The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-05-27
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
DRIVE NEXT WEEK
Aim is to Raise $4,000 in Order to
Realize the Gift of the Proctors
for e-Tuberculosis
Preventorium.

The campaign TO raise $4,000 to
fight tuberculosis in Vermont to meet
the $4,000 offered by Redfeld Proc
tor and Miss Proctor begins Tuesday
next. Fred A. Rowland, state chair
man, reports that county chairman
has been appointed for every county
in the state and town chairman for
nearly all of the towns. The campaign
Is from the first to the fifth of June,
but the county chairmen are urging the
towns to try to raise their quotas the
first day. In fact, a few towns have
even now sent word that headquarters
may announce their quota as raised the
first day of the drive.
Mr.. Rowland and III. w. Slocum, ex
ecutive secretary of the Vermont Tu-
berculosis association, have spoken at
meetings of representative men in most
of the large towns of the state. Mr.
Rowland states that in every place
where iii has been possible. to present
this cause directly, the audiences have
been absolutely convinced of the worth
mess of the cause and pledged them
selves to raise their quota
One feature of the campaign that APP
peals TO many is that not only is the
money TO be spent in Vermont for
Vermonters, but that 90 per cent will
be used exclusively in the health dis
trict where it is raised under the di-
rection of district committee.
That tuberculosis is a real menace,
Mr.. Rowland states, is sufficiently
proved by the fact that it kills one
third of all who die between the ages
of IS and 40, that it is responsible for
one e-tenth of all deaths. It kills an
average Of 300 in Vermont every year.
As to the question, are the proposed
plans for attacking it practical Mr..
Rowland states that the Rockefeller
foundation has spent hundreds OF
thousands of dollars against tuberculo-
sis in France on the very same plan.
Secondly, that the plan has the whole
hearted endorsement of the state board
of health and. lastly, that Mr.. and Miss
Proctor realized the need of financing
this plan and made their generous gift
of $4,000 for a new preyentorium CON
tngent on raising a fund sufficient to
finance it.
FL. w. Slocum. secretary of the Yer
mont tuberculosis association, states
that one-half of the work of the asso-
citation is 10 help build up the resist
anee OF individuals to the disease the
other protection from infection. For
the first half, the association with the
cooperation of the state board of
health is enlisting boys and girls Of the
state in health crusade in which they
do health chores and learn health hab
its in a game. Over twenty thousand
boys and girls of Vermont are heath
crusaders and the movement has the
written endorsement of nearly every
district superintendent. In addition to
this, lectures have been given, health
pictures shown, etc,
The second half of the work is TO
discover and place under proper super
vision sufferers from the disease. II is
estimated that there are about two
thousand eases of tuberculosis in the
state under no medical supervision
Some of these are spreading infection
to others, and some could be cured if
given a chance. In addition TO these.
there are the children in these homes
pre-disposed TO the disease
To reach these people. the associs-
tion plans TO place health nurse in
each of the ten health districts to
work with the district health officers
TO place at the disposal of the physi
clans of the state a doctor in the early
diagnosis Of tuberculosis and, lastly, TO
secure the new preventorilym offered
by the Proctor family.