The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-05-11
AuTI-TUDElcUL0S
COMMITTEE FORMED
Tho Associated Charities Has BEGUN
a Three Year Campaign Against
Consumption.

mainly are walking the streets of Min.
neapolis today, frequently the thea
tiers and motion picture houses, at.
tending school, toiling in shops and
factories and offices, and scattering
the germs of consumption wherever
they go. There is no room for them
in the sanatoria and hospitals; there
is no money to give them the care they
need in order to be cured and prevent.
ed from injecting others.
In order to better this state of af-
fairs, which, in city as prosperous as
Minneapolis, may justly be called dis.
graceful, the Anti-Tuberculosis COM
mittee of the Associated Charities has
drawn up program for three years.
campaign against consumption. This
program provides for the most agrees
sive and far-sighted measures that
have ever been adopted in this country
for the eradication of disease, and it
has been endorsed by the most import
ant racial and social groups in the
city. The first task, of course, will
be to arouse the civic and state au-
thorities and the general public to the
urgent need for vastly increased funds
to carry on the great work of proven
ton and cure. The required amount
of money once secured, it will be ex-
pended according to carefully plan
ned budget.
The Anti-Tuberculosis committee,
with Paul l.. Benjamin at it's head, will
undertake as its share of the three
years work, agitation for a sufficient
number of beds for the sick, an open
air camp for working girls, a proven
forum for delicate children, dispen-
sary at one of the settlement houses,
the publication of health bulletins,
symposia on health subjects, investi-
cation of factories, lodging houses,
laundries, hotels, etc., improvement of
working conditions, preparation for
the care of soldiers returned tubercu-
lous; interesting men running for Of
five in the cause of civic health; the
passage of a public health bill, en-.
forcement of the Housing Code and the
Milk Ordinance, open-air crusades
among children, the appointment of
teacher of handicraft at Glen Lake
Sanatorium, the creation of Trade
Union committees as subcommittee
Of the Anti-Tuberculosis committee,
the appointment of social service
worker for the health department, the
obtaining of further financial provi-
sion from the Tax Levy Board. :,
In addition to all these new efforts,
the neighborhood health exhibits,
newspaper publicity, and lantern-slide
and lecture service for Industrial work.
ers, will be prosecuted as earnestly as
ever. Such organizations as the Health
Department and City HOSPITAL, the
County Commissioners, the Civic and
Commerce Association, and the Gen.
trail Department of Social Agencies,
have, as usual, shown themselves
eager to cooperate in the work of
making Minneapolis the healthiest city
in the country. They will divide among
themselves such tasks as those of
opening a home for cOnvalescents, a
day camp for the sick, and second
open-air school,; securing health in
surance, health bill, and $4,000
worth of bonds for Glen Lake SAM
forum; finding employment for dis
charged patients; adding more nurses
and a social service worker to the
tuberculosis division of the health de-
partment; employing additional hous-
ing and milk inspectors; inaugurating
an anti-spitting campaign, furnishing
an adequate number of beds at the
State Sanatorium, and inviting the
United States Public Health Service to
make survey of the city.
Among the other measures recon-
mended, but not yet planned in detail,
are the establishment of a Tubercu-
losis fellowship at the University of
Minnesota, travelling dispensary to
carry relief to consumptives in the
rural districts, the appointment of
full-time medical man, and the estab-
lishment of an institute at the univer-
sity, at which experts would conduct
short courses on the various phases
of the disease. This campaign will be
prosecuted with two approved and ag-
gressive weapons-publicity and CO.
operation. Arrangements are being
made to keep its progress constantly
before the attention of the public,
which, in its turn, is earnestly asked
to give all the aid in its power to
ensure the successful outcome of the
battle against the greatest enemy to
health that turks within this city; the
enemy which last year took toll here
OF sos lives; the enemy which seizes
with equal ruthlessness upon the mid