Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-21
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CONVENTION IS
A BIG Success

A BIG Success
100 Delegates from As Counties Pres
ent. Farmers in Majority, Next
Business Men-County Boards and
Commercial Clubs Represented Of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Passed.
On Friday Of last week the 18th inst
there was held in the St. Paul Hotel,
st. Paul, delegate convention to dis
.cuss a state program for the control
of tuberculosis. The principal adj
dresses were by Pres. George Edgar
Vincent Of the State University, Dean
Albert F. Woods of the College of Ag-
riculture, Dean F. F. Wesbrook of the
College of Medicine and Surgery and
Mr.. ]. H. Beck of the ST. Paul Assoc
citation of Commerce. Many of the
delegates made short addresses no.
tably A. N. Farmer, Supt. of Schools,
St. Cloud; Mr.. Ralph Wheelock, Sec
rotary to the Governor; DR.. E. H.
Bailey, Lake City; Rev. Edward At
kinson, of Elk River; County Supt. of
Schools, Carl V. Swain, of Red Wing,
and many others. Dean Woods
pledged the cooperation of the de-
partment of agriculture of the State
University in the work of spreading
information in the rural districts
Pres. Vincent emphasized the fact
that the physicians could not solve
this problem by themselves. Mr..
Wheelock quoted from the letter writ
ten by Gov. Eberhart to Speaker Dunn
last winter during the session of the
legislature urging adequate state pro-
vision for tuberculosis. The trend
of the addresses was in the direction
CT system of local but state-aided
institutions near the homes of the
people to care especially for the ad-
vanced cases. The necessity of ap-
preciating the seriousness of tuber-
culosis as a rural problem was also
dWelt upon and means suggested for
the rural educational propaganda
A number of members of the last
legislature were present and if any
doubt had previously existed in their
minds as to whether there existed
widespread and substantial sentiment
back of the demand for additional and
substantial state appropriations for
tuberculosis it was dispelled. The
fact that the health of live stock was
better looked after by the State OF
Minnesota than the health of human
beings was mentioned again and
again. A feature of the convention
was the presence of quite a number
OF men and women who had found life
and health at the State Sanatorium,
and who had come many of them lone
distances and at great personal sacri
flee to urge the completion OF the
State Sanatorium and the erection Of
other institutions of the same kind.
The work of the Minnesota Associa
ton for the prevention and relief Of
tuberculosis under whose auspices
the convention was held was man,
times referred to and it was urged
that it be better supported. A large
amount of information about what /.
being done in the various communi
ties was volunteered by delegates. Sc
. that delegates of other communities
might have the benefit of it. It wa.
shown that seven county boards hai
already appropriated money for disin
, lection and visiting nurses and abou
a dozen cities are spending none,
for the same purpose, that a begin
j ming had been made in systematicall,
covering counties by holding a lecture
in school house in each township
and the results of this work in three
counties were felt to be satisfactory
enough to Justify the extension of thi.
method over the state Very few O
!, the important counties We're not re
presented. The following were thu
resolutions that were unanimously
, passed:
Since it is the duty Of the state t.
} protect its subjects from preventablt
diseases, and since tuberculosis is {
s preventable disease, which for year,
has been the cause Of two Thousand