Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-11
THE WHITE GAR
AN OBJECT LESSON
Over 500 People From City and
County Visit tuberculosis Car
HOURS FOR VISITORS TO CAR.
EVERYBODY Invited 10 Inspect the Car
Which is Here for Educational
Purposes

Over FIVE hundred people in An
napolis and Anne Arundel county have
visited the white car" of the Mary
land Anti-Tuberculois Association,
which arrived here on Saturday and
is on siding at the Short Line depot,
through the courtesy of Manager
cherry.
The car was brought here through
the solicitation and interest of the
local branch Of the Anti Tuber-
culosis Association, and is intended
as an object lesson toteach
the method and manner of pre-
venting the spread of the disease.
The car is in charge of Mr.. NJ. r.
Clare who is untiring in his efforts to
explain the charts and pictures. and
to direct visitors.
The first day the car was open to
the public, Sunday, 270 visitors pass
ed through. and yesterday the visi-
tors numbered between 230 and 250.
The visiting hours are daily from
l2 to ahd 3 to p. M. and from
1880 to 9 p. m. During these hours
the school children have ample time
to visit the car, which is educational
and interesting and which every school
teacher and scholar should see.
The car is divided into two sec
tions, which are covered with pictures
and charts, mottos and signs which
tell the cause am methods of spread
ing the tubercular organism as we'll
as preventing the dread disease.
Germs breed fast in dark places, and a
number of pictures of such breeding
places, commonly known to all, are
displayed. Sneezing and cou ching
spread the disease and people with
tuberculosis sneeze and cough about
US continuously, contaminating the
air we breathe as shown in the pic
lures.
One large picture says Don't Kiss
the Baby" and to illustrate the per-
nicious kissing of babies an old tu-
berculIsis woman is about to kiss an
innocent babe in its mothers arms.
The exhibit shows there are iey000
cases of tuberculosis ia Baltimore
alone. and only 700 are provided for.
There are three times as many cases
among colored as among white peo-
pie, and there is provision for only
thirty-fve tubercular colored pe0-
pie, altho the rates of colored to
white tuberculosis cases is FIVE to two.
One Of the illustrations in the White
Car says there is "No Known Drug
that Will Cure tuberculosis, and all
such advertised cures are fakes. Con-
sumption is curable and preventable,
and the people are being educated
to realize this fact. A picture was
shown of man and whose entire
family died of tuberculosis. He took
the open fresh air treatment, slept
on porch and practically lived out of
doors, and followed the direction of
the nurse until he was practically
cured. He is today one of the lead
ing bu siness men of Baltimore.
Except insanity, there is no dis.
ease that throws so many people
uppn the public charity and care-take
as tuberculosis. One of the placards
in the tuberculosis car says: Don't
put your child to rk too young. ;"
Children contract tub .rculosis from
dark, close places, from weakened
condition of the system and run down
state of health. But this is true no
only of children, but adults. Consump-
tion is disease that can be and is be-
ing controlled more and more every
year, and the method is partly educa-
tional. Every Annapolis man, woman
and child and every resident of the
county is urged to visit the White Car
during its stay here this week. There
is scarcely family that has rot one
case, and all families should be inter
ested in its cure and prevention. An
napolis raised $500 from the sale of
Red Cross stamps and for this i'll
be given a free tuberculosis nurse,
who will go on duty here March 1.