Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-05
BATTLE GRlMLY
AGAINST GERMS
WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS GOES
ON SUCCESSFULLY
NEW YORK TO WITNESS MANY
COUPS OF SCIENCE
Hapon9ion ~ 1Ono Naa& a.. j.. A;fI;a.
Campaign in 1903 Cost Over a Million
DoIIars-Many Dispensaries Es-
tabIished-Sanatoria Num-
Der Eighty

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-With the open
ing of the new year the campaign
against tuberculosis in the United
States exhibits the most remarkable
progress that any movement for social
betterment has ever rhown in this
country. During the past --ear the
amount of activity and the number Of
people who have been reached by this
activity has been far in excess of sim
liar work that has been carried on dur
ing the four years previous.
Measured by dollars the campaign
against tuberculosis in the United
States during the year 1908 has cost
we'll over a, million. Measured in the
number of workers the campaign has
enlisted hundreds of thousands in its
ranks. Measured by the number of in
situations and organizations that have
been established during the year 1908
more work of this sort has been ac-
complished than during the entire pc
Rod before January L of the year just
closing. For instance, before January
l, 1905, there were only 10 dispensaries
in the United States providing special
treatment for tuberculous cases. Up to
the year 1908 this number had increased
to slightly over 100. During the year
1908 alone over 100 dispensaries pro-
viding special treatment for tubercu-
1OUS pdllSllS nave D66n OpeueO.
The number of tuberculosis sanatOria
and hospitals opened in the year 1908
is more than 80, figure which is four
times that of the amount Of progress
shown in this line in any other year
before 1908. The number Of associa-
lions having for their object the study
or prevention of consumption eStab-
lished during the year 1908 totals up TO
120, which figure again is more than the
been established in the United States.
But not only in the number of insti-
tutiOns but also in the variety of peo-
pie interested and in the increase in
workers can the progress Of the anti
tuberculosis campaign be measured.
Never in any single year have so many
different organizations and so many
different ranks of people been stirred
to activity in a movement for the bet
terment of the condition of man as dur
ing the year 1908.
Labor Unions Aid Work
For instance, during the past year
from one end of the country to the
other the labor unions and working
men have been startled to a realization
of the fact that consumption is a dis
ease which affects them, and they have
been arming from east to west for the
in hand, the movement of the labor
unions has been the stimulus given tC
the clergymen and the churches
throughout the country. Never before
have so many sermons on tuberculosis
been preached from the pulpits of the
various churches of the country. The
schools, too, have been aroused both
through special institutions for the
treatment of tuberculosis children and
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children in the regular grades in the
schools. Hundreds of children have
been instructed on the dangers of tu-
berculOSiS. State legislatures, govern
ment officials, business concerns, fac
tory owners, social workers, men and
women of all sorts of classes have dur
ing this past year been aroused to re-
neWed interest in the campaign against
consumption.
Of the influences which have contrib
uted to produce this result probably
the most Weighty has been the inter
national congress on tuberculosis which
was held in Washington during the lat
ter part OF September and the first
part of October, attracting as it did
the attention of men and women in
every state in the Union. Representa-
tives were present from almost every
section Of the country, and the benefit
has doubtless given the greatest i'm
petus to activity in the fight against
consumption that this country has ever
experienced. The National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis by means Of it's constant prop
uganda and it's two travelling exhibits
has also helped to contribute to the
success of the campaign. Particularly
is this so in regard to the work being
carried on in the south. The Red Cross
stamp campaign with it's 100000 0C
stamps has been one of the greatest
mediums of education on tuberculosis
as we'll as a means of raising money
that has ever been used in this coun-
try.
The managers of the campaign
against tuberculosis are realizing that
they have hard fight ahead of them,
and every means that will bring home
to the ignorant the gospel of health is
being employed. 1t is safe to predict
that with the present rate of increase
in activity against tuberculosis main
tanned, the white plague will be ranked
in class with some of the least dan
gerous of the infectious diseases with
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