South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-31
ASK LEGISLATURE
To AID IN FIGHT
Laws Needed to Stop Spread
OF Tuberculosis Recommend
Ell in Resolutions.

Resolutions asking the Indiana
measures that are now before the
/ Legislature which will assist in the
fight against tuberculosis were
adopted Wednesday morning by
/ delegates to the state convention Of
4 the Indiana Society for the Proven
/ ton Of Tuberculosis at the oliver
hotel Wednesday morning by dele
morning. The resolutions were made
/ the subject of talk on Much Need
: ed Legislation" 10y DR.. r. l. Sen
elected first vice president of the
organization.
The first bill which the legislature
has been asked 10 pass provides
/ that physicians be required TO
register all cases OF tuberculosis
with the board of health. DR.. Sen
| senich pointed out that this is
| necessary 10 reduce the prevalence
of the disease. Provisions that
counties be permitted 20 establish
county sanitariums if majority OF
the taxpayers desire this in a refer
endum vote were asked.
| Make Best Nurses.
/ It was pointed out in the resolu-
tivns that persons who have been
! tuberculosis patients and have re-
covered from the disease make the
! best nurses. owing to their practical
knowledge of cures, and the lesisla
ture was asked TO pass a oil pro-
viding for training courses for these
I people. DR.. Sensenich said that
] there were many intelligent patients
\ who recover and if they desired,
they should be trained as nurses by
the state.
state aid for isolated and small
counties i'm erecting sanitariuns
I aud in taking care of tuberculosis
patients was asked i'm the fourth
! resolution. The resolution said that
, under the present law a county SAN
| itarium was required to accept a
( patient from another county, plac-
ing an unfair burden upon a strange
community.
Members of the resolution COM
mittee. which was composed of DR..
| Sensenich. Dr. Will Ehrhardt OF
/ Greensburg, and Mrs. d. G. Ramsey
of Mt. Vernon, also presented reso-
buttons congratulating the local
committees on their work i'm
handling the convention.
Holds Drugs Are Useless.
Drugs are useless in the cure OF
tuberculosis patients. according TO
DR.. Alfred Henry of indianapolis.
the new president of the society
who talked Wednesday morning on
Home Treatment of tuberculosis. F."
The delegates were urged to forget
that there are drug stores and
pharmaceutical houses i'm handling
tuberculosis cases. He said that the
patient should be taught 10 depend
on only two things for his cure,
proper rest and fresh air
DIR Henry said that in many
cases il was folly to send a patient
TO a strange community in the
hopes that he may recover. He
pointed out that if patient wor-
ried about his condition or suffered
from hOmesicknesS, the cure would
be retarded.
The subject was discussed by Mrs.
Ella b. Kehrer of Anderson and
Mrs. ID. G. Ramsey of Mt. Vernon.
Other talks given in the morning
were: The Extension of Commun-
ity Nursing by Miss Gwynedd Web
! ster of Goshen. a Double Work by
Miss Charlotte NJ. Straszer of Peru.
and The Human Maintenance De-
partment in Industries" by DR.
Harry Mock Of Chicago.
Delegates at Luncheon.
Practically all of the delegates
attended the luncheon given at noon
At Healthwin hospital. the st. Joseph
county tuberculosis sanitarium. Fol
lowing the luncheon they were taken
through the building and over the
grounds by DR.. James A. Duggan,
superintendent of the institution.
Wednesday afternoons session
was scheduled TO begin at o'clock
with a talk on Establishing a
County Sanatorium" by George r.
: O'Brien of South Bend. The talk
was to be discussed by Or. Eric a.
Crull OF Fort Wayne. and Miss Mary
A Meyers of indianapolis. Mail
Sales OF Red Cross Seals was the
subject Of paper 10 be read by
Miss Mary NJ. Ogilvie of Evansville.
Mrs. William Gremmelspacher OF
iLogansport was TO talk on school
Sales of Red Cross Seals"
The convention will close this
evening with the directors and Of
dcers' dinner at the Oliver hotel at