Newark post., 1915-12-08
HEADQUARTERS OFED.
UCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
tuberculosis Week Being Oh
served


served
Tuberculosis Week." December
6-12, inclusive, is being observed
in Delaware. The chief aim in the
observance of this week is to get
the general public interested in
the movement looking toward the
prevention of tuberculosis to the
extent that more persons in need
of the attention given to tubercu-
lar patients at the clinics may be
induced to visit the dispensaries.
This goal is being kept in mind
throughout the week. The fact is
being brought to the attention of
the public by posters-repreduc-
tions Of a water color painting rep
resenting the Blue Hen and her
chicks chasing the White Plague
from Delaware.
The store of N. Snellenburg &
Co., at Seventh and Market streets,
Wilmington, is headquarters for
the workers. The firm has given
large window space to a display
which will include two tubercu-
losis maps, one of Wilmington, and
one of the State, showing existing
conditions; water-color paintings,
explained by appropriate verses
(shown for the first time publicly
for this occasion) as we'll as many
pictures of model shacks, outdoor
sleeping quarters, etc.
During the week free medical
examinations for tuberculosis will
be made in Wilmington by several
doctors who have volunteered
their services. They include: Drs.
Robert Tomlinson, Bernard Nc
Entee, George C. McElfatrick, H.
c. Hickman, John Fisher, and
P. R. Smith. The examinations
will be made only during the after
noon and evening Office hours.
The regular clinic hours during
the week will be: DR.. S. M. Zion,
on Tuesday evening, DR. .Conwell
Banton, Wednesday afternoon for
colored patients; DR.. Victor Nah,
Thursday afternoon; DR.. Albert
Robin, chief of staff, Saturday af-
ternoon.
The regular patients of the dis
pensary are manifesting a great
deal of interest in trying to bring
new patients. who need attention,
to the dispensary during the week
and those in charge of the observ-
ance hope that the general public
will manifest it's interest in the
same manner.
Through manifold channels very
excellent literature pertaining to
the aims and accomplishments of
the anti-tuberculosis movement
will be widely distributed to lodges
and societies of all kinds. Next
Saturday afternoon the Boy Scouts
of Wilmington will assist in the
distribution of this literature on
the street and outside of the indus
trial plants. The Young Mems
Christian Association and the store
of N. Snellenburg and Co. will be
stations at which the Scouts will
obtain the literature.
On Friday afternoon of this
week, the playlet called, "The
Friends of HEALTH" in which
about thirty children take part,
will be presented at the Y. w. C.
A. building, Wilmington. This
play points a moral relating to
tuberculosis uplift.
It is hoped and expected that
the public will take a great inter-
est in the observance of the week
end will lend their aid to the work
ers in fighting the dread disease,
tuberculosis.
Arrangements are being made by
the Anti-Tuberculosis Society to
show pictures on various health
subjects on screens in front of
the newspaper Offices during the
week. The slides for this purpose
will be secured from the United
States Health Service and will in
clude such pictures as those per-
tanning to Indian housing condi-
tions. the United States health ex-
hibit at the Panama-Pacific Expo.
sition, conditions pertaining to
milk supply and relating to the
anti-tuberculosis work in general