Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1914-01-17
DIR. JACOBS SPEAKS
MAKES URGENT PLEA
For State tuberculosis Hospital
for COlored People.
ANNUAL MEETING OF SOCIETY.
Reports Submitted Officers Re-elect-
ed-COOd Work Done in AnnapO.
lis by District Nurse During
Past Year.

1 he ~ Dh@dANA ANuhSC h0tmk
Past Year.
n small. though representative
gathering assembled last night in the
House of Delegates at the State
House, the occasion being the annual
meeting of the Anne Arundel Branch
of the Maryland Society for the Pre-
vention and Relief of Tuberculosis.
The president, Dr.. Thomas Fell,
presided, and at the opening of the
meeting made q statement of the
work done by the local branch since
| its inception year ago. In that
time, DR.. Fell spoke of the splendid
work accomplished by the District
Nurse, of the free tuberculosis dis
pensary at the Emergency Hospital,
and of the general scope of work
accomplished in the local Geld.
DR.. Fell also read the tr reasurer's
report, showing balance on hand
of $16l.45. The sale Of the Red
Cross Seals at Christmas amounted to
1854. 10, of which sum about $50 had
to be given to the State Association
for the cost of seals, this leaving7 a
II
sary, the president stated, to secure
an amount of at least 81, 900 to re-
tain the services of the Disuict
Nurse (which includes her supplies
for the sick) for another year. The
matter Of raising the additional sum
| will be settled upon later on, the
president stated.
The secretary, DR.. Louis b. Henk-
ell, read his report, which covered, at
some length the work done the past
year. He told of the opening Of the
dispensary for INDECENT tuberculosis
patients, of the Monday afternoon
clinic with the volunteer services of
the doctors, given to this work, and
the District Nurse in attendance.
The secretary spoke of the desire OF
the part of the local association to
have joint board of health acting in
come ctlon with the city and county
health officers, and that the matter
had been placed before the Mayor and
City Council. and was now being held
| under advisement.
The secretary appealed for contin-
ued aid in the local movement tor the
Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis
and of the different branches, each OF
which needs nc ney to push its work
along
Miss Ann Doyle, the District Nurse,
read her report, covering thirteen
months work in Annapolis, Curtis
Bay and Wagner's Point (all includ-
ed in Anne Arundel county, The re.
port went into details, and showed
the magnificent work done by the To-
cal District Nurse. rhe number OF
visits paid was, l,127.
The District Nurse, in her report,
paid tribute to the District Nurses
| Aid Society, an organization Of young
girls who have materially helped her
in her work. The report was com
plete and comprehensive and showed
| the spledid amount of good work done
| by the faithful District Nurse. DR..
Fell thanked the ladies and gentle
men of Annapolis who heve in any
way helped he local branch, and the
| District Nurse ii furtherance of the
work.
The president, on motion which
was seconded and carried. appoint
ed the following nominating commit
tee: DR.. J. p. McComas, DR.. G. S.
Bell, Mrs. RoyalR Miss Riordan, and
| DR.. Parlett. This committee retired
to an adjoining committee room sn6
returned, presenting the officers
names of the last years board was
nominated. These officers are headed
by DIR. Fell, president, three vice
presidents, three secretaries and the
Farmers National Bank as treasurer,
with a council of seventy-five mem
bers.
DIR. Fe II spoke of the matter of
printing the report which is expected
to be issued next week. DR.. Fell in
troduced DR.. II. Barton Jacobs, presi-
dent of the State Association, who
gave an interesting practical talk.
DR.. Jacobs congratulated the peo-
pie of Annapolis on the goJd work
done and of the indications of sctivi-
ty and interest along the line of local
work. tuberculosis, be said, is per-
manently a local evil. No other dis
tant city can help another. Only
seven counties in Maryland have un-
dertsken the work of fighting tuber-
culosi., and all with good results.
DR.. Jacobs said the State has han
died the white tube rcular patients
well, aud prov ded sanatoris for
them. It has now 400 beds at Sa-
byllasville, an ample accommodat ion
| for the white patients, but there is
so far no provision for the colored tu-
berculosis patients. The story of tu-
berculosis is an interesting one. The
disease is q very old one, as shown by
the mummies of Egypt and the pre-
historic bones which showed tubercul-
osis. Every hunchbsck is so because
OF tuberculosis of the spine, said Or.
Jacobs. He spoke of the prevalence
of smallpox in the sixteenth aud sew
euteenth centuries, and the fiVbt
against il, but not until Koch can
along in 1889 had there been any gen.
eral knowledge of the disease tuber-
culosis, and only in the past ten
wears in Maryland hiss the work Of
prevention and cure been under