Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1913 — RECORD OF WORK WELL DONE [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF WORK WELL DONE

Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign Fruitful of Results for the Good of All Mankind. Some comparisons showing the progress of the anti-tuberculosis campaign In the last eight years and the made by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in a brief report of its work recently issued. During the eight years of r its work, the national association has assisted in the organization bf over 800 Btate and local anti-tubercu-losis societies located in almost every state and territory of the Union. Over 600 hospital and sanatoria have been established, with more than 30,000 beds for consumptives. About 400 dispensaries, with more than 1,000 physicians in attendance and at least 160 open aiir schools for tuberculous, and anaemic children, have also been provided. Laws dealing with tuberculosis have been passed in 45 states, and ordinances on this subject have been adopted in over 200 cities and towns. An active field campaign of education against tuberculosis has been carried on fa 40 states and territories by means of lectures, exhibits, the press, and the dlstrfautipn of over 100,000,000 pamphlets on the disease.