Evening star., 1940-11-21
uge Saving Is Seen
n Testing Se|ectees
or tuberculosis
District Association
Told I l,000, 900 Men
Will Be Examined

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Told I 900, 900 Men
Will Be Examined
A million men will be examined
etUeen now and next summer for
tuberculosis before entering armed
ervice, and the procedure will save
he Government millions of dollars
compensation costs, members OF
he District of Columbia Tubercu-
|bsis Association were told at their
Innual meeting yesterday In the
4. w. c. A. Barker Hall.
d Such examinations not only Will
| hut governmental costs but will un-
|over disease infected SelecteeS still
h the early stages of tuberculosis,
pr. Esmond R. Long, director OF
he Henry Phipps Institute in Phila-
elphia, declared at the groups
|ncheon meeting.
We cannot overemphaSize the big
aving in health this program will
Ifect,' he declared. He predicted
almost universal examination OF
|pcistrants as soon as procedure" is
|Orked out.
Anxiety over the future OF med
fal officers in the country's sana-
|pria who are of draft age was
DICED by DR.. J. Winthrop Peabody,
resident of the local association
|nd chief consultant at Glenn Dale
|anatorium.
Would Keep Them at Posts.
These young men should be left
h their present assignments DR..
|eabody stressed. 1T would be
|prious thing if they were taken
|wav at this time" He added that
hedlcal heads, including DR.. George
Rutland. District medical officer,
Fere particularly anxious that some
hing be done to keep their junior
FnCers on duty.
Because the Army in the last war
hade only the routine physical
Eanlination of recruits it has cost
be United States a total of $780,
p0000 for disqualification, insurance
bid other compensations of tuber-
(llar veterans And this cost is
till going on" DR.. Long pointed
hut Approximately S3000000
honth continues to be paid out for
[lch cases. he said.
Examination by X-ray. DR.. Long
sserted. is the most effective meth
Id now known by science to detect
tuberculosis. claiming it was seven
INES as efficient as physical exam
hatiOn.
While the advent of the next in
uCtion should see X-ray eXamina-
Jon regularly carried out, State eX-
of National GuardSmen. |
,r. Long revealed, had mot been |
S thorough as had been hoped
[e urged that tuberculosis associa-
ions, as well as State and city |
take a hand in seeing that
of the National Guard
-ere afforded adequate examination. /
Examinations Revised.
The Armys mobilization regula- !
.ons drafted at the beginning OF /,
he summer did not call for X-ray I
xamination of registrantS. but re-
ised orders give assurance that /
puth about to enter service will
eceive examinations, he said.
Both labor and capital. he added, !
ave put pressure on military au-
noritieS to bring about chest ex-
of selectees.
A much smaller percentage of
ctive tuberculosis victims, he felt
ould be discovered among soldiers
han in 1917, when approximately
10000 men out of an Army OF
100000 were found to be infected
DR.. Peabody, in his annual report
D the association, pointed out the
death rate in the Dis
riot is now lower than ever before
nd that our ultimate goal of erad-
cation Of tuberculosis is slowly, but
lTely, being reached,
He praised The Star for distrib-
ting 10000 copies of a specially
rOtograVure section on
tuberculosis control and prevention.
DIR. BallOu on Board.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou. Superintend-
Mt of District schools, was named
D the association Board of Direc-
1rS, along with Dr.. Henry J. CroSSln
nd Dr.. c. Wendell Freeman. Re-
lected to the board were DR.. James
). Murphy and DR.. James Cum
lingS. All other officers also were
e-elected: DR.. Peabody, president;
pr. Luther H Reichelderfer, vice
resident: Willard c. Smith, vice
resident; Ross Garrett, treasurer;
Hrs. w. Frank Persons. secretary,
nd Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, manag-
lg director.
Marking the opening Of the
christmas seal sales Miss Marion
Iorris, robed as the spirit of the
)ouble- crossed Bar'-symbol of the
,ational tuberculosis Association
Introduced three young children who
epresented the three figures on this
ears Christmas seal, They were
elizabeth Stirling, 4 Judith Marti,
. and Robert Nicodemus, 6, They
ang Silent Night
Earlier the three, with Mrs. Grant,
ppeared at the White House to pre-
ent President Roosevelt with the
.rst Christmas seals.