Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-14
.CO-0PE RATION IS
URGED FOR FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Joint Action by Employers and
Employees Is Urged by
Speaker Before National
Association,


Washington May H. - Plans
for the extension Of the anu-tubercu-
losis campaign among the working
men and women Of the country were
outlined by DR. Charles j. Hatfield,
the executive secretary Of the Nation
al Association for the Study and Pre-
yention Of tuberculosis in an address
before the sociological section of tho
association here today
Dr Hatfield said
Local tuberculosis relief associa-
tons among the working men and
women Of this country have, for the
mdst part, taken four forms; those in
which the employees and the employer
have both contributed on more or
less fixed basis; those i'm which the
employers only have contributed;
those In which the working men have
appealed to the general community
for the establishment Of a sanatorium,
and those in which the labor unions
have controlled the work for the re-
lief of fellow members There are
besides these four forms OF organiza-
ton the large number Of general BEN
eft associations in shops and stores.
ana the splendid work of the large
international unions, such as the Typ
ographical, Printing Pressmen, Pho
-Engravers, Cigarmakers, and 9TH
ers.
In recent study made by the Ma
ttonal association, organizations Of the
four types mentioned were carefully
studied in such cities as Hartford, New
Haven and Meriden. Conn. Worces-
ctr, Mass; Albany Brooklyn and Buff
falo, n. Y. and Newark, \. j. From
The experience Of these organizations
plan where the employer contrib
ntes everything and simply arranges
for a limited stay of his men in a
sanatorium, as is done in Worcester,
seems to be undesirable Another
plan which cannot be commended very
highly Is one in which the bulk of eff
fort is spent on the establishment of
a sanatorium. In the first of these
two plans, no provision is made for
cooperation with the wOrkingman,
which seems to be vital TO the success
of any tuberculosis relief organization.
In the second. the establishment and
maintenance of a sanatorium appears
to be too great q drain on the limited
private resources Of the working men.
such effort should rather be encour-
aged and insisted upon as legitimate
expenditure from the public purse
In Hartford and other Connecticut
cities a fofm of organization has
grown up in which the workers con
tribute whatever they are able to a
free tuberculosis bed fund and tho
employers generally equal the joint
contribution Of their employees. This
money is then used in treatment Of
tuberculous men and women in state
sanatoria so that by offering treat
ment at reduced rates, the state also.
in effect contributes a share.
The National association urges that
in every industrial city and town some
special effort is made to organize the
working men and women in the anti
tuberculosis campaign. This organic
alton should preferably be under con-
troll and leadership of the local. cen
trail. anti-tuherculosis association and
should have the following features.
"a plan OF collection of funds which
would bring contributions both from
employees and from employers.
"A system Of periodic medical OK
so arranged that it would
discover and control early cases OF tu-
berorlosis and other diseases. and that
it would also provide for the suitable