Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-02
The Leavening Power of ST, 600, 900.

The need for more accommodations
for tuberculosis patients IN the
United States is so great that mil
| lion dollars spent in the actual con-
struction and equipment of institu-
| tions continues very small fraction
of the total outlay required. Last
year over eight million dollars was
expended, with hardly start in the
work, and this year provision for
treatment is being multiplied much
more rapidly.
With the recognition of the fact
that 1t is utterly beyond the ability
of private philanthropy to care for
needed cases and the subsequent
shouldering of the burden upon states,
counties and municipalities, where it
properly belongs, the field for organic
ed private initiative becomes con-
siderable cleared. The problem is to
induce the proper authorities to make
the necessary appropriations for more
hos pitfalls and sanatoriums.
In this great work the carefully
! planned campaign for the sale of Red
Cross Christmas Seals gives oppor-
tunity for everybody, even Of the
most limited means, to participate.
| For the Christmas Seal campaign is
essentially campaign of agitation
| for the establishment Of more public
institutions for the cure of tuber-
culosis, in which everyone may take
part by the payment of one cent. 1t
is intended that much Of the income
from the sales will be used in educa
tional work to induce public APP
preparations What this may be ex
pected to accomplish is indicated in a
bulletin issued by the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Proven
i tion OF Tuberculosis.
Counting every available bed for
tuberculosis in the United States.
even those in almshouses. penal in
stitutions. and hospitals for the in
sane, there are at the present time &C
commodations for hardly 30, 600 tuber-
culoss patients. This is just about
one bed for every ten INDECENT con-
sumptives, and if all tuberculous
persons in the country are counted,
both rich and poor, hardly one for
every twenty five or thirty. If suffi
cient hospital accommodations are
provided only for those who are too
poor to pay the full price for their
treatment, fully 273, 900 more beds in
special institutions for tuberculosis
would be needed at once The i'm
mense outlay necessary to- provide
and MAINTAIN SO many beds in hospl
tails ma kes it imperative that such in
situations be erected from public
money, either municipal, county or
state. In order to get appropriations
for public hospitals for tuberculosis,
agitation is necessary, and in order TO
create campaign of agitation organic
alton is demanded But in order that
an organization may carry on an
effective campaign. funds are needed.
These funds it is proposed to secure
in as many communities as possible
from the sale of Red Cross Seals.
Zone illustration of the way in
which small sum spent in education
has secured large appropriations is
found IN the work OF the New York
State Charities Aid Association in the
three years, 1908, 1909 aud 1910
About 80, 900 has been spent in the up
state portion of New York in arousing
culosis. AS a direct result of tbs
public sentiment produced by this
outlay, the state, county and muni-
cipal authorities have already APP
propriated for tuberculosis work 81. :
500, 600 and appropriations for hundred
of thousands Of dollars are pending
Hundreds of hospital beds have been
provided. and the Association arleady
aims for No uncared for tuberculosis
in 1916.
that is a ratio of about one dollar
| la AtdUAOAR " ~SOFOn OO14d
in results and is an indication of the
efficiency which careful organization
has insured in New York State 1t
is perhaps too much to expect a mil
| lion dollars from the sale of Red
Cross Christmas Sales TO result in
quite so large an increase in local
| prOvisiOn Some of the funds from
the Seals will be used in the actual
construction of hospitals and sanatori-
ums themselves. However. it is in
tended that the greater portion shall
be used in agitation and accordingly
this Christmas campaign will place
us much nearer the goal of no un-
cared for tuberculosis in the entire
country.
A little careful preparation for the
sal9 of the Seals should swell the re-