Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-11
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED
AtLast Nights Enthusiastic Meeting
at tue State House.
DR.. FELL ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Baltimore Speakers Tell Of the Wolk
in Fighting the Disease Which is
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Nearly every chair ia the auditor
ium OF the House OF Delegates at the
State House was occupied last night
by representative people of the city
and Naval Academy, when Governor
Goldsborough called the meeting TO
order.
The Governor, always at ease and
a good speaker, was heard to espec-
ial advantage on this occasion a. he
introduced each speaker IN pleasing
manner and with an apt little speech.
The Governor, too. is parliamen-
tartan, as he proved himself to be
at intervals throughout the conduct of
the meeting, when he ruled out of
order this and that gentleman who
punctuated the proceedings with va
rioIs questions of order and privilege,
or dsclination of Office.
Governor Goldsborough, in his intro
| ductory, called himself a citizen Of
Annapolis. of which he is pleased to
be one. lie said the visiting Doctors
whom he was about to introduce were
the most distinguished in their line
of Sork in Baltimore. and be stated
the object OF the meeting was to or
ganize a permanent association for
Prevention and Relief of Tunerculo-
sis in Annapolis.
The Governor said he knew of no
cause more worthy tnan that to pre-
vent and finally stamp out the White
Plague. He introduced DR.. G. Hamp-
son Jones, Assistant Health Commits
sioner of Baltimore, whc spoke on the
municipal work in Baltimore along
this line. and the necessity for form.
ing an Anti-TUberculosis Society in
Annapolis for the special purpose Of
fighting a special disease. He said il
is necessary to fight the disease from
within net from without, and it
takes organized effort to fight it.
tuberculosis he said is a disease that
has increased year by year, but it
can be prevented, and finally eradi-
Gated. The discovery of the germ by
Koch in 1893 gave knowledge that
the disease can be communicated, and
the study Of the germ shows that it
can be prevented.
People must be educated intelli-
gently to fight the disease, said DR..
Jones, therefore organizations have
been formed in states and counties
for it's eradication. Personal contact
with those afflicted causes the great
est sufferers, and it is ne cessary to
study the exact local conditions to
report to the health officers and others
interested in the Neutrality-suspicious.
fgh. This brought about the en-
ployment of district nurses, who can
important facts than the doctors or
even the health officers.
DR.. Jones advocated the forma-
tIon of local organization and spoke
Of the wonderfully effective work
done here as the result of the sale of
Red Cross seals Christmas, and be
kasw that everything that can be
done will be done by the willing
workers of Annapolis.
In introducing DR.. Ellen LaMotte,
Head of the District Nurses of Balti-
more, the Governor said in matters of
social health reform while man has
contributed largely, woman has in
deed shown us the wsy. Dr.. LaMotte,
who is director Of the District Tu-
berculosis Nurses, told of the sixteen
districts into which Baltimore is di-
vided She said some Of the nurses
had ESQ patienCs. She described
| methods of reporting cases and their
| treatment. She told of the educa-
tional side and the difficulty in teach
ing families of the inf lection of this
| disease. She said nurse s did for
| patients what doctors have not time
| t. do, and that if results do not de-
velop soon they are bound to crop out
sooner or later. She spoke Of meth-
DDS of fumigation and the necessity
Of teaching families the needs for
this. She told of the Encouraging
work Of ersdicating the dis ease that
was controlled by environment; Of the
casee that must die and the encour-
agement to b. given in the work
she spoke of the kind c f food to be
given tuberculosis patients and other
requirements in treating cases. She
said in Annapolis there must be a pub
lie opinion behind the tuberculosis
movement, or it could not be a suc-
cess.
| In introducing Dr. Magruder, head
Of the Federated Charities the
Governor said he is the one man in
Baltimore upon whose shoulders Is
placed the sufferings of many. Dr..
Magruder said the nti-Tuherculo.
sis Society caused trouble for the
Federated Charities, that when fu
migaton destroyed the household
effects of ths poor, the Charities haC
to replace them. He said povert,
is not thing to be accepted as 10
evitable. IT is not = thing to be cured
but an syil to be eradicated. "Th,
poor ye have always with you. " say
Holy Writ, but it is quite a differen
thing to say the poor you are Il
have always with you" Poverty j
preventable. and it is not to be al
ways with Us. We have gotten rid o
four-hfths Of the poverty there wa
in the days of Jesus, Himself.
The greatest cause of poverty, sal
DR.. Magruder, is sickness and NOR
tality, mostly tuberculosis. If W