Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-20


He's happy when he does his best,
And brightest when he's busiest.
Arthur Macy, in Youths Companion
FIoHTIN GTUBERCuLosIs
Sundays papers give Illustrations and
descriptions of the war on what is called
the white plague-down here IN Georgia
That consumption, as 1t was called in my
early day, carries off its thousands every
year, is too well known TO provoke dis
pute but the organized movement 70
curb or destroy the germs which couse
tuberculosis in human beings is certain
ly a modern one, and the world seems to
have walked up all of sudden TO the
fell destroyer which has intrenched itself
among us. sg
Science will do wonders in keeping the
disease at bay, but ] am not satisfied
in my own mind that any well-developed
case of lung consumption was ever cured
entirely.
have seen it sweep through entire
families and even infect the colored per-
sons who waited on the sick and dying.
LAST year saw the disease carry Off a
prominent physician who seemed to be
in the best Of health as well as the
prime of life just year before. With
all his medical skill and foresight. he
could not save his own body from the
disease.
Sometimes there Is a slow march on
the citadels of human life. then again
a sure case of grippe will eventuate in
tuberculosis and carry off the sufferer
in a few short weeks. You hear of tu-
berculosis of the liver and of the bones.
and indeed 1T seems as il the indisuous
enemy can creep intin very many places
that were not suspected previously
1,1x u, her
state, whose story gave me serious con-
Germ and / am going TO take the liberty
to print part of 1t and if there is any
assistance or provision which can be
made for her if 1t Is written to me,
will also publish 1t. so that she and
others may receive the oenefit which
would mean so much to her.
Before copy her letter, ! will also
print here, what was said in New
York journal concerning the war on the
dreadful disease.
Fifteen million dollars was spent In
cure and study of prevention of tuber-
cuiosis in 1910, almost doubling the fig
ures for 1909. according to the annual re-
port of the National Association for the
Prevention OF Tuberculosis.
'Trhe largest item of expense was for
treatment in sanitariums, $11,S76,500, be-
ing expended for the purpose. The anti
Tuberculosis associations spent $760,500,
the tuberculosis dispensaries $685. 900, and
special municipal and state expenditures
in 1910, 81 per cent came from public
,ueds Ssuom eul 10 OO00sLIs psaeseIsse
appropriations.
Mrs. w. II, Feltor:
Kind Friend: / know you are good
and kind. / have never met you but have
read your letters for years. I read one
a. - -, ,f,1,f xrCra
said Don't wait until after one is dead
to say kind things about them" So I
will tell you your letters have been help
full to me and l enjoy reading them all
the time.
read your letter last night, New
Years Now and in 1864-65." My expe-
rience now is something like yours that
new year night in Confederate times.
We live in a lonely farm house and my
husband is away in Texas sick of tu-
berculosis. 1 have three little children,
Z, and years old that are my COM
panions and 1 am small and not very
stout He is not doing so we'll now
received the news the first mail after
New Y ears. All the good wishes seemed
so out bf place to me in my sorrow.
Why is 1t that the doctors will not tell
their patients until it's too late? They
say there is nothing the matter with
your lungs Then they send them away
after it is too late and they have got
all their fee money. ! saw in the same
paper containing your letter how much
had been spent for the cure and actual
prevention of tuberculosis. DO you know
of any place where it can be cured? I
fear / will have it too. 1 will just cut
out the piece and send 1t to you 1
am such a sorry writer. Do write If
you know anything about it, please do,
tell me. If you know any one that does
know about it please tell me who 1t Is
and where to write to. We were so
happy. We had bought us little home
and made one payment on it and now
this awful news of all bad news-con-
SUMPTION The dostor is to blame a
whole lot about it. They won't or don't
tell them in time.
/ am stranger to you, but I feel
like / know you, and I know you want
to do all the good you can. If it Is ont
out of your line Of work I think let
ter from you to the paper on this subject
will do good The doctors don't tell
them and yet rob them. You might say
with no mercy, anyway you might turn,
If YOU think this is rot right for me
to say to you, just remember I am in
som UGH trouble and do not know which
way to turn to get relief
MRS. w. S.
Gadsden, Ala, r. F. d. 2. Jan. Z.