The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-03-27
TEXAS NEGROES COOPERATE
WITH HEALTH ASSOCIATION.

Austin, Texas, March 25.-Volunteer
health leagues are being organized
among the Negroes in many, commune
ties Of the state, declares Rev. F.
Rivers Barnwell, Lecturer TO Negroes,
of the Texas Public Health Associa-
ton, which is directing Negro Health
Week in Texas, April TO 10.
Many letters are coming into the
state office of the Association at Aus
tin from prominent Negro. citizens.
pledging their support to the better
health movement among the Negro
people.
The need for more health work
among the Negroes may be shown by
figures from the Negro Year Book.
published by the Tuskegee Institute,
which was founded by Booker I.
Washington. in commemoration OF
whose birthday the Health Week is
being held Some of the interesting
~" There care are 100000 Negroes in the
South i'll all the time; this means
rs days of illness year for. each
,of the sickness of these 100000 Ne
groes is 75,O00.OOO In the South
225, 900 Negroes die yearly; 100000 of
these deaths can be prevented. The
annual funeral expenses of these Is
S15,00O000; the annual loss Is poten-
nual economic loss to the South from
sickness and deaths among the Ne
groes is $300000,000 II proper health
precautions were taken, l5O,0OO;000
$780, 900 OF II in Texas. These are
reasons for health work among the
Negroes.
Special pamphlets containing out
lines for the activities of Negro
Health Week, stories, health songs,
lectures and sermons are being sent
out over the state by the Texas Pub
lie Health Association which is doing
everything possible to help better con-
>ditions among the Negroes of Texas.
Whereas Though the law APP
pears to be fair on its face, yet
by virtue of the true state Of af-
fairs, it is not fair and absolute
lily imperative when 1t comes to
Negroes and these schools; since in
order to obtain these schools, there
must be an election in which a
majority of the qualified electors"
shall vote for the, school, which is
matter of impossibility, when APP
piled to Negroes, since the Negroes
understand that they would not be
registered to any appreciable extent
should apply, to say nothing Of the
fact that fully one-half or more
adult Negroes, because Of Hitter
dCy COulu nut luCct tiiC AOQuiA OAhOAAeo
of registration should they at
tempt, hence, by virtue of this law,
the children of illiterate parents
are doomed to remain in ignorance
because their parents are ignorant,
which is altogether contrary to the
American spirit, the teaching Of
world democracy and the Christian
religion. Then what hope have
these people save through you?
Whereas: There is a sanitorium
provided by a common tax fund
collected by the state, for white
people afflicted with tuberculosis
but no provision is made for Ne
groes SO afflicted, though said to
be more susceptible to this dreaded
disease than whites;
| Whereas: There is an institution
provided by the state for the white
blind and none for Negroes; though
equally taxed for that purpose;
Whereas: There is a reformatory
Established and maintained for way
ward white boys of tender years,
and though in nroportion to popu-
llation and educational opportunities
there would be expected to be more
wayward Negro boys than whites,
and though the Negroes OF the
state are taxed for that purpose.
lyet no provision whatsoever has
been made for these derelicts, who,
under present conditions. must be