Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-09-25
TUBERCULOSIS
CAMPAIGN FOR
FALL IS ON
LEADERS IN WARFARE AGAINST
WHITE PLAGUE GATHER FOR
AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
FIVE SECTIONAL CONFERENCES
WITH EVERY STATE REPRESENT
Ed WILL BE HELD.

New York. Sept. 25.-The fall cam
palgn against tuberculosis lin the United
states will begin next week. when two
big conferences of experts viii hc held.
Al indianapolis. Ind. and III pa>o. Ter.
the leaders III the great warfare against
the white plague will gather for confer
enccs where reports. plans and aims of
4 long mp hill battle Will ~ dis u>>cd.
At the five sectional conferences that
viii hc held this fail. nearly every state
will ~ represented. and ID IN estimated
that more than 100000 persons are III
rcctly interested in the tuberculosis
fight in this country.
More than -2d.GUO.uUO was spent last
wear in the campaign az inst taher uil
SIS ~ the United States. New York state
alone spent over five million. Illinois
was next ia inc with S2.325.00 PcnnSyl
vania expended over two million. Mas
SachHSrttS over \ million and \ half.
and Colorado was fifth with an eNpcndi
tUrr of S>i>.On
The burden MI institutional care uf the
cnn>umptivc IL being shifted from the
private purse 10 the general public rlr>"
acc riding tn statistics |rnlur.lrd M, the
National Association fur thr STUDY und
Prevention IF tuberculosis. or the
twenty million spent during 1919. ri~
per crit was derived from rIhli- funds
either federal. stale. county ~ municipal
m compared with FIR per cent DID 1000
II Y institutional -rr ANA treatment iu
hospitals and Sauatoria. appr NimatclN
~ll .3un.0bn was expended i'm 1911. thu
other three million being devoted tn thr
operation ~ anti tuberculosis a~S>ncia
tlon>. the 0prn air movement. and ctuoa-
tIHg the public tu thc extent nf th- NAV
ease.
That for every tuberculosis death ten
more people are infected. IN the state
mcnt of Dr. Halliday sutherland II thr
-. Narlycb0nc tuberculosis Di>pcr>a
ry. speaking last nrrcmhrr at the Ed
iuhurgh Congress WI the II val Institute
II Pablo Health. pr. Sutherland char
NtcriZcd the situation a. "a story Df
human fullv and WI mans rrnrlt, wv
man. Dr. Sutherland continued: The
turhid stream of infection flows through
the highways and hvWayS M our cities
Infection passes from m1u Ell man. from
husband 10 VIII" and from parent o.
child. The eminent physician carried
the picture further hv showing " " th.
man once inf" tel i handkerchief IN The
economic struggle There I'M less none,
nnd less food The infected wruau i~
loss able "a l,1k after her horn" anj
children. So they 4i az the ~lum arl fr
the O~Ncrrruvdin1 the ~ru>Hriirrv sur
re- 'ndiue> the closed windows ne rhran
c-; food in the dearest murkr, rli iu.
Hucncr> MAT ARE best fitted tu fln INV
disease
"rhirty per cen; of cur English houl
children. said Dr ~uthrrl iul. ~>h N
the disease in it~ Seeding stage. ~ivt,
per cent If The adult pppilatiou have
hnnr affected"
The saving factor thlt experience ha~
evolved. SAYS DR.. Sutherland K, The
inrcncuioSiS h%iencnsarv. providing IN
treatment in ever, STAGE WI The disease
The early eases do not and viii not >ccL
advice. 50 the specialist fIIlov> IN,
known ease IN The home. There thr rnr
facts are examined ana the discas,
fought. Tho home j. rccrcatcd. Even an,
mcanc>t M houses can have the window,
open. the walls painted instead NJ nv.
rcrcd. the filthy carpets ami ~nuuging,
removed.
hnotlcr interesting phase WY th- wv
h'rcui"> fight IN ErIopc - Tic set"
llcut of tnf Lundouzy. lr N rf N,
Faculty of Medicine. at f'nriS.whc fore
casts that m" war win contribute w
least 20.0G0 tuhcrcul >iS patients 4,
France alone. Contrary tn thr nwnuIuI
belief that the hArdSripS uf rampaigiu.
strengthened mcn. Prof. Landouzr
shows how the terrific fatigue vhirl
soldiers on the firing line must cndur,
lc'ycS its permanent marks.