Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1913 — SPIRIT IN TUBERCULOSIS WAR [ARTICLE]

SPIRIT IN TUBERCULOSIS WAR

Nineteen Million Dollars Expended Last Year In Fight Against the Dread White Plague. Nearly $19,000,000 was spent in the anti-tuberculosis campaign in the United States during the year 1912, according 'to the fourth annual statistical statement of 'Expenditures in this movement issued by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The expenditures during the year for sanatorium and hospital construction and treatment make the largest single item in the total, amounting to nearly 116,800,000. This is an increase of nearly $5,000,000 over the same group of expenditures for the year 1911. The antituberculosis associations and committees spent over >765,000, while dispensaries and tuberculosis clinics spent over $500,000. Over $415,000 was spent for the maintenance and establishment of open-air school and fresh air classes, which is more than double the amount spent for this purpose in 1911. Official, state and maniclpal expenditures outside of the maintenance of institutions, which are included in the other totals, amounted to $280,000. In addition to these figures, about $500,000 was spent by hospitals for Insane and penal institutions in caring for their tuberculosis inmates.