Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1917 — Indiana Society to Battle The White Plague. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Society to Battle The White Plague.

The Legislative committee on bills of the- Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, has embraced under two heads the things for which the committee will especially ask. The first merely corrects, an J makes workable the registration law of 1915 for the registration of living cases of tuberculosis. The second, in the form of an amendment to the county tuberculosis hospital law, provides that when two hundred citizens so petition, the people may vote.upon the matter, of establishing a county tuberculosis hospital. This amendment also encourages county hospital establishment by providing a state subsidy of $5 a week for indigent cases of tuberculosis cared for in the county hospitals. These two measures will go far toward making segregation of the tuberculous possible. . The Indiana Tuberculosis Society favors and considers offundamental importance, many other health measures now or soon to be before the legislature, especially the whole time health officer, uninhabitable house, and the compulsor" school supervision bills.