New-York tribune., 1908-11-30
WHITE PLAGUE EXHIBIT.
Tuberculosis Far Opens Tonight at
Natural History Museum.

Worlds Fair for Health will be opened this
evening in the rest wing Of the American Museum
OF Natural History 18th street and Columbus
nue 7 4-tu be the biggest tuberculosis exhibition
ever given in New York City Over TWO hundred
associations and individuals 70 exhibit Fifty
thousand square feet Of Aoor space and 10000
square feet Of wall space are required The eT-
hfbits were brought from Washington n 100
packing cases Three entire doors are occuried ~
the exhibition which a1rncs- al the Cl-leS O.
the Union are cooperating and 10 which fifteen
foreign countries have sent displays OF their work
\ feature will BE- rns exhibit Of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry. which has arranged 70 have meat
actually condemned for tuberculosis AZ slaughter
houses in this city tsken each morning 70 the ez
hibi-ton. where housekeepers will have an opoor-
tunttv 70 learn by actual vision how 70 guard
against the purchase Of infected meat About
twenty feet from the entrance IS model coT
barn. where COWS will MIXED morning and
evening Their milk. taken across 10 the neTly
constructed modal dairy. will there be cleared pas
tCurized and bottled This model dairy is The
Nathan straus exhibit
The exhibition will be open from 10 = 70 Il
7. N On weekdays and from l 70 : Sun
days. 4 number Of demonstrators Tiu Be present
during the dav and evening explain tbs eZ-
hibirs which will exempIify all that is known
about tuberculosis and all that should be done 70
wipe out this disease which statistics snow, IS
cutting of twenty lives n the United States
every hour.
The first thing they 1u point out is = larg.
chart hung over the centre Of the hall on the
ground floor On this chart in big letters The yis-
itor is told that every 2 minutes and 6 seconds
tuberculosis ends the ife Of human being in this
country. 4 row Of electric lights at the TOP OF
the chart are switched off and then on again "a
each death occurs much in the same manner as ths
women Of Paris IN the French Revolurion knitted
2 stitch for every head The guiottne cur of
But win this introduction the food for optimism
in the advanced methods portrayed for checking
and curing the scoUrge IL is considered, viii he all
the more welcome L IS designed that optimism
shall be the keynote Of The exhibition, for while
II will be shown that if the bodies Of those diving
from consumption in the United states in year
were placed three feet apart along railroad track
thev would reach from New York 20 Hartford,
Conn II will also shown that IN rhe last twenty
five years the death rate from pulraonarv tuber-
culosls in New York Cirz has been reduced from
four IN every thousand 70 INC.
The number and character OF the individual
hibtrs are legion. from framed photographs 70 re-
productions CT actual sleeping rooms and models
or houses and sana-ortIns Among them is the
model OF Z concrete. dwelling house for working
men designed bv N. 7. Morrill,, Washington ar
chitec- which non gold medal from the Inter
national Congress on tuberculosis Anothe- exhibit
Is the model typical farmhouse, the interior
OF rhich Is 50 arranged TO carry out President
Poosevelt's exhorratior 10 farmers to live IN the
besr rooms the house. instead Of -esering them
for the guests who come q seldom. Models also
shown Of balconies which be built for 81 and
BY their use save = life worth S8."1 to any com
rnunity.
-Pre opening meeting - tho exhibition -I be held
~ 80 tonight Roher- Y. De Forest, president of
the Charity Organization Society Tiu preside
AIavor Mcclellan viii make the openinE address
Among other speakers viii be DR. Thomas Oar
Hngton. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and
Controller Metz.
The regular meeting Of the Central Federated
Union On Sunday. December Is will be held IN the
auditorium hail OF the Museum Of Natural History
at / D m It viii end before Z m, when a mass
meeting will be held in connection with the eXhi-
bftion Speeches in English and German will be
made tuberculosis.