The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-06-29
MAKE HARD FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
New Dispcnsary for Colorcd People
L. Opened nt 20 North Grccn-
wood Street
FREE CLINICS EACH WEEK
Culurcd Doctors and Cnlorsi Nurecs
Are In Charges Of All Patients
mud Direct Clinics Affairs.

A. uual Tulsa ia first and this
time lrs IN the way ot tubcr-
cuinHs dlel cl1ry operated oNclu.
sI,ry Tor the colorcd people and
located iurt on Archer. 1t Is the only
one IN Oklahoma.
Tho new nurse Mrs Emma Rob
iuaon. went into one house last week
and found negro woman ironing
d,othcg fur % white family. and lay
iug each piece ON the bed iu which
lay her husband, coughing and cN-
p.ctuTuUug. and in the last stages uf
c.mump Audc from the great
good tn hu derived by the colnrrd
race. ali others VIII bouofit from
tho campaign 20 educate ana tf1ln
Thorn iu treat ana prevent this dis
sr1sr
tn. now digprnsnry held its Nru
free clinic last Tuesday aud viii con.
uuuc tp hold them On Tuesday and
Thurad1y each week from 1870 To- 2
o'clock There are 10 afflicted ones
a.Ir1dF ludcNod with the nurse
Al Ia o'clock one night this week
tho nurse was called TO u woman
whose husband had abandoned her
10 0lc. HRuuE IN parting that there
wasn't any use in both of them dy-
ing 80 he was quilting The sick
woman had been allowed 10 alt - a
rocking chair al "a neiEhbor'a until
help could come, bat the uclghbOr
was afraid Of the disease and
wouldn't put her to bed. Tho slch
one was moved 10 sister I'm the
country and a part OF the 81 dnS
earned hN tho husband is mada 10
30 toward her support
Tuberculosis dlBpr uRury No 2 ms
the new one IL called. IL under the
supervision ~ the Tulsa tuberculosis
association, and the salary OF the
nurse and rent ~ the house. I76 nno
i25 month. respectively, are borne
by them. tplorcd doctors and the
coIorcd nurse, however. are In direct
charge. reporting through their rep
rcacniativc at the meeting OF the
general association once "a month
Dr. g. r. Smith was elected by a
joint meeting of the board OF direct.
ors and the colOred county medical
society 10 De In charge. Ito will at
tend every clinic. and In rotation one
out uf the following ~ doctors will
Hasis, each time. A. J. whitley.
president OF the colored medi.
cal association. IA. J. Watson,
u. A. Wnynes. J " Key. II, X. Rob
luson. H. +. Hridgewater. H. y.
Smith, a. ". Motley. H. NJ. Calvert,
J. Smitherman, Charles n wick |
ham, Wesley Jones. A. ]. Jackson
ana A. y. Rryant
Dr. II. T. Price and DR.. O. 4.
Flanagan, who have given their
services at the dlspensAry on FIJI
teenth street on clinic days. viii
visit. The new dlspcnsary regularly. !
ana Miss Bessie VI. Richardson,
nurse for the tuberculoria association
VIII often he there Miss Richard
son will attend To sending OF spu-
tum samples for examinations by the
state organization at Oklahoma city,
and all necessary N-ray examination.
Will be made at the original dispcn-
sary. Miss .ltichardson states that
as rule the negroes afflicted with
tuberculosis have such marked
cases that N-rBy pictures are not
needed. She also states that the ro-
distance power OF the colored race is
40 feeble against this germ that al
most the entire hope restH with edu-
eating them on how TO prevent tho
disease and not how To cure It. al
though there ls every chance In tho
aerly stages
Emma Robinson. elected nurse. 10
eeived her training at Polytechnic
hoapital I'm Philadelphia, she was
head nurse and In charge of the
Ahner i'm hospital At Hethel, n G.,
and came here from Nashville, Tenn.
whore she was employed In public
health nursing. Her husband IL Is
doctor and has removed here with
her.
Start Membership Drive
The board OF, directors for the new
venture Is composed OF the follow
ing physicians and men OF influence
In Tulsa among the Coiored popula-
ton, II. A. Gueat, president; Rev
Charles L. Ncthcrland, treasurer, =
II. Goodwin, pr. J. NJ. Key. Or n
+. Hridrewntcr, nr. n. a. Wnynes.
i Il. WUl1mH. Dr 4. j. whitley
W " =. burden. D., c. Z. Saith.
G. p. Gabe MIRA James CGcsry Nh
y W. NaCtdale. ", I. Sadlsr Or. +.
s TEoN psoa, and Mru, Emma Rob-
lnson
A membersh'p drive has boon In
UuEur1tcd, the ~ churches super.
NianE the work. Llch has cap
Sa.u IgG .ur .louteaarta The
u.lIal dollar yoay GlhorSh!p Will
~ ANA hlHaAaaH AHlAas "a hAAaA - hNN AENA
lrun4 ta.s source, the TliAl aSsocia-
tlun rNpncta n furnish material aid
In the form ~ eggs milk and other
nccrFglti"' Subscriptions obtained
hy the nurse from among her own
people have paid FOR most OF the
furnishings NJ the dispcnpry The
place consists ~ two large rooms,
the first waiting room furnished
t1s,rfully In new brown wicker and
desk and the other the cNnmiua-
ton room with equipment necessary
lu making tests Hluv and Whlto
check liUplruu covers both floors
dainty sash curtains hand az the VIM
dows and thv entire place s spot
Jess.
The building vna formerly a pho
toEuphDr.a r1''rr. Nud haas n large
panel window boz rn, examination
room that adds greatly 90 the work
Water is 90 he n.t .n pnl a telephone
promised uu fN, firsr uf July.
The work bon th.' section uf town
is said tu Dee handicapped hy she
lack uf svyNflEr unI MOO atru,t cars
The wells have n..n found tp Doe am
eurfHrr one. uGny uf which are only
and S feet d,yp, and those who
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