Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-12-05
LED CROSS CHRISTMAS
SEALS SAVE KDDIES
5oys and Girls Gain Health At Mary
land tuberculosis Associations
Preventorium At CIal-
borne.

$3.50 WOAI away hao
to work all day
in a factory to keep Betty and
ier two baby brothers, Tom, aged on,
nd Jerome, who Ia 4, from going hun.
ry to bed
Last summer, Betty, leading Tom
nd Jerome by the hands, arrived at
Claiborne on the ferry from Annapolis
md pretty soon the three Of them
we're Joining in group of merry
Joungsters playing mulberry bush"
n the sandy beach OF Eastern Bay.
Fhe trio were among the patients who
during the past months have enjoyed
he benefits OF the preventorium ope-
rated by the Maryland tuberculosis
association at the Claiborne Cottages.
twenty children have been treated at
he cottages and all Of them have
hown marked improvement.
The preventorium was opened sew.
raj months ago as place where chill.
rem from to II, boys and girls,
ON all parts of the state, who had
cen seriously exposed to or were, for
lrying reasons pre-disposed to tuber.
llosis, or suffering from mal-nutri
lion or chorea, could live practically
out of doors and get the treatment
eeded to prevent the threatened de
relopment Of tuberculosis.
SO very successful has been the ex.
pertinent that it is hoped to make the
Claiborne Cottages a permanent part
ct the work of the Maryland Tubercu
osis Association. The cottages have
closed because there is no fund to
keep them opened longer. The work
OF the Maryland tuberculosis Asso
citation, like that Of all the 1000 affll
lated organizations of the National
tuberculosis Association, depends
largely for its financial support on the
sale OF the Red Cross Christmas seals
This year the seals were ready for
distribution on December J.. Through
out the entire country an intensive
campaign to show the menace of the
disease, that yearly takes a death toll
in the United States more than three
times 40 great as the number of lives
lost by the American armies on the
battlehelds Of Europe, is under way
To finance this fight, more than a
half billion of the little Red Cross
Christmas seals must. be sold Mary
lands quota is $125,O0O worth Of the
seals. This will enable the state TO
carry on and develop its work and u
provide for the operation of the sClai.
borne Preventorium all the year round.
At present there is no place. whore
Maryland children can be given their
chance to win back the health lost
through no fault Of their own.
Every seal is penny's worth of
prevention and cure The stamps
this year are unusually pretty, done
in three colors, and are Christmassy
The officers of the Maryland Tubercu-
losis Association, which will be in gen.
eral charge of the seal sale in Mary.
land are DR.. Henry Barton Jacobs,
president; George A. Colston. treas
urer; Joseph S. Ames, secretary; A. e.
Sinks, executive secretary, and Arthur
Ellt Hungerford, campaign director.
COOpSldtihS III INC OISdulLdllOu Ol
the work are the local tuberculosis as.
ISOLATION Of Allegany, Anne Arundel,
Carroll, Dorchester, Frederick. Gar
rett, Hartford, Howard Kent, Mont
gomery, Queen Anne, Somerset, Wash
lngton, Wicomico, Prince George,
Cecil, Charles and Caroline counties.
In Talbot, Baltimore. st. Mary's,
Worcester and Calvert, in which there
are no permanent organizations, vol
unteer committees are being formed
20 put over this special piece of work.
In the state last year, 2.9il persons
lied needlessly of tuberculosis. The
tuberculosis death rate in Maryland
Is "A per cent higher than the aver
lge death rate from the disease in the
country as whole. The record is not
one of Maryland to be proud Of. It
ian be reduced by educational and pre-
ventive work. Every seal will help.