Evening star., 1922-02-14
WOULD REGISTER
| TUBERCULOSIS I'LL
Council of Social Agencies
[ Recommends Action in
t ChiIdren's Cases. !.
SHOULD KNOW OF NEEDS
Legislation Indorsed by Many
Member Agencies of
! Council,
SHOULD KNOW OF NEEDS

Registration with the health de-
partment of every child in the Dis
trIct suffering from tuberculosis was
recommended in resolutions adopted
by the Council of Social Agencies at
meeting held in the gray parlor
of the Raleigh Hotel yesterday aft
ernoon. The recommendation was
contained in a report of a special
subcommittee of the health commit
tee of the council. Mrs Ernest r.
Grant, chairman.
The Importance of proper care for
fuberculous children. and especially
OF Sahatorium care tor children
needing II, rather than hospital
treatment, was pointed out by vari-
GUS speakers, including Mrs West
or the board of children's guardians
DR.. John O'Grady, Walter = Cfford
medical inspector of the public
schools.
Take Wrong Track.
1t is imperative that the health
department and all agencies working
IN a social way in the District know
1he exact need in regard to tubercu-
Ious children. the chairman of the
subcommittee on health. declared
DIR. Murphy said it was unfortu-
nate that certain citizens associa-
tons should get an idea that a tu-
berculosis school is something to be
summed He argued that there was
no danger to airy neighborhood. THE
sentiment in the city seems to be
taking the wrong track" DIR. Murphy
said.
rah;,,, Ths council unanimously adopted
resolutions approving four pieces of
legislation now pending in Congress-
The compulsory education bill for the
District, provision for school or COL
ony for the feeble minded. an addi-
tlon to the municipal lodging house
and nurses home and increased
facilities for the tuberculosis Hos
pital.
Will Advise Senator.
Senator Phipps, chairman of the
subcommittee on appropriations of
the Senate appropriations commit
Tee. will be advised of the action of
the council
1t was announced that large num-
Der of the member agencies of the
council, through their boards, had
separately indorsed the four pieces of
legislation. These agencies included
the Christ Child Society. Council Of
Jewish Women. Associated Charities,
citizens Relief Association. Friend
ship House. st. Vincent de Paul So
ciety. Travellers Aid Society. Child
Welfare Society, Y. W. C. A. Juvenile
Protective Association, House of
Mercy, Neighborhood House and
others.
Reports were heard from the family
committee, Mrs. Walter s. Cfford
chairman; the community committee
Miss Macarthur. in absence of Will
liam Knowles Cooper: the childrens
committee. Mrs. Whitman Cross
chairman: the health committee. read
by Miss Sophie Sweet for Courtenay
Dinwiddie, chairman. and from the
legislative committee. Mr.. Cfford,
chairman. Needs of community CEN
ters and the settlement houses must
be studied. according to the report OF
the community committee. Mrs. Cross
announced that her committee will
meet at 3 o'clock Monday at her
home.
Mr.. NOyes Reports.
President Newbold Noyes reported
that the Federation of Citizens AS
seciations is glad to cooperate with
the Council of Social Agencies. and
that he expects much good to come of
such cooperation. He emphasized his
desire that the council shall never be-
come in any sense a lobbying agency for
social legislation, and to avert any ten
dency along this line heartily backed
two amendments to the bylaws of the
council. Both amendments were
unanimously adopted. the one making
1t necessary that recommendations
presented the council by an individual |
or committee be embodied in a written