Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30
CAPPER WILL OPEN
TUBERCULOSIS WAR
Senator in Radio Speech Will
Stress Need for
Sanat0rium.

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas will
announce over the Columbia Broadcast
ing System at 11:45 o'clock tomorrow
the opening of Nationwide campaign
for early diagnosis of tuberculosis which
the National tuberculosis Association
will conduct during April. Affiliated
State and city tubercular organizations,
of which the Washington tuberculosis
Association is one, will cooperate in
the campaign.
Senator Capper, chairman of the
Senate District committee, plans to
emphasize the campaigns bearing on
WaShington's serious need for a Sana-
torium for tuberculosis children. Sena-
tor Capper has sponsored legislation
for this which is now pending before
Congress.
In New York City the movement for
early diagnosis will be further an
nounced tomorrow over a Nationwide
hookup by DR.. LinSly Williams, presi-
dent of the National tuberculosis As
ISOLATION and director of the New York
Academy of Medicine.
Fowler Approves Campaign.
Approval of the campaign for the
District of Columbia was given yester-
day by DR.. William c. Fowler, District
health officer
After citing progress made in reduc-
ing the death rate from tuberculosis in
the District since 1900, DR.. Fowler de-
clared
But in recent years medical science
has given more and more attention to
the established fact that tuberculosis
usually gains its foothold in early child
hood. If we consider now the official
record of deaths for the period of
childhood, or from one year to ten, we
find that in this city there has been
virtually no decline at all in the num-
Der of deaths from tuberculosis during
the past Is years.
THE total absence of sanatorium pro-
vision for tuberculous children, a con-
dition said not to exist in any other
large city of our country, has a direct
bearing on this level of the children s
tuberculosis death record. The urgent
need of such a sanatorium has been
further emphatically demonstrated dur
ing the past year by the Childrens
tuberculosis Clinic, conducted by the
tuberculosis Association in co-opera-
ton with the Health Department. This
work has resulted in the discovery of an
increased number of children suffering
from or threatened with tuberculosis.
children recorded.
Medical Societies TO Aid.
The campaign will have the active
support and cooperation of the medical
profession, public schools and various
public and private health agencies and
welfare organizations, all under the
general direction of a campaign COM
mittee Of which DR.. George M. Kober
is honorary chairman and of which
Mrs. Ernest r. Grant is executive
chairman.
All of the medical societies have
formally Endorsed the campaign and
Friday evening committee OF
physicians met at the home of DR.. John
Foote, president of the Medical Society
Of the District, to make arrangements
for a series of special children's clinics
to be conducted with volunteer service
during the campaign.
Through the official action of Mrs.
Giles Scott Rafter, president of the
Congress of Parent-1 eacher Associa-
tons, and Mrs. Joseph Sanders, chair
man of the health committee of this
organization, printed matter and posters
will be distributed at all April meetings
OF the branches, and actresses will be
made, while posters and leaflets will be
sent to all schools and churches.