New Britain herald., 1919-07-01
OPPOSE PRINTING
 NAMES OF PATIENTS
A. Buol Representing Local Anti.
 Tuberculosis Society |"

Hartford, July 1.-Protests against printing the names of tuberculous pa tients as "indigent poor were made at the conference of anti tuberculosis workers of the state, which was held at the State Capitol yesterday after noon. $. J. Lodge, president of the Bristol Employees Tuberculosis Relief Association, said that dread of publi- cation of their names as paupers haunted Worllingmen who became af- f1icted with the disease and who were forced to resort to town aid for help while ill. He called attention to the practical and timely aid which She Bristol and other Employees Tubercu~ lOsiS Relief Associations of the State were giving in making impossible such humiliation through illness of the factory workers of the State.
 Representing the New Britain Anti Tuberculosis Association, President Abra ham BuOl said that that city had taken means to prevent the publication of such names hy setting side q mu- nicipal tuberculosis relief fund,
 
 the city records, but who were desig- mated by proper Board of Health off, cials. George Bradley, representing the New Haven mployes Association, urged State and town action which will prevent the publication of such namea in the future Dr. Stephen J. Maher of New Haven, president of the State Tuberculosis Commission, under Whoss 1oI who of1iciatcd as the chairman, stat cd that the commission strongly urged such action and hoped that not only sclectmen of the various towns of the State, but tho State Legislature as we'll, would soon make it i'm possible for lists of persons receiving aid because they were tuberculosis patients to appear in town or State reorts.
 pr. David R. Lyman, superintendent of the Gaylord Farm Sanitorium at Wallngford and formerly president of the National Tuberculosis Association, praised the action of the State Com- mission in calling the tuberculosis workers of the State together and as- serted that the commission plans in developing the educational and preven- tive anti-tuberculosis work Of Connec- ticut were highly commendable He recommended that a superintendent of tuberculosis nursing for the State be appointed under the auspices of the com mission.
 For two hours the orsanization of the anti-tu berculosis work in the diff fercnt Connecticut towns and cities was discussed, tho speakers inc1udine DTS. Hooker and Hogan of the Hart ford Association; Henry D. Neale and William Fl. Sniffcn of Bridgeport, pr. L. X. Wilkes of the State Board of Health, Miss Anna Sheehan and Miss Mary Conlin of the New Haven Visit ing Nurses Association, Miss Anna F. Boyd of Bridgeport and Miss Sarah Carroll of New Britain. Miss Margaret Stack, superintendent of child vel. fare work in the State. spoke Of it's TO- lauOn 10 anti-tubercuiosiS work and for the Tuberculosis Commission. Hu bert NJ. Sedgwick of New Haven out lined plans for the Red Cross Seal Chr1stmas Drive. Superintendents Dinnan of the Merjden, Campbell of the Norwich, and Lynch of the Shelton Tuberculosis State Sanitoriums de- sCribed efforts which are being made to cooperate with the neighboring cities and towns in establishing dis pensaries and clinics and to organize the various communities in preventive .. anti-tuberCu loss work