Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-29
AT CITY HALL.
tuberculosis Exhibit Free
To the Public, Today.
Cause and Symptoms Of Dis
ease--Up.to-Oaie Treatment.
Augusta Anti.ruhercuIosis League
In Charge Of II.

public at the city hall in the Common
| Council room, under the auspices OF
| 1.-The Augusta Anti-Tubereulosis League.
This exhibit should be seen by every
man, woman and child in the city of
Augusta. il will be an usual oppor-
Iturity TO see the most up-to-date
methods employed in the relief and
prevention of tuberculosis. The Au-
susta league is able to have the exhibit
through the courtesy of the Maine
Anti-Tuberculosis Association and to
exhibit Ii in the city hall because OF
the interest of Mayor NeWbert and the
city government.
This exhibit has been built especially
for the Maine Anti-Tuberculosis Asso-
citation for educational purposes 1t
represents the latest methods of ed
ueational work along this line, and is
probably the most up to date exhibit
in America today.
1t consists of five large cabinets, two
smaller illusion cabinets and several
moving models.
Cabinet A shows the cause of tuber-
culosis and the financial loss from this
disease 1t has photographs iiiustrat-
ing the germ and Others calling atten-
ton to the financial less in this State
and in the country. In the centre pan
ell of this cabinet is an electric light
which goes out every 80 seconds and a
card calling attention to the fact that
there is a death from tuberculosis in
the civilized world ever 80 seconds.
Cabinet r shows the methods of in
lection and of prevention. In this
cabinet the fly is given a prominent
place as a method of infection, While
unscreened grocery stores and tuber-
eular cattle are also called to atten-
ton. The centre panel in this cabinet
shows a moving model, illustrating an
unscreened grocery store with flies
flying from out of door through an un-
screened window occupied by tuber-
culosis case and thence through anoth-
er open window down and into the
door of the grocery store, thence into
sugar barrel; Illustrating the fact
hat in unscreened grocery stores, we
are likely to get more than we pay for.
This model was built from deserip-
ton given by a district nurse of what
she found on her district, and can be
duplicated within ten miles of Water
Vile. This is a marvel of mechanical
ingenuity, run by small electric mo-
tor and clock and would be worth the
time of anyone to investigate.
Cabinet G illustrates real and fake
consumption cures. and has illustra-
tions calling attention to the symp
toms of the disease and the only way
in which the disease can be cured. In
-. h
medicine bottle, showing the features
Of a benevolent old gentleman, appar-
emily at peace with the whole world.
out the next flash shows the skull and
cross bones, illustrating the fact that
death turks in the patent medicine
bottle.
Cabinet D illustrates sanatorium
trea tment, shows some of the sanato-
ria in the State and calls attention to
the need of others It's centre panel is
a four-sided Transparency, operated by
an electric motor and illustrating the
so-called New York banner model.
This reviews the methods of preVen-
ton, the methods of infection, the
methods of cure and the allies of con-
sumption. This and its method of ac-
ton is another marvel of ingenuity,
and is one of the most attractive
things we have In this cabinet is a
map illustrating the decrease in tuber-
culosis death rate in the last few years,
and another map of Maine with colored
lacks, showing the towns covered by
a district nurse, locations of the dis
pensaries, sanatoriums, etc.
Cabinet f illustrates hospitals, day
camps, etc. 1t has pictures illustrat-
ing home treatment, sanatorium treat
ment, dispensary work, school work
and allied subjects. 1t also calls at
tention to the need of advanced case
hospitals in the State, and in prom
inent location, mentions the fact that
Maine has no beds availab BILE for an
advanced case. The centre panel is a
large painting showing night scene
with the moon and stars, and calls at
tention, in a graphic way, to the fact
that the night air is not dangerous.
All of these cabinets are brilliantly
illuminated by electric lights, invisible
to the person who is viewing the cab
met.
Among the other features of the ex-
-
windows, with a sign calling attention
to the fact that germs thrive in closed
rooms, but that the out of door air
kills germs. Second an illusion cabi-
net, showing in the first flash tramp
drinking from the common cup at a
fountain. The next fash shows a mo-
Their offering her babe water from the
same cup. large sign calls atten-
| ton to this cabinet and suggests thai
| before one uses a common cup, they
| should remember who might have use6
| it before. A secon> .ilusion cabine
| shows a room such as is frequently
found by the nurse, damp, dark ant
dirty, and the second flash shows l
after it has been renovated through
the agency of the district nurse, light
wholesome and sanitary. An appro
| pirate sign also calls attention t.
| these rooms. These cabinets Hasl
about every ten seconds, and presen
in very graphic manner the danger
Of the common cup and of the unsani
tary room. There is also large dia
sign run by electricity which count
loft the deaths in the United States, on
every 2k minutes. This is started tn