Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — West No Place for Consumption. [ARTICLE]

West No Place for Consumption.

Physicians in all of the eastern states will be asked by the National Association for the Stndy and Prevention pf Tuberculosis to stop sending consumptives in the last stages of tuberculosis and without sufficient funds to the southwestern part of the United States in search of health. While it is impossible to tell accu.-. rately how many consumptives there are at present living in the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, and western Texas, it is probable that no less than ten-per cent of the 6,000,000 people in this territory have tuberculosis themselves, or have come to the west be* cause some member of their family have had it. Every year, the health authorities estimate, not less than 10,000 consumptives, hopelessly diseased, come "west to die. For these eases, the climate of this section of the country can do nothing, and they are compelled to die in strange surVoundings and thousands of miles from home and friends. The National Association points out further that from 60 to 60 per cent of these advanced cases are too poor to provide the proper necessaries of life, and they are either starved to death, or compelled to accept the meager charity which this part of the country affords.