The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-07
STATE RED Cross
SOCIETY IS SOON
START GOOD MOVE
Although the Funds of the Or
ganization Are Limited, It
lntents to Wage Tubercu-
Iosis Campaign.
OPEN AIR TREATMENT
HOUSE LOCATED HERE
The Society Also Plans to
Place Similar Institutions in
The Various Other Cities Of
The State.
Especial Correspondent

against tuberculosis in Indiana has
been started by the Indiana branch
Of the Red Cross. and although the
funds OF the Red Cross are limited it
is the purpose to erect open air treat
ment houses for tubercular victims in
many of the Indiana cities. and thus
start effective movements for the To-
cal treatment of poor consumptives.
It took the lead in the erection. OF
the new Indianapolis tuberculosis
colony houses that. located at the
rear Of the city hospital and indirect
~ connected with it. have been open
ed. DIR. F. A. Tucker, former presi-
dent of the state board of health. who
is also connected with the Red Cross
campaign, will go to Terre Haute and
Evansville this week to make exam
nations Of the conditions there.
One For Richmond.
Already it has been decided to
build open.air treatment houses at
South Bend. Fort Wayne. Richmond
and other cities are to be taken up
also at once. ......-.
1.-THE funds OF the Indiana Red
Cross are not sufficient" said Treas
urer j. W. Lilly. ito do what the or
ganization would like to do-estab.
lish. equip and maintain open-air col
onies for the treatment and care Of
those tubercular victims that can not
afford to 60 to 4 pay institution or
even leave their work in the cities.
But It can. we believe. start in each
city a movement for the cure of these
people. In cities such as Indianapolis
where we found the city. through its
tuberculosis clinic and city hospital,
ready to assume the maintenance and
management. we will be able to start
the work Of erecting suitable build
ings and to furnish equipment.
First Four Buildings.
Here we erected the first four
| buildings and thus awakened other
organizations to the necessity of TAX
ling steps against the white plague.
incidentally we showed them how in
Expensive was the necessary equip
ment. We have been able also to con-
tribute to the sanitary features of the
colony here by paying a very large
part of the plumbing bill for the en-.
tire colony and administrative build.
ling. Likewise has the organization
contributed to the equipment of the
colony as a whole in such ways as
providing for electric lighting and
electric call bells.
When our buildings were put up
other organizations were inspired to
build cottage or two and the result
is that the Indianapolis colony opens
with nine cottages. a general admin
istration building and the prospects
OF fifteen or twenty more cottages be
ing erected by fraternities, labor un-
ions. churches and other organiza-
tons.
This is the line that we propose to
pursue in other Indiana cities. In
South Bend. where we have decided
to build cottages. there il m organic
ed anti-tuberculosis society that will
take over the management and main.
tenance Of the colony. We hope to
find similar organizations, or the cit
les themselves, ready to assume this
obligation at Terre Haute. Evansville,
Fl. Wayne and in other cities.
j Ravaoes Of TubercuIosis.
II while the ravages of plague and
the distress and loss of life caused by
Earthquake. flood or war more graph
cally appeal to the people of the
world for help for the poor victims,
there are thousands dropping all
around us with disease as terrible
as cholera. They are chained by the
necessities of life to their places of
meet the demands Of the work. and
then are left on public charity to die.
This is the story of the poor consump-
tive in our cities. who could be heal
ed If taken in time. The cost is
small. Fresh air. prescribed diet
and restricted habits are the cure.
BY inspiring the erection Of fresh
air treatment colonies in Indiana
cities We hope to do as great a work
as the Red Cross can do in time OF
famine or distress The desire is to
make 1t possible for workers who see
consumption coming on to continue in
their work. and at the same time-in
the hours. that they are not at their
places of workable the treatment
that win result In them curing them.
selves and stopping the inoculation Of
others. Likewise do we hope thus t.
save those unable to pay for treat
ment at private institution
i + A. HudsOa. of Weddington, wal
here Saturday and sold to Messrs
Stack Z Hudson sixty bales OF cotton
Tor his neighb0os, the Misses Ross
These ladies make in the nefghbor
hood Of one hundred bales each yea,
on their lands in that section. and Nj
Hudson carried them : check for /
clear $4,000