The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-02
RED CROSS
MOVEMENT
WHAT 1T is DOING WITH
FUNDS RECEIVED FROM
SALE OF STAMPS.
Erecting Cottages that Victims
May Receive Right Kind of
Treatment to Get Well.

w ltH Tile money received 1rO1n
the sales of Christmas stamps
last year the Indiana branch of
the American Red Cross has been
doing some effective work
against the white plague in the
state. The sales of a year ago
amounted to less than Ssh y,
which the Red Cross turned to as
large account as possible, and the
work it has been doing with this
sum indicates what may be ex-
pected should the stamp sales
this year make generous in
crease, The Red Cross has not
only taken care of individual vic
Tins of the white plague in pri-
vate sanitariums, but it erected
twelve cottages on the city hos
pital grounds in indianapolis,
where victims of the plague lived
in comfort, have good nursing
food and a number of them, by
beginning treatment in time,
have been cured. Near the city
hospital ground the Indianap i 5
Flower Mission, one of the most
active phifanthropic orsaniza-
tions OF women in that city, has
a hospital for incurable cases of
tuberculosis. The Madison Mis-
sion hospital has now nearly
thirty patients, with as many
more victims of the plague on the
waiting list. The Red Cross gave
$500 of last years stamp sales to
this hospital.
During the year the Red Cross
has also erected four cottages at
South Bend, and assistance has
been given the tuberculosis So
cieties at Evansville and Lafay-
cite Should the stamp sales this
year bring in sufficient revenue,
cottages to shelter white plague
victims will, it is understood,
be erected at Richmond, Fort
Wayne, New Albany, Frankfort
and Huntington. AS far as posi-
BILE the stamp money will be
spent against the white plague in
the communities where the
stamps are sold, or in some city
near at hand where the tubercu-
losis patient may be sent. In each
city where cottages have been
erected the Red Cross has paid
for the construction, while local
authorities pay for maintaining
them.
The plan which the Red Cross
contemplate in its Indiana war
fare against the plague, is the
colony system of cottages, and in
time as the fund warrants, it is
expected to have sufficient to
house every durable case of tu-
berculosiS in the state. By treat
ing the patients in these colonies
experience has shown that where
the victims are isolated in this
way there is far less danger of
contagion than when the patients
remain at home. In the colonies,
too, the Red Cross surrounds the
patients with hygienic comforts,
proper food and nursing to the
end that a patient may take a
cheerful view of his condition and
bend all his thoughts toward get
ting we'll. Every Christmas stamp
sold is bullet fired in the Red
Cross warfare against tubercu-
loSis.
The Red Cross is conducting
its fight against the whites plague
in connection with health au-
thorities and organizations over
the state Where colonies of cot
tages are built by the Red Cross
it is with the understanding that
the people of these cities will
maintain them, provide the pa
tients with proper food, nurses
and other attentions. Without
this kind of support the Red
Cross authorities think that
they would have the entire fnan-
cial burden and other RESPONSE
bilities to carry, while the fund
available make this impossible.
1t is the Hope of the Red Cross
that the people of Indiana will
buy 100000 of the Christmas
stamps this year, which would
give a Write plague fund of $780,
600. With this amount of money
available, a large number of the