The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-12
BIC SHOW READY.
State tuberculosis Exhibit Is
Prepared.
Many New Features Added by
DR.. Crumbine.
TOWNS.
Sanitary Inspections to Be Made
Along the Trip.
Itinerary of First State Ex-
hibitiOn Made Out.
TOWNS.

! The itinerary of the new department
of the state board of health-the Kao-
sas tuberculosis exhibit-has been pre-
pared by Secretary Crumbine and will
include most of the more important
towns of the northeastern part of the
state. 1t is TO be one of the greatest
exhibits of the kind that has ever been
made and will end toward informing
the people of this state of the cure and
prevention of that great white plague
consumption. The exhibit will also in
clude other disease information
This exhibit as prepared by Dr.
Crumbine after a careful preparation
of many months will include some feat
ures which have ------ been attempted
before in the history of the world wide
campaign against tuberculosis. Inc
state legislature appropriated $4,000 for
the use of the state board of health IN
this manner and the money Will be
spent in the best possible manner for
the benefit of the people.
The exhibit will be composed of pho
tographs. notices. psychological and
pathological specimens of all kinds,
examples of good and bad sleeping
rooms literature for free distribution,
tents, window sleeping bags and illus
trations and charts of all kinds for the
eyes of the reading public.
DR.. S. c. Smiley of the State uni
sity will act as lecturer and field man
ager. Miss Neiswanger, for many years
q trained nurse of experience, will act
as visiting nurse and Mr.! Warrel.
Crumbine, son of the secretary of the
board of health, a young man who has
been practically raised under the ex-
acting methods of his father, will act
as advertising agent and general assls-
tant. This staff will conduct the visits
from town to town under the general
orders of DR. Crumbine.
One of the big features of the state
~ - y TCs ~
wide field it will cover and the many
sanitary suggestions it viii offer. AS a
general rule the long line of exhibits
include the literature, lectures and
photographs only. This is for the good
of the public who do not have tn:
diseases and who are able to attend the
exhibition. But DR.. Crumbine has
planned for this Kansas exhibit the
position of a trained nurse who will
after the knowledge and consent of the
attending physician. visit the afflicted
who are not able to attend the exhibits.
This nurse will make many suggestions
to the family, see that the patient Is
kept under strict sanitary methods,
and do all in her power to better the
condition of the unfortunates. Miss
Neiswanger is in Topeka at the present
time visiting the unsanitary parts OF
the city and studying the actual living
methods of the poor and sick.
Report on Local Conditions.
The staff of the state exhibition will
also make a careful observation of the
towns they visit and report what they
have seen to the local officers and the
state board of health. The hotels, the
slums. the factories and all will be
visited and it is expected that the
whole state can be cleaned up in this
manner. These two ideas are strictly
original in the Kansas exhibit and are
a great improvement over the other ex-
hibits over the country.
One of the important features of this
Kansas show will be the large number
of painted poster notices which have
been written by DR.. Crumbine. These
notices are now being framed in the
office at the state house and they will
De used as a big part of the exhibit.
Two bedrooms-one sanitary and the
other supposedly unsanitary-wiu be
built of these notices and the rooms
and halls of the place of exhibit will be
covered with them. They arc all short