Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-07-02
FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS
Former Great Bend Boy to Have
Charge of the Campaign

among the people OF Kansas II
regard to tuberculosis and 9th
er dangerous diseases, for which
the last Legislature appropriated
$4,000 a year for the next two
years, will begin August 1. Tit
work will be carried on under tht
supervision of the State BoarC
of Health and will be undar the
direct charge of DR.. S. C. EN-
ley Of the medical faculty. Of
the University of Kansas. DR.
Emley has been granted a two
years leave of absence by the
regents of the university and wall
spend the time touring the state
and lecturing on the prevention
of tuberculosis and other infec.
tiOuS diseases and the care of pa
tients.
An educational exhibit will ac-
company the lecturer and will be
thrown open to the public in ev-
cry town in which he stops. DR..
Crlmbine and DR.. Emley have
been busy for the past two
months, getting this exhibit to-
gether, which when completed
will cost in the neighborhOod Of
$4,000. These will include a
model sleeping room and a model
dairy, together with an expensive
stereOpican for throwing picture.
on screen as the lecturer talks
Charts showing the spread and
prevalence of disease in the diff
ferent counties and all sorts Of
educational pamphlets will b,
distributed among the public al
every stopping place.
! The funds for the new move
|, ment are available on July /
About all of the month of Jul,
will be taken up with puttin]
the exhibit into shape to tax
the road. 1t will be thrown op
en- to the public for the firs
time In LeavenwOrth on August
In the larger towns of the stat
the exhibit will be shown for
week or ten days bu tin smalle
places it will stop only one day
, ANY town In the State may sc
cure the Lectures and exhibit b.
applying to the State Board o
, Health. After the Leavenwort
engagement has ben filled tn
exhibit will be taken TO Atchlr
son and Hiawatha and othe
towns in the northeastern par
OF the State.
The problems of disease vii
0e treated from two standpoints
that Of municipal sanitation il
an economic way and the inter
eSts of the individual in mtter
OF personal hygiene. No treat
ment will be given by the lecture
at any time, but all the assist
ance possible will be given t.
physicians who are battling will
Glsease In every community.
One interesting feature of thu
exhibit will be lantern slide.
showing pictures of Kansas town.
model and otherwise. The town,
which are kept the cleanest OF
any in the State will be honored
by being shown in pictures and
commented upon by the lecturer
Towns which are full of dirty al.
leyS and allow other unsanitary
conditions to flourish will be
Shown up" on the screen in all
their qglineSS. It will be the eff,
fort of the movement to make
cleanliness and good sanitation q
matter Of town pride and to
spread the good regulations of
those in which such things are
looked after.
'This new movement simply
means that the State is going to
begin spending money in look
ing after the health of its citi-
zens, just what it has been doing
for its live stock for the last
ten years." said DR.. Emley.
There is no reason why the
great and noteworthy success
which Mr.. F. D. Coburn has had
In checking and preventing cpl
denies among the live stock of
Kansas shOould not be realized in
the tight to protect the health of
the citizens of the State, in edu-
eating them in the best methods
of nnrvanf1on ubsob No