The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-11
MEDICAL EXAMINATION
is FREE TO ALL Corners
Anti Tu bexCulosis Association VIII
Have Six Stations In Opera
tion Tomorrow,
WAGE FIGHT ON WHITE PLAGUE
Last Of such Tests Showed Fifty Out
OF Two Hundred Examined Affected.
Location of Zach of the Dispen-
sRrie&-

Free medical examination Will be
provided on Wednesday, at several
conveniently located stations for all
those who apply. the arrangements
having been made by the Anti-Tuber-
culosia Association of Richmond as
part of It's campaign against this dread
disease In this city. Last year, OF
about 200 persons examined. nifty
we're found to be infected in more or
less serious form. and this large per-
centage Ia an indication Of the wide
spread prevalence of the plague in
this community. The Importance of
submitting to an examination by all
those who In the least suspect that
they are victims has been emphasized
by the students from the Medical Col
lego of Virginia during their educa-
tional talks in many of the large
manufacturing plants OF Richmond on
several days of last week, and it is
confidently expected that scores of
men and women will take advantage
OF the opportunity offered 10 them
without cost to find out their real
rendition.
There will be six stations. scattered
! throughout the city, one in each OF
the health department districts into
which Richmond is divided At each
station one OF Or. Flannagan's nurses
will be In charge, their assistants be-
ling from the Nurses Settlement, and
from the various hospitals. The ex-
Iamination will be conducted by diff
ferent physicians who are giving their
services for tn o. work.
| The places and hours of exanina-
ton are as follows:
City dispensary, Twelfth and Clay
streets, between II and / o'clock.
/ Meade Memorial parish house,
Twelfth and Decatur streets, TO 7
P. NJ.
Nicholson school. $40 Nicholson
street. Fulton. to I F. NJ.
st. Andrews mission. 626 South
Beividere street, s to P, NJ
House OF Happiness, 71b Noshy
street, Church Hill to p. Nj.
/ Friends Coiored orphanags. 112
! Charity street.
The location OF tubercular victims
and the supervision of their cases af-
forwards is one OF the worthy things
accomplished by proceeds from the
sale of Red Cross Christmas seals.
now on sale In many stores through
out the city. An earnest campaign
has been conducted this fall to arouse
the people OF Richmond to the seri-
BUSINESS of the menace, and widespr cad
interest has been manifested. The re-
sponses TO several hundred personal
letters of appeal sent out to repre-
sentative men and women In Rich
mond have been most gratifying, the
total received within the first two or
three days coming close to the $500
mark, with favorable replies pouring
in by the scores in every mail, The
children of several of the Sunday
schools are in a friendly rivalry In
the campaign to sell the largest num-
Der of seals, and the returns from
this source already amount to several
hundred dollars. But after all these
special efforts. the bulk of support
and cooperation must come from the
: masses of the people who can be
reached only in public appeals Tets
, buying Of "a few seals by each frdf-
vidual for placing on Christmas let
ters and packages, bills and checks
r and all forms OF mail matter, will
cause a great food of dollars to rol
, in, to be used In waging an increased
= and more vigorous warfare agains
the great white plague.