The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26
CUNSHANAN'S PLANS ROUT
 TUBERCULOSIS Former Commissioner Graphi- cally Depicts Ravages of
 the Plague. PRAISES WORK OF
 DONOVAN AND MCNEIL Outlines His Ideas of Banding the Workers to Garry on @ Fight Against Disease. s

] Tuberculosis, scourge of the past and the. present and collector of such
 a heavy death toll that 1t is commor,-
 iy termed the white plague was placed. under the 1seareh1ight+ before a representative audience in Polls thea stre yesterday afternoon byssI1on. John F. Gunshanan of Hartf0rd, former state tuberculosis connfnissioner. This was a mass meeting uild CT the direction of the Enpl oyes Tuharculosis Relief association of Bridgeport in a further ance of: it's plans for bringing relief along an extensive line. Many valuable points were alphabetically presented. MT. Gunshanan presented his theme The Prevention~to of Tuberculosis in Factories and y0ther Places in q forcible mann efs g1eaning 11dA points from a practical experience of about l2 years and an exhaustive study. of the theme. ss9
 The work of Congressman Jeremiah Donovan of the Fourth district, then State senator was highly commended and MT. Gtfnshanan although admit ting difference of political belief. credited him with being largely re- sponsi ble for legislative action result ing in the instituting of a state tt1ber- culosis commission and real beaihnfng Ol 4LiiO pEgSs5a eALG slIlGt nEa5 TGSllted z1n Connecticl1t's ranking high among t11e states in it's handling and prevention of stuberculo5fs Mir. Don ovaa1se bril- liant Speech. credited with being largely responsible for favorable ac- tion on the project was recalled.
 That the new and modern ir1firnlary at the Shelton sanit ofiur1a active plans for building being now under way will be- when onpleted a monument to Senator Archibald McNeil, Jr., and his work at the last legislature was another contention He said that if was Senator McNef1s fnsfstenee that a part of the appropriation be used for in infirIpary which resulted in favorable action. That there afs mead Of an 4nfirmary. and that the urese1,t; provisions are disgrace to the state and eomrnissf on, were contentious Of the speaker. Attef1tion yvas called to tf1s olydeets of the oTaani atfon aa1d the reagoflA why there should be a, generous req sponse by those approached, not only on account of the possibility Of their being victims but in aAfee1lardfns feI- low employees as we'll as members of their families. It WAS explained that even earlHl1 rdohatdons from one cent to fifty cents. would do much good and result in benefit for many, not only in assuring prOper treatment for those unfortunate enough to be vic-s tiTns but in providing for the support Of their families when the sole source of income is at least temporarily re- moved Attention was called to the. mortality ratio from the disease in Brid gaeport alone, not realized when there are only d few deaths from day to day. but something to cause serious thought when regarded collectively
 Were it possible, he said, to picture 200 lleafses passing eatsida in q row. each with a tt1beretf1osis victim inside and followed bv the ones to whom suffering had been caused, their might, in way bring 6 realization. He showed that pr>otsetion agAif1At the TEavages of x the disease is essential, particularly. son tI1es part Of those ta whom the question of health means every thing. He told 5f plans to con- tintie~ legislation so that the victim undergoing treat11el1t may be assured that his faHni1y will not be destitute during bis allsenee. Tl4e progress Of the campaign in the staHe, from early orgaaliz izution, was oifed as he fold how the organization arBtftt1ted in Brfdge-y port six years ago. w11Atever other good may have been accomplished, answered tine one rjtrfpose of btdr1 sing the ragn ltt16e Of the question to the. attention Of the Legislature and re- suIed iI.s tIla -Esste sanItoriun being lo- cated at Shelton. , from personaf experiences and obser- vatians and used te il1s1strate some imp poftaR1t point, Followed each other gn rapid succession Alt times the ai- 1eflce was so in pr -esaive fhAt a pir1- fall could have been heard; MT. Gum pausiI1g in emphasis of some poant Of more than ordinaHy weight
 How fs5befci irfosas knows no class. no partiel1Hare trade s11or special s1trrot1f1t.- .-s If4g'g was shown also as to how some e1asses gf employees working in we'll appointed 9uInoundiHEs, are more 11a-s bie, aecorfidfg to statistics, to con tract the disease. how the victim in-l sisting on continuing at work for
 financial or 0hl1er reasons, proves a menaee to fellow employees and all members of the eost1 t1f1ufiitys n0w the geffns, flying about in tHe dust and alive though possibly dofTiiant for time, may. cause trouble most nnex- I5ected1y, The work of sim liar organ izatio41s. in other cities and towns Of the state was presented to illustrate w11at acaaa be done in Bridgeport.
 Alderman Vincent Whitney presta- ed, spoke Briefly e1l the purposes of the gathering a11a characterised 1t as being one of the most Important and soler111 meetings held in Bridgeport: haviTlss ae 1t did, for its purpose the warfare Of the working people against tt1fJerclll asls He then irnt1a0a ussed
 
 and mentioned the naenaee of tuberea- loss to the community.
 The musical numbers were furnished by those donating their services. $. 2. PoH donated the theatre while the proEraIrls were donated with the conn p1ifner1ts of the American GqapI1o-
 phone Go. TneFe was eone6rt .pro- gram by the Wheeler. & Wilson band
 the orgarlizatio11 also acting as aceon1- pa anist for Frank " BrodeFiek. bari tone of St. Patrie1sss church, Hart
 ford, in his singing Of ssTdhe Palms, '
 by Faslre Miss Judith Ilandberg sang
 tone Fine Day. from Masdatne But
 tx-f1y,.. Ptlcef11i, and Mrs Clarence M
 Hayes sang the prelude from the .sCy-
 cle of Life,'' Ronald E1is Lungterg.
 baritone, sang The Publican, ,,' B. vHfderwater; and Miss Lartdberg so1