The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-01-19
:, ,v:;l,.l,ly open FEB.3
TO STAY RAVAGES
OF WHITE PLAGUE
IN BELTRAMI co.
Will Be Located in Security Bank
Building; DR.. Levy of State
Commission Interested.
NO CHARGE WHATEVER FOR
DIAGNOSIS OF CONDITION
Bemidji Physicians Cooperate in
Project; X.Ray Will Be Used;
| -, .' Outline of Plans.

A tuberculosis clinic is to be OPEN
ed in Bemidji on Saturday, February
8, by the Sanatorium commission Of
the Lake Julia Sanatorium, to take
the place of an admission bureau for
the sanatorium. Diagnosis and
treatment is to be free for all resi-
dents of Beltrami, Hubbard and Koo-
chiching counties. This Is but one
Of the steps in the campaign insti-
tuted all over the United States
working towards the eradication Of
the Great White Plague.
The clinic is primarily for dag
nosis of doubtful or suspicious cases
of tuberculosis, particularly in those
infected individuals who are unable
to pay. It will also treat all forms
of tuberculosis in infected individ-
uals who are unable to enter the
sanatorium because of limited capac-
ity or are unwilling themselves to
enter an institution. Another i'm
portant measure to be followed is
the education of the infected, how
best to care for themselves, teaching
them the communicability of the dis
ease and the methods to pursue in
general to prevent the transmission
to others.
Nurse Will Assist.
An important part of the program
to be followed will be the detection
and elimination Of early active cases
amongst the school children. Miss
B. Burns, the school nurse, whose
services the Bemidji. board of edu-
cation has kindly offered, will assist
materially in this respect. She is
we'll acquainted with the school chill
dren and knows which ones are sus-
picious or appear to be unhealthy.
She will also assist at the clinic.
Individuals found to be infected
will be urged to have the other men,
bers of the family examined, and in
this way number of early cases will
undoubtedly be discovered and treat
ed, that otherwise might go on to
the far advanced stage before seeking
treatment. In this one way alone
tremendous amount of suffering can
be saved, and early cases given a
chance to live, who otherwise would
be too far advanced to be cured.
Later Benefits.
Patients discharged from the
sanatorium will be able to return
frequently for denomination, and
thus be able to follow their condi-
tions, receive advice regarding
change of mode Of living if required,
or to be Immediately re-admitted for
further care and treatment if the
old lesion is found becoming active
again.
A large part of the success Of this
clinic will depend upon the busy
practioneers sending in their doubt
full diagnosis, and referring their
poor for treatment.
DR.. Levy Interested.
DR.. M. Levy, associate medical di-
rector of the advisory commission
of the Minnesota State Sanatorium,
will take charge of this clinic for
the present, on Saturday mornings
between 1920 and IL o'clock. in the
Security Bank building. If the at
tendance warrants it second clinic
day will be established on Tuesdays.
Diagnosis and treatment will be mod
ern in every respect Tuberculin will
be judiciously used where indicated
for diagnostic purposes. One of the
local physicians has kindly consented
to the use of his X-ray machine for
diagnosing doubtful cases.