Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-13
SHOWS NEED OF HARD FIGHT ON
 WHITE PLAGUE

tuberculosis is bred in all parts of the country, including the south west" says MT. John Tombs, regional secretary for the National Tuber- culosis association, who is in Bisbee in connection with the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals. Mir. Tombs, whose territory comprises the seven southwestern states. Arizona, Califor- mia, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado, came to Bis bee yesterday to confer with Mrs. Ger aid Sherman, chairman of the local sale campaign.
 Mr Tombs supports his statement that not all. native cases of tuber- culosis in the southwest section are caused by the migratory tuberculosis patient from other parts who seek better climate with. facts and figures of the number of tuberculosis cases in America.
 As proof of the breeding of the dis ease in the southwest MT. Tombs cites the county of Rio Arriba, New Mexico, which has no railroad connec- tiOn with the outside world. Most of the people living in that county are natives of the section. Draft regis tration figures show that that county had the average percentage of tuber- culous residents, the majority of whom were Mexicans.
 MT. Tombs disclosed this fact as part of his argument to educate the people against the disease. The great CT fight against the white plague is not the curing of it but it's proven tion, he asserts
 The sale of the Red Cross seals has already indicated it's success and according to MT. Tombs, Colorado is buying ten times the number of seals that it did in 1917. The sale in Ari- Zona has not been as heavy as that but early returns show the state will go over the top of it's quota.
 Funds realized from the sale are used to combat tuberculosis. Ninety one per cent of the money remains in the state subscribing it and so per cent of the fun realized in a county is allotted to that county. The re- maining 20 per cent returns to the entire country through the state and national associations.
 The county may use the funds to educate the people against the disease, to give relief to patients or to build institutions from which the fight on the white plague may be carried.
 Asked as to whether there were fig ures to show the actual economic value of the health work done by the, National Anti-Tuberculosis association and it's 100 state and local associa- tions in the past 15 years, MT. Tombs quoted figures received from Surgeon General Rupert Blue during recent visit to Washington, showing that pre- ventable disease cost the United States $4,000, 100000 less in the past year than it would have had the health conditions of 15 years ago pre- vailed at this time.
 The percentage of the enormous economic loss due to preventable dis ease that is chargeable to tuberculosis is indicated by such figures as were given out by Dr. Ravenel of Columbia at the recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association at New Orleans, 955 per cent of those disqualified among the 5000, ,000 drafted men were found tuberculous
 Mir. Tombs came to Bisbee from Douglas where he conferred with E. w. Graves, of the First National Bank of that citl. who is chairman of the Cochise county seal sale. Direc- tors of the state association in Bisbee 1 are Dr. G. A. Bridge, Dr. w. G. Bryan, Arthur Notman, Dr. F. E. Shine, Mrs. l