The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
They Will Indicate You Have
Helped in Worthy Cause.
War on Tuberculosis Requires
Real Money.
READY ON SATURDAY.
Pretty Girls Will Have the Tags
to Sell.
Dig Deep and Help to Eradicate
Great White Plague.

The fresh air camp on the North
Side and the free clinic at los West
Eighth avenue, maintained by the TO
peka Tuberculosis association are
doing an excellent work in an enort
to stamp out the great whlte
plague in topeka. The funds of the
association are exhausted and there
are bills to pay.
Whether or not it will be possible to
continue the good work OF the assocla-
tion is a question that will be settled
on Tag Day''-Saturday On that
occasion several hundred matrons and
pretty girls will see to 1t that every
body is tagged in the interests OF TINS
splendid work or know the reason Why WY
Heretofore the proceeds from rag
Day have gone towards the work or
the Provident association, but as that
Institution has a small amount Oh
money on hand and is depending upon
its friends for further liberal contrl-
buttons to carry on the work, and as
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. association nad
reached a critical period in its exist
ence, it was decided to turn over the
money collected to the latter organ1za-
ton.
The Fresh Air Camp.
The camp on the North Side which
was described in the Monday issue or
the State Journal is situated nlgh
above the banks of Soldier creek Where
floods never touch and in the SHADE OF
BIdcSIul Olu Gllll0 VI nus
In some ways it is an ideal spot Ior
such a camp.
The little colony of canvas consists
of sixteen tents including an office, ana
kitchen and dining room comDlneq.
1t is we'll equipped for the work which
is carried on. At the present time the
patients are II in number, but later
in the season others Will be given &C
Communications in the haven of rest.
Several patients have been discharged
ne o., nj w
Nothing but the best in the way or
care and food is provided and this
costs money, but it is God-send TO
many persons who are afflicted with
position to buy the proper nourish-
ing foods necessary to sustain life and
to throw off the dread disease.
tuberculosis Dispensary.
A most important feature in connec-
gtion with the work of the Topeka Anti
! Tuberculosis association is the tuber-
culosis dispensary. which was estab-
lished at 106 West Eighth street, Feb
ruary Is.
Here twice a week, Tuesdays and
Saturdays, from 1880 to $3.50 o'clock,
. patients are examined who have been
kFour doctors, DR.. L. V. Sans, DR.. e. G..
Joss, DIR. A. Edgar Billings, and DR..
J. N. Beasley-two of them at a time
have been examining the patients who
ployed nurse Miss Neiswanger.
The latter goes to the homes of the
poor of the city and finds out their
needs. When she finds a person whom
she believes needs attention she tells
that person to report at the clinic.
More than thirty patients have been
examined at the dispensary Four of
them have been sent to the fresh air
camp, and two others have been re-
ferred to the Provident association
which has provided tents for them at
their own homes.
Twenty prescriptions have been filled.
and the visiting nurse has made nearly
200 visits to houses. There were three
cases discovered by Miss Neiswanger
where the patients were not able to go
personally to the dispensary
Remove TOnSils and Adenoids.
The attending physicians have re-
moved tonsils and adenoids in a num-
Der Of cases, which has relieved the
condition Of persons who had the ten
dency towards CONSUMPTION. 1t is now
generally recognized that enlarged ton
sils and adenoid growths which cause
brea thing through the mouth are dam
gerous, as all sorts of germs go direct
to the lungs. When they are removed
it betters the general physical condition
of the patient.
Several manufacturers of matted milk
and other foods have agreed to send
to the dispensary supplies of their
goods free of charge. This will be a
help, as the food bill which the Topeka
Anti tuberculosis association pays is
steep.
The dispensary has done good in
many individual instances but space
will not permit of going into detail.
The committee in charge of the Tag
day. arrangements has asked all the
workers to meet Saturday morning at
the Auditorium at o'clock for final
instructions. All girls who would be
willing to report for work are asked
to do so at this time. The girls really
seem to thoroughly enjoy the Tag
day' experience and 1t is a notable
fact that many Of them have been ION
the job for several years.
The Stations.
There will be so stations over the CITY
presided over by a matron who will