Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-15
ASSOCIATION AIDS
IN FIGHT AGAINST
WHITE SCOURGE
Board OF Education Accepts
Help for the Open-air
School.

|losis Association held yesterday aft
ernoon the secretary reported that the
Board of Education had accepted the
proposition Of this association in pro-
viding sitting-out bags and meals for
the open-air school, which is to be es-
tablished by the Board OF Education
in Elizabeth avenue as soon as the
necessary alteration can be made. The
secretary also reported that lectures
have been given in factories and shops
at the noon hour during the past
month, and also that other lectures
have been given before mems clubs,
church organizations and the public
lecture course of the schools. The win
dow display exhibit has been in con-
slant use in the branch public library.
The Board of Health will soon have
their pictorial circular ready for dis
~tribution, and it is also planned by the
board to erect a shack for six or eight
patients out at Verona. The lodging
house ordinance. which was passed last
spring. has been partially enforced,
with the result that one house could
not comply with the law and was
forced to close. The Public Service
Corporation reported that the enforce
ment of the anti-spitting ordinance had
lessened the amount of expectoration
in street cars. 1t was also shown that
the doctors are reporting a few more
cases than they did formerly, thirty
six having been reported since the LIST
of JANUARY. DIR. A. Clark Hunt, of
the State Board of Health, is planning
to send out a circular to all doctors
In the State upon the necessity or
registration, in the near future. A visit
to many factories and shops disclosed
thai factory inspection was very poorly
done in many instances.
VIII Act as Host.
Al the meeting of State and local
anti-tuberculosis associations in the
Public Library next Thursday the as
~sociation has been asked to be the host
Of the occasion, and about forty pat
ronesses have responded to u letter of
invitation from President Franklin
Murphy. Mrs. w. Campbell Clark, as
sisted by eight or ten other ladies, will
give a tea after the afternoon meeting
and furnish some decorations for the
hall.
In regard to advice stations n a
clinic for the examination of patients
for Glen Gardner, as well as for Soho.
it was moved that we do all We can
to unite these agencies to make the
work more effective. It was suggested
that for the time being we try to ar
range with the Board of Health to meet
in the dispensary building.
In regard to Red Cross Christmas
seals, it was urged that everyone do
all they can to make this movement as
| successful as possible, as we must de-
pend upon funds derived from these
| seals to carry on our work. The q
of Education, the Board of Trade, some
women's clubs, many firms. banks and
| business houses have already consented
to use them.
During the month of October 106
| cases of tuberculosis were under our
supervision, % of which were new, and
1876 visits We're made by u nurse.
From January l to November l, IS
cases were reported to the Board of
Health by our physicians. 420 examina-
lions have been made at h dispens-
airy. 665 deaths occurred from tubercu-
losis and 545 deaths from pneumonia.
Pneumonia Is always a ~forerunner of
tuberculosis, inasmuch as 1t reduces the
vitality of the body.
The report on day camp, e by
| Chairman James S. Higbie, was as
follows:
1.-THE day camp was opened on May
8 and closed on October 81, a total Of
1871 days. The number of patients IN
rolled was as follows: May, 90; June,
%; July, 35; August, 80; September, 80;
| October, 81. The total number of
patient days was S,619, or an average
Of 90 patients per day. Three thousand
six hundred and nineteen dinners were
served, LAG breakfasts and LILO u p
pers, a total of 5000 meals, at an aver
age cost of 81 cents per meal.
1.-The total cost Of the camp will be
slightly over s2.70o, or rs cent per
patient per day, As, cents of which has
been for food. Inasmuch as all our
bills have NOT as yet come in it is
impossible to give an exact statement
Of these expenses.
Many show Improvement.
I'm all ffty-six patients have re-
ceived treatment at the day camp. OF
Ethe t~hirty-eight patients who were in
the camp long enough to he weighed .
second time the total gain in weight
was 264 pounds. One patient gained
seventeen pounds and another thirteen
pounds. Ten patients lost a total of
eleven pounds.
'There were eight children under 16,
seyen of whom gained flfty-four
| pounds. Ten of our patients have gone
to Verona or Glen Gardner n six
more have passed satisfactory ex-
aminations for admission. Inasmuch
as all patients were considered too far
advanced to enter Verona or Glen
| Gardner when they were admitted to
the camp this is certainly a very sat-
isfactory record. In addition five
patients have been able to return to
work"
DIR. Gluckman and DR.. Witt, visiting
physicians to the camp, report the fol-
lowing Of results; Number
of cases admitted, Sc; number who
stayed a few days, 10; of those whc
stayed one month or more, number ar
rested, Z, or 1874 per cent; number
improved, 81, or Ill per cent; number
unimproved, 4, or 1915 per cent.
A few of the patients sent a letter
of thanks to the committee of one