Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1910 — DOCTORS ARE TO PREACH IN THE CHURCHES SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

DOCTORS ARE TO PREACH IN THE CHURCHES SUNDAY.

Rensselaer Physicians will Fill Pulpits of Various Churches and Discuss Tuberculosis. 't- y ' ' '-I . - April 3d, is to be known throughout Indiana as “Tuberculosis Sunday,” ajid if tire plans of Dr. Hurty are carriecTmif ali over the state, as well as Dr. eT N. Loy, the county officer, is planning to have, thorn carried out in Rensselaer, the plan will be a great success and result in great good in the education of the public about the magnitude of tHe white plague and' the best means of prevention. Dr. Loy has asked the other doctors of the city to co-qperate with the ministers and himself in the work and the paßtors have all agreed to devote the evening service hour to the subject of tuberculosis and to give the doctors an opportunity to instruct the people in things should know about tt)e dread disease and the best methods of prevention of its spread. During the past year there were in Indiana 4,527 deaths from consumption, which invaded 4,022 homes. The treatment of the disease in'the state last year is estimated to have cost the enormous sum of $10,000,000. The doctors are interested in doing all in their power to lessen the disease and to make the lives of the victims as comfortable as possible. The novelty of haying the medical men fill the pulpits and discuss a subject so vital to the interests of the public, affecting their physical as well as their moral and spiritual welfare should in itself attract many to the churches, and it is believed and hoped that muph good will result from this means of education. .