The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-20
TELL OF TERRORS
Of WHITE PLAGUE
New Note Sounded in Crusade
to Stamp Out the Dread
Disease.

opJect leSSons III tne u lne
Newark Anti tuberculosis Association
against the white Plague" were given
on the public Fairgrounds at Waverly
avenue and Prince street last night
The Fairgrounds are in the most con-
gested district in the city. More than
5000 persons. fully 1000 of whom were
boys and girls. were on the grounds, the
sidewalks and corners In Prince street
n Waverly avenue, at windows and
on roofs of houses. They enjoyed. to the
ing moving pictures. Scores of moth
ers, with their babies, were in the
thrcng.
DR.. Oscar A. Mockridge gave q brief
talk on Personal Hygiene" by request
of Ernest D.. Easton, executive secre,
tary of the Anti-Tuberculosis Associa.
ton. William j. McKiernan, super
visor oil the Fairgrounds, assisted Sec
rotary Easton. He kept the masses OF
children quiet during the speaking In
the open-air. A big electric arc lamp
illuminated the scene
DIR. Mockridge spoke from the rear
porch of the Hood Recreation Centre.
He said:
Consumption is not only durable but
can be prevented if people will live up
to simple rules. I want to impress
upo o all the Importance of personal
cleanliness and of keeping the children
clean. Keep the windows of sleeping
rooms open all night, Go out doors for
fresh air for at least an hour in the
day and the evening. Get all the sun
light and fresh air possible in your liv-
ing rooms, Eat regularly three meals. a
day. Don't eat between meals.
Avoid anything there is alcohol in,
Keep cool In bed. Wear clothing suit
able to the weather when you go out,
Remove heavy clothing when in the
house. Keep floors well scrubbed,
Don't spit on sidewalks nor in youi
rooms. Spit In a handkerchief or some
Old utens1l. Take a bath daily. Wipe
babies dry with a rough towel.
Medical inspection in our public
schools is a grand thing. When your
boy or girl brings home a note from the
teacher. don't lay it aside or destroy
it. If she writes that the child is not
We'll. see a doctor at once. Teach the
children these simple rules of living,
for 1t is upon them the workers against
tuberculosis depend to greatly abate or
eradicate tuberculosis in the future. L,
is a difficult work, and it will talk
many years to make a big success
Henry Robrecht, of the Model Amuse-
ment Company. who gave the exhibl-
tion of moving pictures free Of charge,
threw short sentences of advice how to
live to avoid tuberculosis on the screen
Tho ,niDtttroc Slaouua1 xrar,raxrdo 49,
ments. OF scenes In tuberculosis hos
pitfalls, n of the lungs, healthy and
diseased. There were views of the New
ark tuberculosis Hospital in Verona,
exterior and interior; of patients in
tents, on balconies and roofs, and oil
clean and neat homes. Scenes in tn
congested districts of New York city
caused Supervisor McKiernan to say to
DR.. Mockridge:
Maybe you think we nave not such
districts in Newark"
81 know we have,' said the doctor,
"for I have attended patients in many
dirty and miserable rooms In tene-
ment and Easements"
There was not a city policeman o
the Fairgrounds last night. Chief OF
Police George Bostovsky, IA years old,
of the Fairgrounds, had so boy police to
help keep order in the great crowd OF
children. Mr.. Robrecht told Secretary
Easton Re will permit lecturers for the
Anti-TUberculosis Association to give
matinee talks between the acts this fall
end winter on tuberculosis at all the
moving picture places he Is interested
in.