Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-06-12

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 The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculo- sis is voluntary organization. It receives no subsidies from the gov ernment, either state or national. It's funds are received ill membership. dues and voluntary contributions. At t!.o head of the organization is one of the countrys foremost medical men, ! Dr. Edward G. Janeway. Dr. Wm. Osler and Thedore Roosevelt are vice
 presidents.
 In it's list of members may be found ! the names of some of the most wide ly known philanthropists Among them are Mrs. Russell Sage, Andrew Carnegie, Jacob Schiff, J. D. Rocke- feller and other public spirited citi zens. The association maintains two travelling exhibits. The enc brought to Pine Bluff is one whiah has been shCHn in all the larger western cit ies. It is a collection of photographs, charts, maps, diagrams, models and other materials by which the citizens may become acquainted readily with i the cause of consumption and me- thods of prevention.
 Prominent, for example, is d long i line of notices in large poster type. epitomizing the principal facts re- garding tuberculosis. They plead sor fresh air, for sunshine and the open window in the sleeping room, wintec and summer; they deprecate the spit ting habit and eXecrate the careless splitter, that individual who helps lo spread the disease more than any one thing. There are pictures, hundreds of them, showing how the individual having the disease is cared for by various state, county, municipal and charitable sanitoria; how the tuber- eular school child may be cared for without interfering with it's school attendance. There are interesting models of sleeping porches indicat- ing how the we'll may remain so and the sick get we'll by life out doors; there is striking object lesson in two bedrooms, one light, well yenti- lated, sunny and clean, the other dark, filthy bedding and general 'squalor. But there is a great deal too much in the exhibit to describe here. There is nothing obnoxious in the exhibit For those who may have conceived it to be a collection of diseased lungs, of preserved cadavers or other repugnant thing, it may be said these can visit the exhibit with out fear. If there is any object ap- preaching the melancholy or distress ing it is the flash light, the red glow of which, twice each minute, an- nounces death from tuberculosis in the civilized world. Two each min- ute It seems incredible.
 Arkansas has made a start in fight , ing tuberculosis. It has state san- atorium, not large enough, to be sure
 but beginning. It has a state as- sociation which will carry on con- tinuous campaign of education.
 A year ago it was estimated there were 40 consumptives for each avail able bed in hospitals and sanatoria in the United States. The state of New York, prominent in the exhibit, has recently announced that at the present rate of increase of provision for the consumptive there will not be an uncared-for patient in that state by 1915. Can every state fol- low that example? Could a greater monument be erected to the humanity, intelligence and progress of con- monwealth? The financial loss to any state from deaths due to tuberculosis is enormous. In New York in 1906 it
 was held to be not less than $7O,- GOO, ,0OO. Add to this the misery of prolonged illness, hopelessness, pov- erty engendered by inability to work and the spectacle is appalling.
 To urge an interest on the part of the people of Pine Bluff in this ex- hibit seems superfluous. It is to be hoped that such an interest, not pri- 1 marily in the exhibit, but what it may teach, already exists. There is nc admission charge; there is noth- ing sold or advertised. From first , to last it is philanthropic, education
 al, and it is hoped that every man,
 woman and child in the city will visit it, hear the talks and lectures by To- cal and out-of-town physicians, and others and talk about it to their friends, relatives and neighbors.
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