Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-11
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
AsSOCIATIONORGANIzED
AtLast Nights Enthusiastic Meeting
at the State House.
DR.. FELL ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Baltimore Speakers Tell Of the Wo. K
in Fighting the Disease Which is
CuEabIe

Durable
Nearly every chair ia the auditor
ium OF the House OF Delegates al 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
q good speaker, was heard to espec-
ial advantage on this occasion as he
introduced each speaker In pleasing
manner and with an apt little speech
The Governor, too. is a 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
/ riols questions of order and privilege,
or declination of Office.
Governor Goldsborough, in his intro
ductory, called himself a citizen of
Annapolis. of which he is pleased 20
| be one. he said the visiting Doctors
whom he was about t. introduce were
the most distinguished in their line
of work in Baltimore. and he stated
| the object of the meeting was to or
ganize a permanent association for
Prevention and Relief of TuDerculo-
sis in Annapolis.
The Governor said he knew of no
cause more worthy than that to pre-
vent and finally stamp out the White
Plague. He introduced DIR. 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 ii
takes organized effort to fight it.
tuberculosis he said is disease that
has increased year by year, but it
can be prevented, and finally eradi-
Gated. The discovery of the germ by
Koch in 1898 gave knowledge that
the disease can be communicated, and
the study Of the germ shows that il
can be prevented.
People must be educated intelli-
gently to fight the disease, said DIR.
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 ti-tuberculosis
fgh. This brought about the en-
ployment of district nurses, who can
obtain better information and more
important facts than the doctors or
even the health officers.
DIR. Jones advocated the torma-
tIon of a 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 DIR. 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 ection OF this
/ disease. She said nurses 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 disc0nraging
| work of eradicating the dis ease that
was controlled by environment; Of the
cases that must die and the encour-
agement to b. given in the work.
She spoke OF the kind cf food TO be
| given tuberculosis patients and other
requirements in treating cases. She
said in Anna polls there must be a pub
| lie opinion behind the tuberculosis.
movement, or it could not be a sue.
cess.
In introducing Dr. Magruder, hear
of the Federated Charities ths
Governor said he is the one man II
Baltimore upon whose shoulders Z.
placed the sufferings of many. DR.
Magruder said the Anti-Tuherculo
sis Society caused trouble for IA,
Federated Charities. that when fu
migston destroyed the househol,
effects OF ths poor, the Charities Ia,
to replace them. He said povert
Is not thing to be accepted a. IN
evitable. IL is not = thing to be cured
but an Evil TO be eradicated. "Th
poor ye have always with you. say
Holy Writ, but it is quite a differen
thing to say 1.-THE poor you are t
have always with you Poverty
preventabls. and il is not to be al
ways with Us. We have gotten rid Q
four-ifths of the poverty there wa
in the days Of Jesus, Himself.
The greatest cause Of poverty, sal
DR.. Magruder, is sickness and MOI
tality, mostly tuberculosis. If v