Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-13
OUTLINES PLAN FOR FIGHT 0N
 TUBERCULOSIS
Working Men and Women Must Be Interested, Says
 Dr.. c. J. Hatfield.

Washington, May 12.-Plans for the extension of the anti-tuberculosis campaign among the workingmen and women of the country were outlined by pr. Charles J. Hatfield, the eXecu- tive secretary of the National As sociation for the Study and Preven- tion of Tube- culosis, in an address before the sociological section of the association here today.
 Dr. Hartfield said
 Local tuberculosis relief associa- tions among the working men and women of this country have for the most part taken four forms: those in which the employees and the em- more or less fixed basis; those in which the employers only have con- tributed; those in which the working men have appealed to the general community for the establishment of a sanatcrium; and those in which the labor unions have. controlled the work for the relief Of fellow members. There are besides these four forms of organization the large number of general benefit associations in shops and stores, and the splendid work of the large international unions such as the typographical, printing pressmen. rhotoengravers, cigarmakers and others.
 Interest ef Workingmen Required.
 '',n recent study made by the Ma tional association, organization of the four tvpes mentioned were carefully studied in such cities as Hartford, New Haven and Meriden, Conn. Wor- chester. Mass, Albany, Brooklyn and Buffalo, N Y., and Newark, N. J. From the experience of these organi- zations plan where the employer contributes everything and simply ar- ranges for a limited stay of his men in a sanatorium, as is done in Wor- Cester, seems to be undesirable. Another plan which cannot be com mended very highly is one in which the bulk of effort is spent on the establishment of q sanatorium. In the first of these two plans. no provision is made for cooperation with the workingmen. which seems to be vital to the success of any tuberculosis re- lief organization. In the second. the establishment and maintenance of sanatoriumS appears to be too great a drin on the limit9d private resources of tho working men. Such effort should rather be encouraged and in sisted upon as a Legitimate expendi- lure from the public purse.
 ''In Hartfo- and other Connecticut cities 2. form of organization has grown up in which the workers con- tribute whatever they are able to a free tuberculosis bed fund, and the employers generally equal the joint contribution of .hei. employees. This money is then used in treatment of tuberculous men and women in state sanatoriums, so that by offerlns treatment at reduced rates, the state also in effect contributes share.
 Every Town Should Organize.
 "The National association urges that in every industrial city and town some special effort be made to organ ize the working men and women Tn the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Thls organization should preferably be under control and leadership of the local, central, anti-tuberculosis as sooiation and should have the follow ing features:
 "A plan of collection of funds which would bring contributions both from employees and from em- ployers
 "A system of periodic medical ex- animation so arranged that it would discover and control early cases ot tuberculosis and other diseases, and that it would also provide for the suitable employment of the conva- lescent worker.
 "A division of responsibility which would throw much of the care or re- lief of the tuberculous working men upon the shoulders of tine special organizations of the men themselves. 1
 The opportunity to collect statis- 1 tical material should be recognized and the working men themselves