Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-01-22
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
LEAGUE HOLDS MEETING
MIR. Steele Of Baltimore Makes Tell
Speech at Mcdowell Hall.
NEEDS OF FIGHTING PLAGUE.
Goes Hand and Hand With Poverty
Consumption Durable, Preventable
Disease.

Consumption a Durable, Preventable
Disease.
After its organization about week
ago the Anti-Tuberculosis Associa-
tion. Annapolis Branch, held its first
meeting yesterday afternoon IN Nc
Dowell Hall. The president Of the
Association, DR.. Fell, pres sided. Little
business of Importance was tranacted
aside from the appointment by the
president, voted upon by the Assocla-
ton. of a finance committee to solicit
members and fees to carry on the
work.
The committee appointed consisted
of Mr.. Harry Hopkins, Or. Walton
Hopkins. DR.. Harry B. CAN'T, Mrs.
Joseph P. McComas, Miss lsemann
and Mrs. Robert Moss. There was
considerable discussion as to ways and
means Of carrying on the work, but
the feature If the meeting was a
talk given by Mr.. N H. Steele, sec
rotary of the Baltimore Branch and
State Association, who had been in
vited here for the purpose of outlin-
ing the work done by other Anti-Tu-
berculosis Associations, especially in
Baltimore, the headquarters of the
State Association.
Mr.. Steele's talk was most inter
esting, to the point and framed in
the choicest English. 1t was wholly
informal and contained many facts
from which the local Branch of the
Anti tuberculosis Association may
profit. First and most important he
said the free district tuberculosis
nurse for Annapolis and Anne Arundel
county is promised and will be on
duty here on March first. She will
report to the head of the local Branch,
DR.. Fell and the officers, and viii set
about her work here.
An ordinary, trained nurse is not a
district tuberculosis nurse. This sort
of nursing requires special training,
aside from her profession, and the
free district nurses are of themselves
apart in their profession and under
special instruction in their required
work, for a given time. The nurse
to be sent here is from Western
Maryland, and is Under special in
srruction in Baltimore how, having
another months necessary training
before she can nil requirements.
Mr. Steele complimented Annapo-
| lis on its splendid work Of having
raised s601 by the sale of Red Cross
seals and thereby are assured free tn
berculosis district nurse for one year.
He told of the work of the nurse
being educational. how she had to
find her way into the home of pa.
tients and teach them the care of, and
/ cleanliness necessary, not to infect
others. First she gets the coopera-
| tion of the doctors of the town who
must report their patients afflicted
| with tuberculosis. Mr. Steele said
when DR.. Koch discovered the germ
of Tuberculosis be said there must be
three laws governing its treatment
registration of the cases, disinfec-
tion and segregation.
To report all cases of the disease
aud register them was unAmerIean.
1t might do in Europe, but it would
not work here, it was first thought,
but this is being done now. Disin-
fecting rooms where people die of
tuberculosis, or move away was at
first looked upon with disfavor, but
is accepted now and is being done
everywhere.
Mr.. Steele said So per cent. of the
cases of tuberculosis are among col
ored people. They are our cooks,
our nursemaids, housemaids, laun-
dresses and what not, and it is the col
0red brother whom we must look after
in treating tuberculosis, and ask the
Legislature to help establish a COL
mony and hospital for colored tubecu-
losis cases. A Democratic Legisla-
ture is not inclined to do this, but it
broke the ironclad rule last year in
asmuch as it established a hospital
for the colored insane, in this county.
Mr.. Steele said DR.. Koch, the great
German scientist. who discovered the
tubercular germ, said consumption is
communicable, preventable and cur
able, and the Auti-Tuberculosis Asso-
citation stands for relieving and pre-
venting the disease that goes hand in
hand with poverty. Stamp out tu-
berculOsis and the gr eater number cf
cases Of poverty will be eliminated.
He told of the Baltimore work
which is now a part of the munich
pality. Baltimore city has fifteen
paid tuberculosis district nurses that
are part of the city's machinery
and municipal government. At first.
he said, it was difficult, but after the
State Association proved by its work
what could be done, the city authori-
ties wisely entered the campaign for
the relief and prevention of the
dread disease, which causes the death
of hundreds each year.
One nurse cannot capably attend
to more than 100 cases, Mr.. Steele
said, and he outlined their profess
sional duties and Office work. The
advonf of fha free DISTRICT v.,-,o -.