Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-24

Segregation of tubercular pupils i'm the
public schools of the District of Column
bia in a separate schoolroom or building,
where danger of infection will be reduced
to a minimum:
Lectures on tuberculosis in all schools
of the District, including night as we'll
as day courses;
Segregation of advanced cases of tuber-
culosis, or better preventive conditions
in the homes of such patients:
Greater provision for special treatment
of special tubercular cases;
A more extensive educational campaign
among all classes, including the dstribu-
tion of literature and courses of public
lectures, than has yet been attempted.
Immediate accomplishment Of these
aims will command the devoted energies
of the Washington Association for the
Prevention of tuberculosis.
This future work will be in accord with
recommendations to this effect embodied
in the reports of several committee chair
men, the chief of which was that read
by DIR. f. FremOnt-Smith, chairman of
the committee of education, as presented
meeting last night in the auditorium of
George Washington University building,
10TH and II streets.
Progress of Crusade.
These committee reports indicated by
stages the advance of the fight in WASH
ington against consumption since the or
ganization first began its work and
mapped out the line of future work
which, if effectively followed, according
to the officials of the association, will de-
,hc,fo io1 11y hn nj
consumptives and place it's ravages under
better control.
Other reports showed that nearly 1000
patients had been treated in the associa-
over $50 tuberculosis patients were visited
by the associations nurses, tuberculosis
class had been maintained at a cost of a
little over $1,000 and $50 lectures were
delivered both in schools and to the public
In general, attended by at least 1900 per-
sons These figures, it was declared, in
dictated q praiseworthy progress for the
association in it's first year of active work.
The Washington association is following
to the smallest details the general course
adopted by the National Association for
the Suppression of the White Plague This
was set forth in the address by DR.. Liv-
ingston Farrand. secretary Of the ma
tional association, on the progress Of the
anti-tuberculosis movement in this coun-
try.
The annual report Of the president, Gen.
George NJ Sternberg. and reports from
committee chairmen were read. The meet
ing closed with the election Of ten d.
rectors to serve for three years and two
others to take the place of those who have
either died or left the city.
Directors elected to serve for the next
three years are Emile Berliner, Miss Ma
bel T. Boardman, DIR. F. Fremont-Smith,
DR.. William G. Gwynn, DR.. d. P. Hick-
ling, Dr. j. d. Morgan. DIR. G. w. Rich
ardson, DR.. Charles d. Walcott, Miss Isa-
bel T.. Strong and A. T. Stuart. DR.. G..
l.. Magruder and DR.. w. c. Woodward
of the late DR.. M. j. Rosenau and John
Sherman.
DIR. Farrand's Address.
Dr. Farrand referred to the enormous
resporA Utilities which lay on the people
of America in their fight against tuber-
| cuosis. He declared the danger Of the
| disease was apparently not realized by
the masses until a comparatively recent
date-four years agO-when people in all
walks of life seemed to feel that the bur-
| den must be lifted. and have since come
| to the support of the movement in a
commendable manner.
THE people of the country now APP
preciate what tuberculosis is and MEANS -
declared DR.. Farrand. "They realize they
| have responsibility to bear and an OBJ
| legation to pay to suffering fellow-man
u
| bearing and fulfilling in manner which
only Americans can when they are
brought face to face with necessity.
1.-The responsibility is truly appalling
when one analyses the statistics of the
ravages Of the disease. We estimate that
among the 100000 school children of
| the country there are, at conservative
estimate, 100000 who are suffering from
| tuberculosis and who will die before they
are eighteen years of age. Alone in
Boston there are 5000 tubercular school
children. and $4,000 in New York city.
"Of the 100000 school children, we
estimate there are but ., SOC. 600 who have
| been regularly lectured to on the sub
might say, are capable of taking care
of themselves with assurances of not
| being infected.
| When you appreciate that between 81,
100000 and SS.OOOO0O a year are being
expended in effort to control tuberculosis
| In this country. and also the fact that
10000 children will die from the disease
in the next ten years, 1t is plain that it
nation.
Washington Adheres to Plan.
| II am glad to see here in Washington
that the association is following out close
ly the general plan inaugurated by the
national association for the control of
the disease. You have intelligently
grasped the only sensible methods or
| fighting for control. trust you may con-
| tinue along the same lines.
| 1T Is positively necessary to segregate
| or better control patients in the advanced
| stages Of the disease. as well as to effect
a cure of the curables. In fact. the
former is more important, because of the
malignity Of the ailment
| Your educational campaigns and dis
pensary work are to be heartily COM
mended, and 1 trust that other cities may
see the advantages, especially of the
former. and follow it out more closely
than they have in the past.
/ There is still greater work to be done
! particularly i'm the cases of the advanced
| stages. There is a crying need In this
respect which you can judge from the
following statistics.
There are 10000 beds in hospitals and
sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients ir
the country for an estimated number OF
forty cases for each bed. OF these 2OOO(
beds, but 5000 may be- called beds fol
IT, advanced stages. The estimated mum
Der of cases in the advanced stages of the
disease is $4,000. and this is a very con
sentative figure. 1t is hardly necessary
for me to comment further on needs"
DIR. Ferrand gave a short history of the
anti-tubercuiosis movement in America
which he said assumed q definite form