The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-09-08
zoo Dead Men, to Hold
a Reunion on Health Farm
er All Rules for the Cure Of Diseases, Every One Would Have
Been In His Grave Years Ago, But Owing 10 Campaign Of Tuber-
culoss Society They Are Well and Thriving.

have been just as dead ms the Prophet
Isaiah years and years ngo. Perhaps
herr and there one might have ne
come 80 weak from Illness that his
0mpassionnte employer would have
fired him rather Than have his heart
torn each recurring morning by look
ing at the sufferer. And the sick
man might have been forced 10 live
out or doors and drink milk and sleep
In the sun. and therefore get well.
HUI the chances are hat each man
would hnve mianfuiiy done his duty
until he could work no longer. Tn y
he woul have gone 20 bed and died.
Seli Health to Americans.
This Gaylord Farm In one Of the oN-
hibiis In the campaign embarked ON
by the National Tuberculosis a%ssocla-
tiol. In It's effort to sell health 90
Americans. Ten years ago Or David
Il. Lyman tool charge Of the farm
Just sSOO 900 has been spent on it.
that Govern every penny That has been
laid n for any purpose-hut Dr. iy-
man figures that the state Of Con-
nectieut has profitcd by u.
He has Kept careful tab on his
%graduates and their earning powers.
lie nncs they have added something
like -. 600. 600 TO tn wealth OF the
country since they were turned out
cured. That pays. he thinks. even II
the elimination Of a certain numbCr
OF state liabilities aud the decrease "
the total sun Of u"nhappiness were
not taken into account.
Ninety per rent Of the graduates
who went 10 Gaylord Farm in the
early stages OF tuberculosis arc Ia
good health after ten years at work
That percentage cannot be Cqualled
outside Of graduate ranks. II the nr-t
thousand men passing a given corner
49,. A....IH .LH 90 ...NH. NANwmH -
IN not likely that 9OO OF them would
be alive and vigorous ten years later
Sixty per rent Ut the moderately adj
vanCed cases were restored 20 health
at the farm. and 80 per cent even Of
the CsinE re turned out well men.
] That h a statement OF literal fact. An
advanced" case OF tuberculosis Is IL
dying case. N the disease Is left to It.
self Iiut Dr. Lyman saved one la
each ten.
How Funds Are Di.tributcl.
IN q short time the National Tuher-
Culusis association Will begin It's an
nuul campaign for money by the sale
Of Rcd cross seals. Ninety-two per
cent Of the money received is eN-
pended for the prevention n cure OF
tuberculosis in the states where tho
per cent goes to the association for
the necessary expenses.
one thing the association h. trying
10 hammer into the national skul Is
that tuberculosis b. durable. ~ tn d
cure Is given q uhun"e. Another Is
that during the period or Americas
participation In the war more han
twice as many Americans were killed
hy r y. as by the G'rmnnNs. Ana
every r H. death was ~preVentuhle.
The ughi against r. o. Is gathering
strength. when the y. r. \. began
York consumption was regarded ns
u fate rather than as a ais are Pep-
pie were marked" by H. II the UNI
fortunate began To cough and show "a,
high coior la m" afternoon his friends
began To- think what thcy wuuld wcar
az his funeral NOWADAYS all states
hav' unti-T. u. associations. 70 library
has been published on tuberculosis
aud its 'uTr rs Il result of the re-
search work conducted. scores Of
takers who traded Tn death huN' been
driy N out OF business, GOO hospitals
AND saratorin with a bed cupacity Of
a. 600 have been established the
open air has been sold" to Anne
rinas and half % million children sts
enlisted IN "a crusade against the ais
ease.
I,csuit> In "IIcaith Town"
That is not all the y T. A. has
done. only a few of the high lightS
are SHOWN. thelN Nlllt Mlllt " NnNr
something s%triktngly. II found q
hacker and made birmingham. Mass.
u health own" Some pcopl' did
not thing community work paid The
-. T. A. and the people of Framing
ham hove shown That bN an annual
expenditure OF so cents per head Tor
health ~ % death rat' can bc d%rcrc1s-
ed, In birmingham the tu~bcrCulusi>
death rate has been rat from f2i
pcr one hundred thouHand To seventy.
BEFORE the health town" expert
men WAS begun. cightN-onc babies
dicd 10 the thousand born iu FRAN
inrh1m. After u year Of being
healthy only siNtN-tWo babies died to
the Thousand born.
And the y. r \. Inns started a T.
a. college In Tucson. Mould-bo mat
REGULATES are Obliged to prove hat
they have tuberculosis. Then they
may embark on a four years cours'
Of study In which They may be fitted
for almost any profession. The
schools Of mines and Of engineering
are among the finest I'm the country
During the stay ut schools the student
may lodge for 81 % month. and board
Tor S22.6O Soldier 7. rs. by the way.
arr paid from $50 to $3.50 per month
hN the government. for tuberculosis
In CluSsed as q major disability
The conclusion OF the y. r. \. is
that r. 49, is like q good many oth"r
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