The Omaha guide., 1935-04-06

ASCl IhdI PuOllCdblOH VI Tie uIlulLSS
of the committee will go a long way
to thwart the real purpose Of the sur-
vey.
The White Mans Burden
Interesting among the things
brought out by the survey, which in
cluded but 1886 people, and those
mostly in the poorer and more con-
gested neighborhoods, is the fact that
this continues to be the "white mans
problem"
The survey brought forth the fact
that tuberculosis is NOT an inherited
racial disease. Place whites in the
same conditions and under the same
circumstances as those which pre-
vailed among the Negroes who were
examined, and it is believed that the
percentage would be as high, if not
higher.
The burden for the appalling fig
ures disclosed in the survey has placed
the blame for the condition directly at
the door of the white race.
What is wrong with a City Health
Department which allows realtors to
rent properties which should be RACED ?
What is wrong with a City Health
Department that allows six people to
live IN ONE room in tumble-down
novels, wors than pigpens, and
forced to share common faucets, cups,
toilets and beds?
What is wrong with a City Health
Department that knows and "winks'
at the fact that ONE WATER HY-
DRANT must supply "a FAMILIES?
What is wrong with a City Health
Department that allows an aged cou-
pie land still they fight the pension
BID to cover in a tin garage without
water or toilet?
What is wrong with a City Health
department which doesn't know (oi
refuses to know that a mother, faith.
er, eight children, and the baby of 9
~16-year-old unwed girl were forced
to be herded into TWO ROOMS. as
their only protection against wintry
blasts?
What is wrong with a City Health
Department which allows a scummy
spring, checked with offal, used as al
open sewage drain, to flow through tn,
back yard of another tenement?
The White Mans Burden
Certainly, it's the white mans bur
den. We are living in the United
States of America, A. D. 1885. It.
q white mans world, white-controlled
1t is his love for the Almighty Dollar
His God-which permits Of sucl
conditions.
a He feels that he can afford to winI
at these conditions. Perhaps he can
But he must realize that tuberculosis
is confined to no race or color!
Certainly, Negroes admit that tn,
death rate is high, but under the con
ditions, exaggerated by social and eco
nomic disadvantages and fighting /.
b~are-handed, one-sided fight, it's ONLY
by a miracle Of superb health-back
ground, that the condition is not fal
worse.
ct B." Not Hereditary
We wonder why the daily news.
papers did not search through the re
port and bring out public attention
that tuberculosis is not hereditary
We wonder why these same dali,
newspapers did not play up the fac
that there r only three overworkec
field nurses to care for the patients
We wonder why these same dali,
newspapers did not look deep into tn,
survey and bring into bold display tn,
fact that Leech Farm admits ONLY
ONE NEGRO out of 20 PATIENTS
when THEY KNOW that the dealt
rate among Negroes from tuberculosis
is six times that of whites?
We wonder why these same cit,
editors and rewrite men, who Above
their puny personalities to be refecte
in their headlines, didn't bring on
the fact that the average length o
disqualification for a Negro patent q
Leech Farm was THREE MONTHS
a period Of time which would do n
good in treating the ailment.
What Army Records Shew
We wonder if the city editors o
these same daily newspapers can n