New-York tribune., 1909-01-05
$4,000 STILL NEEDED
SO 900 Contributed for Tuberculosis
Erbibit-Nmses Confer.

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en' =. - .ta Nfu.aur Of Natural History. said
Yesterday that only $4,000 had been raiseu % e
SIS COO for which call was mace oy 'h0
of the exhibit some days ago.
syye need $4,000 now.' he said. Ito keep tne GA
80. 80 ss Intended Several rich men were ap-
realed IN but we haven't got enough to cohtih"e
the exhibit much longer As long as the ''O''''
lasts 1T will be OPEN" -
Yesterday afternoon and evening the huf'0'
. eorference In the auditorium hall OF the HiuScu'
Miss Annie Danner. president of the NURSES 90.
c,ated AIuuns presiding Miss Damer salu 'i1, ~
as nurses had good deal 10 do with the trsA'i,e"1
of tuberculosis, they thought 1t "ou'a DC w"
get together and have a discussion ABOUT IT.
Miss Jessie A. Allen, of the Presbyterian hospi-
al vroka strongly in favor of the compulsory re-
moval of tuberculosis patients from their homes m
some -,
'nTbe first need of course" she said, "is TO nave
a. place to put them, and IL must be paCe "h0
they won't feel that they are shut away from 80
ing those whom they love. 1t isn't easy sehel-";'
to persuade a patient leave home; We are Ueai
ing with ignorance and sentiment
LET me tell you of one in my knowledge
Father, mother and six children lived ih q ~ ua,ip
dark basement The father and three chloreh
a,ed of tubereuosis-in the basement NOW Ihe
mother has sickened Of the same disease ana she
and the three remaining children sun i've III ti1'
basement. That is Of the instances IN Wnici, II
compulsory removal should have been resorted 10.
anv but an audience of nurses open their eyes, OF
the way consumptives living and working ana
spreading their germs everywhere
.'They are cooks in restaurants" she said Ihey
sra putting bands on cigars. They are making
candy They take books from the public libraries
and return them. germ laden. for some one else 10
take out. One day suffering win tuoercu-
losis came to the out-patient department. OF 'ne
Presbyterian Hospital. He was then employed as
a cook in restaurant When the nurse went 10
,-feTf1 III xf daV
Another man. working waiter in a restaurant
came for treatment. In day or two a nurse VS.
tied his home. He, too, was dead Inc boaro OF
Health should have power to controI the iactoI'
that are disseminating this disease 1t should oe
In close communication with the clinics. and should
have power to act =,
1.-THE underworld the sweatshops. the hard condi-
tons and the rich landlords are doing their pest 10
make tuberculosis patients out of the country-oreu
foreigners who come TO our shores sald MISS
Cenevieve wilson Of Bellevue Hospital Every
visiting nurse has it borne in upon her that the
tenement Is the danger point a man Iands at
Ellis Island with little money and no English he
goes to work IN a sweatshop or in one OF the great
underground constructive operations Of New YORK
He gets no air light while he works, ana az
night ne sleeps in a dark room, IN a little place
crowded with his family and several boarders
taken TO increase the income. What Wohuef t"d'
he gets tuberculosis
| Miss Wilson thought that the Only hope lay IN
! caring for and educating the children She gave
pretty picture of the children's clinic estabhsheu
at Bellevue IN 1907, to examine and treat the chill
dren of consumptives-a clinic shorn of its terrors
for the little ones by gifts and kindly words from
| the doctors and nurses. The consumptlve childreh
cared for on the old ferryboat which BeIeVue mas
| turned into day camp. she says. show 100 per
cent OF improved cases.
Miss Suzanne Robbins who had charge OF the
first day camp for consumptves established in this
/ ccuntry-one in Boston-impressed on her hearers
that it wasn't necessary to wait for money 70 start
| camp 1--WE started without any,, she said Ihe
| next day a woman gave $500. and we got along.
she described the joy of the patients at being able
to come 10 a place near their homes so they could
| cas- their friends mo one knows she said,
| ..vhat patents suffer from Inconsistencies in .sani-
| toria away from those they love-
| There are sixty-seven day camps for consump-
tives in Germany she said. and only fifteen in this
| country.
| DR.. John J. Cronn. of the Department Of Health.
| gave a talk on 1.-The Control of tuberculosis
| Through the School Children" Miss Ward of the
| Metropolitan Hospital, discussed the Hospital
| Care of tuberculosis Patients"