The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-25

stence is due to the efforts of the
Woman's League of New Orleans, who
three years ago passed resolution that
the fight against consumption should be
their work for the winter Ready en-
enlargement came from Miss Sophie
B. Wright, Miss Olga Nethersole, Miss
McMain, Bishop Sessuns, Rabbi Heller
DR.. Craighead, Archbishop B1enk ant
DR.. Bachelor Mrs. Sylvester makes
an earnest plea, based upon sound COM
mon sense and sympathy, for the estab-
lishment of State tuberculosis hospital
which is uoted as follows:
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
tells us there are one million woman
soldiers in this war today, ard that
twenty thousand churches have agreed
to have FIVE minue talks from their pull
pits once month on tuberculosis. In
the words of the president of the Louis
lana Anti-tuberculosis League, this
"call is to every one that heareth with
out reference to creed" They are re-
spending The league wants branches
ali over the State We have sixteen
we ought to have sixty The nlainten-
ance of the ST Tamrnany camp for cur
able eases and free clinic in New Or
leans are among the purposes of this
band of workers, but these are only two
steps in the weary march ahead of us
We still have no hospital where all
stages of the disease can be received,
separated and cared for.
We all know too we'll the failure of
that carefully prepared memorial to the
last General Assembly, urging that the
State establish four sanataria, or one
for each congressional district. There
were no available funds, and the indi-
gent consumptive is still abroad in the
land, a menace through his ignorance
and his poverty
I'VE may hold it truth with him who"
sings the praise OF a higher altitude and
a drier climate, but it has been proven
that this disease. can be cured in this
latitude, and whether this were true or
not, were the patent rich or poor the
time is fast approaching when he must
take his chances at home, because other
States are iegislating against the in
coming of consumptives Already in
some parts of Texas the entrance of
even suspected cases is effected by about
as complex system of manouvers as is
necessary to enter "a heather temple
And right here may say that / have
seen nothing more pathetic than the
late removals of some hopeful patients
from comfortable homes for death in
railway coach as it climbs some Caro-
lima hill or skirts western plain.
Another reason for the need of al
State hospital is that maximum. of
good is done at a minimum Of expense.
Compare, for example. the cost of
sending a patient away with what is ac-
tualiy done at the st. Tamnlany home
one a day Is maintained at cost of
something like twenty-one cents.
The Rapides branch, which the Moth
er Colony has pleased to call the ban
ner branch has about depleted her
treasury sending patients away, but
there seemed nothing else to do in the
present emergency. St Tammany's ca
pacity is limited, and where, as in al
case recently brought before our relief
committee, investigation shows a fight
ing chance for recovery, we have sent
the sufferer off with new hope in his
heart.
Am my brothers keeper has
come to be very pertinent query to
each one of us who has thought along
these lines, and the best way to keep him
is occupying our attention. We all agree
that the State is his natural custodian.
She takes care of her insane and her
and she should care for these
helpless creatures.
The sopen sesame" which will un-
loose the prison-door of this problem is
cooperation.
During the session of the State
Teachers Association in this conventionI
city in April the publicity and distribu-
ton committee of the Rapides branch
handed out these pamphlets to fifteen
hundred teachers The seed has not
fallen upon stony ground These
educators will spread the gospel of
healing to those in whom is our hope
for the future
We can not change the old peoples
ideas. 1t is well nigh inn
possible 10 teach an old dog new
tricks" but we can mold public opinion
through this generation, and we do en-
terrain the hope that consumption will
be confined to it only and that it will
not appear in the mex.
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