The Washington herald., 1911-11-14
WAR IN CAPITAL
ON WHITE PLAGUE
SNAPPED OUT
Nurses in the Public Schools
to Be Urged.
"AIR ROOMS" FAVORED

Radical steps in fighting "the great
white plague" which will embrace a
petition to the Commissioners, demand
ing that they include in the appropria-
ton budget of the District the cost of
a corps of tuberculosis nurses to work
under the direction of the health office,
the installation of a corps of school
nurses to fight the disease in the public
schools, and the placing of the Wash
ington Tuberculosis Hospital under the
direction of the District health Office,
were a few of the provisions mapped
out in a programme adopted last night
at meeting of the Association for the
Prevention of tuberculosis, at the Pub
lie Library.
DETAILS OF PROGRAMME.
In detail. the programme adopted for
the coming year embraced these provi-
sions:
All nurses employed by the Commits
sioners to be assigned to special tube
bulosis dispensaries.
Different arrangements to be made re-
garding the reception Of tuberculosis pa
| tients at Washington hospitals.
To urge the board Of education to
push its demand for open-aIr schools.
To install one or more "air rooms in
each public school for the use of chill
dren demanding more than the ordinary
amount OF fresh air.
That the Congressional Committee on
Laws and Legislation be asked to secure
the passage of a bill providing for the
compulsory removal to hospitals of care
less and dangerous tuberculosis patients.
For better Capitalization of private
tuberculosis preventive work by cooper
ating with the American Red Cross.
For a better understanding regarding
the admission of patients into the Wash
ington tuberculosis Hospital. .
For conference between medical So
cleties of the District, the health office,
Board Of Charities, the Associated Charl
ties, Instructive Visiting Nurses Society.
Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce,
and the Monday Evening Club to devise
ways and means for furthering the tuber-
culosis prevention work
Speak Before AasocIation.
Dr. Alexander NJ Wilson. director of
the Henry Phipps Institute. of Philadel-
phia, with an address on The commu-
nitys responsibility for tuberculosis" and
DR.. John s. Fulton, Of Baltimore, seere-
tary of the International Congress on
Hygiene and Demography, on Race
characteristics in the tuberculosis prob
lem," were the speakers of the evening.
DR.. George NJ. Kober presided In the
absence of the president, Gen. George NJ.
Sternberg. Previous to the addresses,
business meeting was held which re-
suited in the election Of the following
officers:
Gen. George NJ Sternberg, president:
Mr.. Emile Berliner. vice president, and
Gen. William H. Forwood, treasurer.
Ten new members were elected to the
board of directors for a three-year-term,
expiring November, 1914. They are Will
lam H. Baldwin, DR.. Ryan Devereux,
Gen. William H. Forwood. Mrs. John
Mclaughlin, DIR. William c. Rives, DR..
E. c. Schroeder, Rabbi Louis Stern, Rev.
John Van Schaick, jr., George s. Will
son, and DI. William c. Woodward.
Reports Are Presented.
Brief reports were presented to the So
ciety by DR.. Kober, of the committee on
dispensaries; DR.. William C. Gwynn, for
the committee on education, and Miss
Isabel L. Strong. for the committee on
day camps.
The report of the treasurer, Gen. Will
lam H. Forwood, which was presented
and approved, showed contributions and
other sources OF income to have been
A,OO9.64 during the preceding year, and
net disbursements of $,331.s7. Tubercu-
losiS patients to the number of 333 have
been received by the association at its
dispensary during the year.
DR.. Fulton, in his address, presented
maze of statistics regarding race charac-
tNristics noted in the fight against con-
sumption
Washington is relatively numerically