The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-26
ALABAMA GAINING
IN TUBERCULOS
WAR, WORKER SAYS
Sale of Christmas Seals to Be
Started Within Short
Time to Aid Fight
on Malady

Gathering data on the anti-tuber-
culosis situation, and holding con-
ferences with workers for the pur-
pose of inaugurating the December
/ sale of Christmas seals, Arthur ].
! Strawson, supervisor of field service
of the National tuberculosis as
ISOLATION, has completed two
weeksN trip and survey in Alabama.
Mr.. Strawson was accompanied on
the trip by James M. Graham, field
director of the Alabama Tuberculosis
association, and visits were made to
the boards, executive committees, and
Christmas seal committees of the
| county tuberculosis associations.
! Reports were received of work ac-
complished in 1922 and Institutes
were held on programs of work and
publicity methods and seal selling
methods for the December sale of
! Christmas seals.
Seventy-five per cent of the pro-
ceeds from Christmas seal sales IN
Alabama is devoted to the support of
the county associations and 20 per
cent is used for the association, and
| per cent is transmitted to the
national association. Ninety five per
cent of the proceeds from the sale
of seals is, therefore, retained within
| in the state.
Children Attended
Alabama tuberculosis work is now
passing from the pioneer to the CO.
operative stage" said Mr.. Strawson
in an interview. Formerly. It was
a voice crying in the wilderness:
Tuberculosis is not hereditary, but
is preventable and curable.' Now
| 1t is becoming statewide system
with good local leadership. bent on
translating that gospel into life.
County associations were seeing
that the subtuberculosis child has
his physical defects found and cor
rected. whether the answer be sur
gerry, dentistry, nutrition classes.
tuberculosis clinics. summer camps
CIR open air schools"
Mr. Strawson declared that the
sanitorium provision in Alabama Is
not anything near sufficient.
with less than 100 hospital beds
| for the tuberculous and some 1000
deaths from tuberculosis annually,
we know that Alabama is much over
900 beds short in her campaign
| Alabama citizens would do well to
study the efficient institutional plan
now developing in Mississippi for
early cases and to see how many
counties there are planning for the
caro- OF their own AuouSi dtciy 100
advanced cases.
Campaign For Hospital
1.-THE retiring state administration
| in Alabama has placed this state IN
a proud position of leadership in the
matter of handling her criminal
classes. Her new state prison-the
Kilby PRISONS being heralded and
displayed properly by the American
Prison association as about the last
word in penal institutional planning
1.-THE incoming administration VIII
find an equally great and honorable
service awaiting to be done for the
citizens of Alabama in removing the
menace of tuberculosis. In this con-
nection the Alabama Federation OF
Women's clubs. in its new year
hook. wisely points out that Alabama
at once needs a million dollar sana-
torium for the care of it's early cases
, of tuberculosis
A campaign will be projected py
the Alabama tuberculosis associa-
| ton for a 100000 appropriation from
the state legislature for the erection
Of the first wing of tuberculosis
sanatorium. This campaign viii pc
financed partly by the sale OF CHRIST
mas seals.