The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-23
sNTHER HALF HAS
RIGHT TO LIVE
Much Work for the Health
Association to Do in
This City
FINANCES ARE NEEDED
Can Serve Tulsa's Needy if
Fund of $4,000 Is
Raised Now

lkAAoth ANp"
In tho gay light OF early morning
a Tulsa woman goes about the tiny
sBack she calls nome and does the
work for O family of five. She cleans
and does the washing and the iron
ing. gets the breakfast. sets out din
ncr. At She goes to work Every
Saturday night she brings home a
r1y envelope with SIS in il. The
family lives ON that Sl5.
The man OF tho family is helpless
because Of a tuberCular spine. lie
~ 90 hc cared for constantly. The
Vi 4-ycar-old girl is in bed out on a
sleeping porch with a tuherCular oar
and chest. The l2-year-old girl has
q tfiAprcu ar chest and the Younger
bov E slightly affected. Tho woman
II Wu ana strong; she Is known by
a good many people downtown but
few of them know the struggle that
She is making for the vcfy right 10
lvc-and for health as well as life
for her loved ones. She couldn't
have made the grade perhaps. II IL
hadn't been for the Tulsa County
Public Health association. 1t Is
for work like this that money in
vested Iu the association goes. -
Last week Tulsa mother gave
birth to u baby The only person
there at tho timu OF the birth was
her t4-ycar-old daughter, She had
no attention, no care. A baby more
or less in that family wasn't such a
tremendous thing; there is so much
there TO be unhappy about. When
the other hoy. who has a tubercular
Leg Tss taken to the hospital last
eH3he didn't have any clothes to
b. Zen in. The association work
crs had to borrow some from the
neigh0Ors. The six little children,
including the baby, are all suffering
from the itch. They all live in one
room. The father cant get work
Well what is there to do about
Il? The Tulsa Public Health associa-
ti1n has done all that IL can do
with It's limited staff OF workers and
It's slendcd resources. II Il had had
prenatal clinic and "A visiting
nurse, for instance, It could have
done much more. In the case OF the
Wrist woman, II the husband could be
taken TO sanitarium. the girls
threatened with the dread disease to
a prevcntorium. the problem would
be simphfied. But there isn't any
place here whcre-tubercular patients
can 50.
Not Isolated Cases.
These are hy no means isolated
nor extraordinary cases. But they
are typical They embody the rea-
sons why the Tulsa Public Health
association was ever formed. They
lell why II is necessary that It be
financed so that the work may go
on, And the work can't go on un-
less 1t Is financed. knowledge Of
such cases as those Just told about
would draw from the purses OF a
generous and warm hearted Tulsa
instant response, II Tulsa could see
lnem For after all, such problems
aIe Iulsas problems and the Tulsa
Puolic Health association a means
through which the city can soive
lhem SO the association is asking
me city il serves to finance 1T.
up against 1t the last few months
ior funds, the association has had
10 90 into debt to keep going. \
growing Tulsa creates new demandy
constantly The work must be en-
Arsed To do adequately that which
must be done, the association must
&Ve this year $4,000. With that
2NfN"'g l ilbnbHeS To serve uLsA
Y oy serving Tulsa's needy.
That Tulsa may know for what II
paying, Miss Bessie Richardson.
executive secretary OF the associa-
ucn outlined briefly yesterday the
general plans for the year. Devel-
onment and maintenance OF clinics,
aih Tor white and Colored people,
yloureu,ar child welfare and
Prenatal is one phase of the work.
hedlstrictiug OF the city, with in
suctye and visiting nursing done
y Wfmcn assigned permanently to
Ielr territory and enlargement ot
Ae nursing staff is another Educa-
mhal work in city and county il an,
'htr phase that Is Of great impor-
'ahce that is to be stressed and the
leyelopment OF county work in
,oNes continuance OF the work In
he schools OF the county that hns
a.Itady accomplished good for the
children of inestimahle value
campaign Being Launched.
10 raise the money needed for the
aork this year, a campaign is being
auhched tomorrow that will last
lor week c, VI. Fenstermacher Is
general campaign chairman, and
"eadQuarters have been opened up
.h Third street across from the Ho-
rl Iulsa, A campaign organization
5as been formed and with the un-
1srHanding and cooperation OF the
WY Il serves, the association feels
lee mat by the end OF the week
ue requisite funds will have been
1lAed' Cosden refinery. whose en-
loyes with their generous gift last
,aI.mmer kept the association going
"aeh otherwise It could not have
NNed, has already given $1,000
,,uNsfds this work. with this pub
3r'e1 and sincere eNnresslon Of
interest In the work of the associa-
aon az starting point, the work
9 teel sure that their plans for
nargement and betterment OF the
"",HlA need not be laid aside for lack
" mono. with m-hlnh 70 lnnnuIn