The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-27
STATE LEAGUE
HOLDS SESSION
New Jersey Tuberculosis League
Meets at Trenton Local
People in Attendance.
DEATH RATE Is REDUCED

Mrs. E. G. Shreve, Vice-President,
Director and member of the Executive
Committee of the New Jersey Tuber-
culosis League, and DR.. Clyde M. Fish,
also a Director and member of the
Program Committee, are in Trenton
attending the annual meeting of h
League this week end.
At the opening session Mr.. Ernest
D. Easton, the Executive Secretary,
presented a report showing the &C.
complishments during the past year.
He pointed out that in 1922 there were
3,175 deaths from tuberculosis in New
Jersey, bnt If the rate of 1911 had
prevailed, 1882 deaths would have oc-
Cured. This means a saving in a
single veal of LIT lives, or ar eco
nomic saving to the State of over
100000 yearly, as the economic val
lie of each individual to the State is
placed at about $4,000 by Professor
Irving Fisher, of Yale. Since the or
ganized fight against tuberculosis has
begun the death rate has been more
than cut in half, from 204 in 1904 to
90.5 in 1922.
The weapons used by the rhirty-fve
local organizations represented at the
annual meeting in helping to reduce
the death rate are:
l. A corps of nurses trained in find
ing cases, bringing them to the clinics
for expert medical diagnosis and plac-
ing them, if need be, in sanatoria,
where they will receive proper treat
ment. 2. A system of state and local
clinics where those suspected of hav-
ing tuberculosis may have free medi-
aa1 dia pnnefc An nnrnnriatinu Of
$4,000 by the State has provided
about thirty monthly clinics in terri
tory moi otherwise covered, but where
nurses are available either through
the State or local associations. 8. A
nutrition program which consists of
finding the u~nderweight children
threatened with tuberculosis and the
establishment of nutrition classes
where their resistance is brought back
TO normal or the operation of summer
camps where special attention Is CIV
en- TO restoring normal health to these
m~alnourished children. A.. A health
habit FORMING pEogram Tor schoolachil-
Crusade, or Health Clubs, children
learn by doing chores in the daily
routine of life which make for good
health. The League feels gratified
that the State Department of Educa-
ton has issued a bulletin on health
habit forming, based largely on the
Modern Health Crusade as carried on
by the New Jersey tuberculosis
League. 5. An extensive popular ed
ucational program which includes the
use OF motion pictures, lantern slides,
posters, quantities of literature and
lectures for all kinds of groups. The
press has been OF invaluable assist
ance in helping to advertise the elm
les that are available as we'll as to
bring to the people means and ways
to protect themselves or better their
health.
Much credit must be given to the
thirty-five local organizations as well
as to the increased activity aroused
in local boards of health, for the splen-
did results shown above. The State
League has tried to have an organiza-
ton in different parts of the State so
that no territory would be left uncoy-
cred. The perfection of these Organi-
cations and the working u OF a pro-
gram for each has been no small task.
The Christmas Seal has been the
medium through which most organiZa-
ton has been approached. Last year
the combined sale of Christmas seals
in New Jersey was 1857, 635 seals.
Not only do these seals supply the
sinews for the attack against tuber-
culosis, but they carry an important
message and furnish numerous op-
portunities for carrying on a splendid
educational program throughout the
State.
Reports con plans for the 1928 Seal
sale were made at the Christmas Seal
luncheon on Friday and plans for the
1924 program of work were outlined
and discussed.