Evening star., 1924-10-12
HEALTH CAMPAIGN
RECORD REVIEWED
Tuberculosis Association Is
sues Report Showing Work
During Three Years.

The new slogan of the Washington
tuberculosis Association is making
health popular A report is now
ready for distribution to members
and friends of the association, IN
cluding every school teacher In the
city, covering activities during the
years 1921, 1922 and 1928.
How the Washington death rate
from pulmonary tuberculosis has de-
creased in the past % years is shown.
The death rate for white population
has fallen from 1873 per 100000 IN
1900 to g. per 10O. 900 in 1922. During
the same period the colored deatn
rate of the city has fallen from Az
per 100, 900 to 246 per 100000. rms
| means as aggregate saving OF ooi hVes
annually.
| In all of it's work the association
emphasizes preventive measures Tor
children. Twelve rules are printed on
large cardboard for wall display In
schools, and also in book emitted
Health Rules" in which each OF the
IL rules is treated by a special writer.
This book Is widely circulated among
school teachers.
Health Crusade Facts.
Next came the story of the develop
ment of the modern health crusade,
which was launched by the associa-
tion in 1919 under the direction or
Mrs Ernest K. Grant. The enrolment
of children reached a total OF 26,Ooo
the first year, and in 1928 the num-
ber had climbed to $4,000, when WASH
ington won the Berliner inter-clty
cup for the highest crusade enroll
ment in the Nation for cities OF loo,-
600 population or over.
Nutrition Clinics.
| In the year 1921 were begun by the
association. also in connection WIN
| the public schools. Velghlns ana
easuring of selected groups OF chil-
dren, with suggestions as TO 1ood'
exercise and sleep. which were en-
| ployed to bring about individual I'M
| provement.
In order to provide specially trained
workers for this demonstration, the
association arranged for its nutrition
director and also DR.. Joseph A
| Murphy, chief medical and sanitary
| inspector of the public schools, TO
| attend a course Of training IN the
Emerson Clinic Institute conducted
| by DR. William r. p Emerson at
| Rochester, N Y.
Extra MIX LuncheOns.
| One of the practical effects of these
! clinics was the provision for extra
| milk luncheons served to school chil-
| dren Great assistance in providing
| and attending to these luncheons WAS
and still is rendered by the parent
! teacher associations.
Since 1910. when the first open
| window class was authorized at the
/ Blake School on recommendation or
| the association followed in 1917 by
| the second open window class at the
! Stevens School, the association mas
| furnished milk and other foods re-
| olIired for the special nutrition OF the
children sent to these rooms ana chill
cal workers. The demonstrators
| have shown the need lof hloi
! open- window classes.
In 1917. following the urgent
! cornmendation of the association, the
! two special schools for tuoercuio's
! children excluded from the regular
schools namely, the Hamilton loi
white children and the Stevens TOT
colored children, were estaelisheu.
| One of the consequences OF the "oi
| done in these tuberculosis schools'
where the associations workers car
! ried on the weekly clinics, has beeH
| to emphasize the need of a children
| sanatorium where those suffering
from or threatened with tuberculosis
can be cared for continually day and
| night.
| This need has been further shown
during the Summer by the installa-
ton of a day and night service at the
children's camp on the grounos OF
the Tuberculosis Hospital. The chill
dren enrolled in this years camp
made much greater gain than those
of last year. when only day attendance
| was possible
After the World War the treatment
of disabled veterans disclosed the
| great therapeutic value of appropriate
forms of hand wark for the patients
| on the way to recovery
| All these and other information
services rendered the association have
been maintained largely by the an
nual sale of Christmas seals.