The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-14

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our little headquarters that we may
| help the greatest possible number
| of suffering people, whose means Of
support comes solely from these seal
! sales, except In very few instances
| where relatives pay. Let them tell
| you of the nurses that are visiting
every Granny of Birmingham to try
to stamp out this white pleague, 5000
cases of which are in the county
visiting the homes and teaching the
people how to take care of their
| cases. and how to be careful for the
sake of everybody's health. Let them
show you how we are making strong
men and women out of frail little
children who contracted the disease
almost in babyhood. Let them tell
you that If we had a tuberculosis
hospital with 500 beds, we could fill
il with worthy cases-and when you
come back 1 feel sure that you viii
/ want to make your appeal stronger;
can't fail to tell everybody how vi
tally necessary it is that the seal sale
go stronger than ever this year.
I'VE need to do more work instead
of less, and / am so afraid that un-
less everybody helps, and does lit
tie better than usual, our funds will
be short, and our work curtailed in
stead of broadened as it should be,
sales. she said, were not going with
the necessary bigness.
A Wonderful Woman
At the sanitarium l found one OF
the kindliest women eyer met in
| my life-Miss Mary Dull, who is
s,lperjntendent.s and who has been
connected with the work eight
wears, With Miss Clements, she
took me from the business-like Of
flee to the beds. one by one, where
are lying those who are lighting the
tangible, miserable disease that only
fire sh air and good food and rest can
cure. How young the faces of Mary
and Annie and Florence-girls taken
from the business channels of life
who were stricken down at 16 or
thereabouts. How pale the face or
Beb--a strong young man just COM
ing into his 21st birthday-to be "a
man of his own but now just tu-
bereulosis patient. How wistful the
eyes of an elderly woman, mother
of some boy or girl in Birmingham;
and how sad the face of a youth who
perhaps never says so, but who
knows he must die. He stays there.
as many do, because he does not
wish to be the cause of spreading
the disease and making other people
SuH6r as ne IuSl. All tucSc diS
cared for by Miss Dull and her two
nurses. Misses Martha Phillips and
Minnie SHELTON, the physicians be-
ing Drs. l.. C. Wood, H. Levy, T. X.
Lewis and w. L. Staggers.
An Art Group
There's a little art class among
the youngest girls who. are able to
be up, and one of these patients
longs very much to be nurse If
she can only get we'll and develop
strength enough. She makes lovely
raffia baskets, which she learned how
to fashion in that brief space when
she once returned home to go to
school. But her strength did not
permit.
The home is only II years old. anT
could you see the wonderful work
done there; could you go by the
'headquarters on avenue f where at
the city clinic. hundreds of cases are
examined yearly; could you look
upon map where small tacks are
| set In by the thousands showing
where cases have been removed
| from, you would feel like supporting
the little Christmas seal sale. You
| would buy "till 1t hurt" DR.. George
| caves has been a big inspiration for
7 the sanitarlum. He has been spoken
| OF very frequently as one of the
city's greatest citizens on account
of this work.
The Anti-Tuberculosis association
has but recently opened up a clinic
in Bessemer where Drs. Velpeau and
| Clay Ragsdale have given section
of their office for the work. They,
Or. Grout, and many other physic-
ians in Bessemer are lending their
services to the examination of many
hnndrPdS Showing hnNt "a
disease has been in Bessemer. Mrs.
Clements said that since the clinic
was established in 1920 there have
! been rs deaths alone. Not only does
the association. the work of which
extends throughout the country.
cure many patients and isolate 9TH
ers, but its great work is that OF
preventing tuberculosis. Its nurses
are responsible for having house,
holders build sleeping porchos for
those afflicted; and they look after
children and persons who have been
in contact with tuberculosis cases to
prevent their contamination.
Where the Money Goes
| The money you spend in Christ
mas seals goes to put the following
nurses on the battlefront. to eNter-
inmate tuberculosis, besides those
already mentioned earlier in this
story: Misses II. L. Dean and Ellen
NJ. GUILTY; nutrition expert Miss
| Harriet Lowman, who works in FIVE
| schools; Mrs. B. s. Walker who has
eight county classes, two In each
school. Mrs. Laura Jackson Davids.
| office secretary. Two colored nurses,
Essie McGhee and Pauline Fletcher,
are also maintained.
There are several buildings at the
tuberculosis homes There is little
| recreational center with a piano in
1T and one boy was playing SILVER
Threads Among the Gold" when ! was
there. Somehow I cannot get this pic
ture out of my mind--just somebody
Boy T. lacked acro~a my rr're as