great, so great in fact that one
fourth of all the deaths in this county
in that time have been directly attrib-
uted to the dread disease. The men
leading in the crusade against consump-
tion and kindred diseases claim that
their fatal results have been due to
ignorance and that it is the plan of
the International Congress to teach the
people that tuberculosis is not an in
durable disease and that it's spread can
be prevented in community.
The movement is not one among the
physicians Of the city but it is planned
to make it the broadcast possible move
ment. Prominent men of the city are
to be asked to take up this work and
it is the plan of the promoters of the
organization to unite under common
banner-the city officials, health ofic-
ials, clergymen, educators, dairymen,
philanthropists and in short every
public spirited persons in Kenosha.
This matter is one that will be of
the greatest interest to everyone in
the city and in other cities it is re-
garded as the greatest movement for
the benefit of the public health that
has been started in many years. The
purpose of the organization in Kenosha
will be to give the greatest publicity
TO all things pertaining to the cure
and prevention of the dread disease and
this publicity is planned by public
meetings and by the circulation of
such literature as may be sent out by
the National, State and International
Societies.
The extension department of the I'm
iversity of Wisconsin has taken I'D the
work and has prepared a number of
illustrated lectures to be given in the
various communities where consumption
has cast it's blight and the only thing
necessary to secure these lectures is for
a local committee to be formed and
money provided to pay for hall rent
and necessary expenses.
The matter is now laid before promi-
nent men of Kenosha and they are
taking great interest in the work. AS
soon as this preliminary work is done
a meeting will be called for the pur-
pose of perfecting an organization and
after that time the regular campaign
of education will be started.
The movement has the support Of All
the leading Health Associations of the
United States and of Wisconsin.