The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-12-02

than that of seeing to it that the chill
dren OF Michigan are well fed. Clinic
statistics show that a remarkable
large percentage of children in Michi-
gan are erweight-children Of the
well-to-do families as well as OF the poor
The Home Demonstration agents and
Michigan Agricultural College work
ers are giving splendid service in this
field, and it is peculiarly the RESPONSE
bility Of the Michigan tuberculosis
Association and all allied tuberculosis
societies to help make this work one
hundred percent effective. There is
room for almost unlimited expansion
of the program that has been put into
operation The milk and hot lunch
movement Is only in its infancy and
1t needs direction and expansion 80
that the whole state will be covered.
Then there is great need for prevent
oria and summer camps in Michigan.
There are at present only two Of the
former, but those two have more than
proved their value in saving the lives
of children and returning them to
health and strength. All children from
tuberculous homes or who for one
reason or another are threatened by
tuberculosis should have the benefit
OF preventorium or a summer camp.
This is part of the program which the
Christmas Seal Sale helps to finance.
FIELD WORK
tuberculosis in Michigan should be
subjected to "pitiless publicity. Only
in that way can it be stamped out. To
hvin trh tn oil
kinds OF clubs and organizations is a
task of large proportions. Business
mems associations, mems clubs, WON
ems clubs, oranges, churches, Parents
Teachers clubs - in fact all of the
thousands of clubs of all kinds that exist
In Michigan should hear the tubercu.
losis message from time to time
There Is great opportunity for a con
structive work as well as for the work
of organizing the counties in Michigan
for effective tuberculosis work all the
year round. Much literature is need.
ed all the year round in the news
papers and magazines Of the state. in
pamphlet form, in magazine form. The
educational work of the tuberculosis
Association and local societies must
never sleeps and neither can the foes
of the disease afford to sleep. Local
and state offices need funds for TINS
work, and the Christmas Seal Sale is
the only means of securing those
funds.
CLINICS
While the State Department of
Health has taken over the free public
clinics formerly conducted by the
Michigan tuberculosis Association, the
local tuberculosis societies in the var
ious counties can do great service
by holding supplementary free clinics
from time to time in their own COM
munities. The Michigan tuberculosis
Association and the State Department
of Health have pointed the way, and
too many free tuberculosis clinics can
not be organized by the locals. Hold
ing free clinics is one Of the big op-
portunities for service. Funds of
course, are needed for that, and local
associations in many communities can
perhaps best serve their people by en-
ploying their share of the Christmas
Seal Sale money for this purpose.
SANATORlA
Michigan Is still 1,400 beds short
of the minimum needed for the tuber-
culous population Of the state, even
when the sanatoria now under con-
struction in Calhoun, Muskegon, Delta,
Menominee and Detroit are completed.
That means that there Is not one bed
for every two patients who urgently
need sanatorium care to save their
lives. Another institution that Michi-
gan needs and which has proved Of
inestimable value in other states is a
State Camp for Convalescents, where
graduates may go through
a hardening process that will prepare
them for active life. The Michigan
tuberculosis Association is back Of
the sanatorium propaganda in every
way possible. Past experience has
shown that great deal of education
is needed in most counties to arouse
public opinion sufficiently SO that they
will provide adequate sanatorium care
for their tuberculous. The sanatorium
movement is gaining in force and the
time is ripe for greater efforts to pro-
vide at least enough institutions to
meets the minimum needs of the state.
A program Of active sanatorium build
ing is big part of the work for the
coming year. A big Christmas Seal
Sale will mean greater opportunity for
carrying out this work.