Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-07-25
HOSPITAL AS A
REAL MEMORIAL
Suggestion Made That Tazewell
Erect Sanitorium for Treat
ment of Tuberculosis, Pre-
valent in the County.

suggestion comes to us from
Raven to erect II memorial TO Tazc-
well County soldiers in shape of n
hospital Tor the treatment Of tuber
culosis patients of Tn2ewell County.
This suggestion is embodied in n lci-
ter received from Mr.. C. B. Neel.
manager of the Raven Red Ash Coal
Co., and is worthy of serious consid-
Grafton by the people of Tazewell
County. MIR. Nccl Says:
AS II memorial to our soldiers and
snilors, why not do something that
viii be of real value to ALL our
people for ages? Anyone looking
upon the palid faces of people af-
iiicted with tuberculosis, and giving
the matter serious thought, am
sure Will agree that something ought
to be done. Who knows what home
VIII pc invaded of what young life
surely can.
why not raise the money among
our people and build place where
thc afflicted may he treated for this
mnindy and the people educated
against it?"
FOR several years past this paper
mas urged the erection of hospitnl
Mt the county farm for tho treat
ment OF tuberculosis patients, but
ench timc the matter was presented
to the Board of Supervisors il was
not given The consideration it de-
served. II may not be generally
known, but there are hundreds of
cases of consumption in TuzcweU
county, and practically nothing beinp
done to check it's ruvngcs. People
are dying every year from the di-
Seasc when IL could be prevented.
Young people nre being ruined physi-
cally Tor life by the spread of tho
terrible plague. Children are being
born OF consumptivc parents, and nre
thereby susceptible to tho disease.
Cases of tuberculosis are scattered
throughout the county, in every town
anu hamlct, and nothing ut nll being
done to prevent its spread. Babies
are born in homes where for gene
rntions past their forcbcnrs havo
been effected with the disease.
In the examinations of the men
Tor the army II great many, appar-
emily strong and stalwart men, were
found to have symptoms of the di-
sensc, and others developed pro-
nounced cases after reaching the
army camps, and were returned to
their homes to spread the disease to
their children and neighbors. What
nrc we going to do about il? Will
we permit the condition to pass un-
noticed, and let our neighbors and
our friends become infected and pass
the dreaded disease on to the next
generation, or will we make some ef-
fort to stamp il out? The men of
TaZcwcll county who have money
owe it to their grand old county to
lend hand. You are your brothers
keeper. Stop in your mad ruch for
gold and "think of the other fellow
for n minute.
1t will take money to erect the
kind of building that razewell county
should erect, and whole heap OF
il to maintain il and caro- for the
patients. Could anything moro last
ing or beneficial, or n moro bcauti-
ful tribute be paid to the great army
of men of Tazcwcll county who help
ed To make the world safe for you,
many of whom died in their efforts,
than the erection Of memorial hos
pital ut some suitable point in Taze-
well county, commemorating this
great service and sacrifice.
Without further ado, the Clinch
Valley News hereby subscribcs the
sum of 500 towards the object out
lined above.