The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-20
Women of United States To Be
United in Great War Being
Made Against Consumption
CLUB WOMEN TO AID WORK
Wealthy Women Give Large Sums to
Found Sanitariums for Consump-
tives While Others Work to
Push Fight in States

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One million women, representing
cities, towns, villages and isolated
rural settlements in every section of
the country, are today enlisted in
campaign against tuberculosis, accord
ing to a statement issued by the Ma
tional Association for the study and
prevention of tuberculosis. In legisla-
lures, in Congress at Washington, in
society gatherings, in churches and
clubs, through speaking and writing
in evary possible way, the women of
the country are persistently fighting
consumption.
With an organization established in
every state of the country, under the
direction of the General Federation of
clubs in Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands,
Porto Rico and the Canal Zone, the
women of the country have entered
systematic crusade to carry the mes
sage of the prevention and cure of
tuberculosis into every American home.
The organization of the women s
anti tuberculosis campaign was definite
ly begun in st. Paul in 1906, at the
time of the biennial meeting of the
General Federation of Women IS Clubs
when that body sanctioned resolution
''to make the prevention and cure of
tuberculosis subject of study" and
made Mrs. Rufus P. Williams, of Cam
bridge, massachusetts, chairman of the
New Department, called the 'EHealth
| Department of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs" For the purpose
of extending the campaign into the
many cities and towns of the country,
the central committee makes every local
and state club under it's jurisdiction
responsible for the work in it's own
community.
The Executive Board of the Mothers
Congress has also recently entered into
the crusade, and has prepared circulars
and literature on the prevention Of con
sumption, which are being circulated
broadcast throughout the country In
every city where the Congress is repre-
sented, an Advisory Board Of local
physicians is being formed to help ed
ucate mothers about tuberculosis.
Other national organizations of women
have given favorable consideration to
the campaign against tuberculosis.
One of the most notable campaigns
which is being carried on by the women
is that in the southern states in con-
nection with the travelling exhibit Of
the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis.
In Tennessee, Florida and Alabama,
whole states have been stirred by the
activity of the women IS organizations.
In North and South Carolina plans for
similar campaigns are now in progress.
! A large number of women occupying
prominent positions in society or on the
stage, are taking an active interest in
the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Mrs.
w. K. Vanderbilt has recently given
million dollars for sanitary homes for
Iconsumptlves. Mrs. Keith Spalding Of
Chicago has erected sanatorium for
the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute at
a cost of about fifty thousand dollars;
Mrs. Coils P. Huntington and Mrs.
Borden Hartman have given largely to
| the consumption fight. In Porto Rice
Mrs. Albert Norton Wood, wife of a
prominent army officer stationed at San
Juan, has stirred the entire island
| through the anti tuberculosis crusade
she inaugurated Nine. Emma Calve is
| a most enthusiastic worker, and has
given largely of her talent and money
! Iva UAC ICllSI VI GuUGICu1USlS Suu6TbIS,
and Miss Olga Nethersole has even
lectured before the public on tuber
culosis.
| And the fight is not only being car
fied on by women organized in clubs
and by the wealthy women, but by the
working women in the general move
,ment against tuberculosis, and by the
women who are battling hand in hand
fWith the disease In connection with the
religious and philanthropic organiza-
tions of the country. The special tub
erculosis nurse, too, is a recent addition
to the fighting force enlisted against
consumption, and almost all of these
are women. No city campaign is com
plete today without such a nurse, and
on this account hundreds of them are
devoting their lives in unselfsh service
for the relief Of human suffering.
Apropos of that long continued
squabble over the mayors "ofice =
that distinguished official has the
laugh on the members Of the Council.
He has had his own way in the mat