Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-14
Seal Sale This
Year Will Begin
On November Is
Local Chairmen in Various
County Districts to Again
Direct Health Campaign.

Plans are now under way for the
1910 Christmas Seal sale to raise funds
for the fight against tuberculosis I'M
der the direction of local chairmen
in the various county districts.
The campaign will open November
Is, and will continue until Christ
mas. This is the Saith Christmas
season that local workers have CO.
operated with the state and national
association in the Embarrassing and
educational campaign against tu-
berculoSis.
Gives Message to Workers.
Pointing out the importance of in
creased efforts against tuberculosis,
DR.. S. A. Slater, president of the
Minnesota Public Health Association,
speaks as follows in a recent message
to workers:
I've have come to think of our
final victory over tuberculosis as in
evitable. Unfortunately, it is not
inevitable. We are even now con-
fronted with situation which, I'M
less we actively fortify ourselves
against it, may undo all that has been
accomplished in this century in WHIP
ing out tuberculosis.
War Creates Health Problems.
Il refer to the war now raging
across the seas, and to the defense
plans of our own nation, which over
shadow all other needs. Europe has
not been as successful in its fight
upon tuberculosis as we have been
in this country. Even in pre-war
days, the tuberculosis death rates
for Europe read like American rates
at the turn of the century. Here
are some of the rates per 100000:
gary, 149; France, 118; Norway, 149;
Portugal, 1923. For comparison, the
rate in the United States for the same
year was $50.
with this situation existing in
pre-war Europe, it requires no eX-
ceptional imagination to envisa e
present-day Europe with the ravages
of war and the threat of famine over
the continent. The white plague is
again on the march, for war and
tuberculosis go hand in hand.
while the current tuberculosis
death rate in the United States is at
an all time low of 46.6, week by week
shiploads of refugees have bridged
the space that has protected us from
the menace of diseases abroad"
Begun in 1904.
The beginning of the volunteer
movement for the Embarrassing and
educational campaign against tu-
berculosis is given in the following
statement released by the Seal sale
committees:
I'm 1904 handful of courageous
men and women organized themselves
into a crusading army to face an
enemy as old as mankind. This early
band, the National tuberculosis As
ISOLATION, knew in general what was
needed-clinics to discover case S,
sanatoria to care for them, public
health nurses to solve the family
problems, and an intensive campaign
to teach the public facts about tu-
Branch in Every County.
1.-THE tuberculosis pioneers recog-
nized that they were facing an enc
my who recognized no lines of geog-
raphy, race or creed, and that the
whole country must be organized. Sc
it is that there are now more than
1000 state and local tuberculosis
associations marching under the ban
ner of the double-barred cross and
deriving their funds from Christmas
Seals. The movement is of, for, and
by the people. The Minnesota branch
now known as the Minnesota Public
Health Association, was organized ir
1916, and now there is branch ir
every county"