The Calumet news., 1912-03-08
TUBERCULOSIS
DAY POSTPONED
WILL re HELD IN THE FALL I'm
STEAD OF ON APRIL 20
AS ORIGINALLY
PLANNED.

ready tccn sent throughout the cOun- |
try stating that National tuberculosis
Day would be observed on April 2s,
1912, ii has been necessary to change
the date until some time next fall The
following letter from the assistant sew
retary of the National Association will
explain why this has been done
Miss Carol f. Walton,
| Ann. Arbor.. Michigan.
My Dear Madam
II has been CALLED TO our attention
that Sunday. April 2s. which we had
selected as National tuberculosis Day
Will be observed in the Protestant
churches Of. the United States and
Canada as "conservation Sunday" of
the Men and Religion Forward, Move
ment. ..t~spt
Because OF the situation that has
arisen out of this confusion of dates,
| the National Tssoeiatl6nF has decided
/ 10 os postpopeth epssrpsgae aoCs Ttiber-
lculoss Day until 's0fhetime III the Fall.
The reason for taking this course of
action may be summed up briefly as
follows: % The observance of the
two days" on the same date would in
evitably create, ,copfusani in the minds
OF the 'indi9i&St clergyman which
would possibly react unfavorably
against the tuberculosis movement,
because of the pqyflty OF "Sonserva-
tion Sunday. = CD 1t does not seem adj
visable to appear in competition with
the Men and Religion Movement. CD
Although the National Association
may lay a certain claim TO the last
Sunday i'm April as permanent Tuber-
culosis Day. the plans of the Men and
Religion Movement have so far pro-
gressed and have, TO so large an extent
already aligned the church machinery
for Conservation Sunday, that 1t has
been deemed unadvisable to push the
Tuberculosis Sunday movement fur
ther at this season of the year.
We have had many requests i'm pre-
vious years to set Tuberculosis Day in
the fall We would therefore appre-
oiate your suggestions as to what you
would consider the best date for it this
year. We, ourselves, would suggest
October 20 or 81. Either of these dates
would come sufficiently before Thanks
, giving Day to avoid confusion. and at
the same time they would be at the
time of the year when the active win
ter work was just beginning, particu-
larly the organization of the Red Cross
campaign.
II We would request that all associa- =
tions give this matter their careful at
tention, and that So far as possible
they urge the postponement OF Tuber-
; culosis Day until fall.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Philip J. Jacobs.
, .tfa "a Assistant Secretary
, The state association says
That we need the help of the
; churcnes in our work Is shown by tho
facts presented by the National Asso-
citation i'm a recent bulletin. This bull
litin stated that last year out of 200
} 900 churches I'm the United States
r over 10000 observed Tuberculosis Day
and millions of churchgoers were tolC
5 about this disease from the pulpit.
! This year will be the third observa-
| L
ment will be pushed through the coo
nti-tuberculosis associations alliet
/ with the National Association ano
( through the boards OF health, women's
g clubs, and other organizations i'm hun
dreds of cities and TOWNS Throughout
the country. Through these various
bodies the churches viii. be reached
8 | L.,
paiSn
, According TO reports gathered by
5 the National Ascsociation in 1911 prac-
tically 10 per cent OF all deaths IN
church congregations are caused 10y
: | tuberculosis I'm study Of $4,000
communieants of 725 churches i'm which
there were 1000 deaths in 1910, the
death rates among these church-mem-
hers was found to be 2.24 for every
thousand communicates. This is high.
: er than the rate for the Registration
, Area Of the United States which was
/ 100 in"1910
while these statistics" says the
:, National Association. 'are not COM
parable from the point OF view Of ac-
curacy with those Of the Bureau OF
Census. sufficient credcnce may be Civ
en- to them TO indicate that one of the
, most serious problems the ordinary
church has to consider is that of the
devastation of it's membership by tu-
berculosis Every minister I'm the
United States should give this subject
some attention"
!, The Great Western. with = mile