The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-05-18
RICH AND POOR
United Against Consumption-One Mil
lion Women in White Plague War.
Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis League.

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Louisiana Anti tuberculosis League
One million women, representing cit
les, towns, villages and isolated rura
settlements in every section of tht
country, are today enlisted in a cam
paign against tuberculosis. according te
statement issued by the National AS
sociation for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis. In legislatures, in the
Congress at Washington, in society
gatherings, in churches and clubs
through speaking and writing-in every
possible way, the women of the country
are persistently fighting consumption.
With an organization established in
every State of the country, under the
direction of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, and with associated
clubs in Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands,
Porto Rico and the Canal Zone, the
women of the country have entered a
systematic crusade to carry the message
of the prevention and cure of tubercu-
losis into every American home.
The organization of the wonen's anti
tuberculosis campaign was definitely be-
gun in St Paul in 1906. at the time of
the biennial meeting of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, when
that body sanctioned a resolution ito
make the prevention and cure of tuber-
.culosis subject of study and made
Mrs. Rufus p. Williams of Cambridge,
Massachusetts,, chairman of the new de-
partment, called the health department
of the General Federation Of Women 5
Clubs For the purpose of extending
tile campaign into the many cities and
towns of the country, the central COM
mittee makes every local and State club
under its jurisdiction responsible for
the work in its own community
The executive board of the Mothers
Congress has also recently entered into
the crusade, and has prepared circulars
and literature on the prevention of con-
sumption, which are being circulated
broadcast throughout the country In
every city where the congress is repre-
sented, an advisory board Of local ply
siciaps is being formed to help educate
mothers about tuberculosis. Other ma
tional organizations Of women have
given favorable consideration to the
campaign against tuberculosis.
One of the most notable campaigns
which is being carried ON by the women
is that in the Southern States in con-
nection with the travelling exhibit of the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis In Ten
nessee, Florida and Alabama, whole
States have been stirred by the activity
of the women's organizations In North
Carolina and South Carolina plans for
similar campaigns are now in progress
A large number of women occupying
prominent positions in society or on
the stage are. taking an active interest
iii the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Mrs
w. <. Vanderbilt has recently given a
million dollars for sanitary homes for
consumptiyes Mrs Keith Spalding of
Chicago has erected sanatorium for
the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute at a
cost of about fifty thousand dollars.
Mrs Coils P. Huntington and Mrs.
Borden Hartman have given largely to
the consumption fight. In Porto Rico
Mrs. Albert Norton Wood, wife of a
prominent army officer stationed at San
Juan, has stirred the entire island
through the. anti-tuberculosis crusade
she inaugurated. Nine Emma Calve is
most enthusiastic worker, and has
given largely of her talent and money
for the relief of tuberculosis sufferers,
and Miss Olga Nethersole has even lee
tured before the public ON tuberculosis.
And the fight is not only being carried
on by women organized in clubs and by
the wealthy women, but by the working
women in the general labor movement
against. tuberculosis, and by the women
who are battling hand in hand with the
disease in connection with the religious
and philanthropic organizations of the
country The special tuberculosis nurse
too is a recent addition 10 the fighting
force enlisted against consumption, and
almost all Of these are women. No
city campaign is complete today without
such nurse, and on this account hum
dreds Of them are devoting their: lives
IN unselhsh service for the relief of hui
man suffering
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