The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-11
Boards OF Health Ask the Free.
holders This Afternoon
to Build One.
ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN TO
BE WAGED FROM NOW on
Finance Committee Meets to
Devise Means for Providing
the "Sinews of War"

As part of the systematic and vigor-
Gus campaign started by the Committee
Of One Hundred against the white
plague, delegation Representing all the
boards of health~in Essex county. ex-
cept the Newark Board, this afternoon
petitioned the Board of Freeholders
in the Court House to build a county
sanitarium for the treatment of victims
of the dread disease.
A meeting of the finance committee of
the organization was also held late
this afternoon IN the office of the Fed
eral Trust Company to discuss plans for
financing the movement.
A systematic and vigorous campaign
against tuberculosis was outlined by
the educational committee in confer
ence yesterday at the office of the
chairman, Charles G. Ellsworth, in the
Prudential building. The plan includes
the following general methods of COM
batting and preventing the spread of
the disease.
Public lectures by experts detailing
the methods pursued in other COM
munities.
A series of street and stereopticon
exhibitions.
The publication of short essays ON
consumption.
The enlisting and education of labor
unions In the fight against the disease.
The placing of pIscnrds of instructions
In the public schools.
The construction of "a county sani-
tarium.
An elaborate plan OF financing the
movement.
To Arouse the Public.
The educational committee decided to
arouse such general interest in it's
work and to enlist the aid of so many
workers In every walk OF life that the
white plague could be scientifically
considered even by laymen. In other
words the plan embraces the thorough
instruction of the public in the results
of experiments and -researehas- of -scien-
lists and physicians up to the present
time. i
Eiehty-f1ve thousand persons will aid
the committee in the. labor organiza-
tions and public schools alone il the
plans adopted at yesterdays confer
ence do not miscarry. To this must be
added the army of children In the
paroclial schools.
The committee considered the names
of several experts in connection with
the first plan of the program. Many
favored calling upon DIR. Thomas
Darlington, health officer of New York,
pioneer in the fight against tubercu-
losis whose work throughout the coun-
try Is well known. Other names con-
sidered were those of DIR. Flick, of
Philadelphia; DR.. Herman T Biggs and
DR.. Edward c. Janeway, of New York
No decision was reached as to which
one of those considered would be in
vited TO lecture in this city
Mortality Decreasing.
Besides the chairman, those present
at the meeting were the Rev. Isaac P.
Whelan, rector of st. Patricks Cathe-
dral; DIR. Samuel r. Robertson former
president of the Board of Trade; Rabbi
Solomon Foster, Wilson j. Vance, Sec
retary to the mayor; Harrison Van
Duyne and G. Wisner Thorne. y
A well-known doctor who is promi-
nent in the fight, but who asked that
for professional reasons his name be
withheld, said yesterday:
THE figures of the different boards
of health throughout the State do not
tell all the tale of the number of VIC
Tins that are yearly claimed by tuber-
culosis. Most people are sensitive, and
ask the attending physician to report
the cause of death something other
than consumption, when a consump-
tive dies. And many doctors, in fact,
nine out of ten, wifi accede to this re-
quest of the members of the family,
and as a result hundreds of cases of
tuberculosis are never reported.
"I will state, however, that since
there has been such concerted fight
against the dread disease the mortality
has decreased In some places as much
as 20 per cent. and with g.. thorough
and vigorous campaign we may live to
see the day when cases Of consump-
ton will be as rare in this country as
leprosy."