Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-10
50,0O0 New Gases of Huber culosis Constantly Drift
 ing About the Country.
NEWSPAPER ADS
Ire Urged-Delegates to Washington Meeting Tell of Prevention
 Work,

z Washington, May 9.-"About. 5O.000 new cases Of tuberculosis are con- stantly drifting about the country for long periods without even consulting physicians, was the astonishing statement made here today by Dr. Harry Lee Barnes, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Sanatoriam in an address before the Sociological section of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- culosis.
 Dr. Barnes blamed some of the states which have sanatoriums for not sufficiently advertising the fact. Thousands of sufferers declared the doctor, who are now receiving ! no treatment whatever, would be on the road to health, or at least their disease would be arrested, if they | knew about the state institutions where they might be treated irrespec- tive of their financial condition" Dr. Barnes declared that the early symptoms of tuberculosis should be so we'll and so persistently described l in newspaper advertisements, that | they would become stereotyped on the l brain Of everyche who can read. In speaking of one years results l The Home Hospital, the new institu- 1 ticn established in New York for the l treatment Of pulmdlary tuberculosis among the poor, Dr. Edward c. Bren- l ner, attending physician of the Home 1 Hospital stated that sixty-one per i cent of the patients treated at the hospital during the past twelve monhs, had apparently been cured. He further stated that the treat ment at the Home Hospital cost the Association for Improving the Condi- 1 tion of the poor, which owns it, only l 40 and 50 per cent as much as the ordinary treatment.
 l Dr. Charles s. Prest, health officer l of Waterford, N. Y.. said that the prevention of tuberculosis in the country and the slNall towns was i perhaps more difficult thing than in the large cities. This, he said, was due to the appalling ignorance con- corning tuberculosis in the country 1 districts, and of such preventive ] measures as ventilation, cleanliness of person and surroundings and of the evils of overcrowding.
 Dr. Alfred r. Hess, medical direc- tor of the New York Tuberculosis his doll. Later they teach him that certain home duties belong to the girl; and since the boys work-such as cutting wood and drawing water no longer has place in the city household, he grows up without sense of responsibility and devotion toward his home when he has one; and on that rock has split the happiness of many families.
 "The girl. on the other hand, is con- stantly repressed and, because her | faults are not dramatic like those of her brothers, her elders fail to realize that she needs broad training to free her from the narrowness and petit ness of women. which has been the l jest of the age.
 Vigorous sports, especially games, are found to develope those char acteristics in which women are lack ing-physical strength and courage, sense of justice. public spirit, freedom from self-consciousness and broad democratic spirit. Yet tradition for the most part Oars girls from such 1 sports, so that while the boys play baseball the girls must loow on en- viously, or play sickly sentimental games of their own; if they are not at home, bearing home duties or re- sponsibilities--that often are too heavy for them-or waiting idle and impatient for the boys to be free to join them.
 Let the girls play hard sometimes and forget themselves. Quieter sport music, literature, art-have their very important place for the girl; and | quite as much for the boy, For with 1 this all-round training each may be gentle and each may be strong when occasions demand it; and together | they may round out fuller, more wholesome life for the race"
 MeritOl Pile Remedy