Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1918 — ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY IS LOSING MANY OFFICIALS [ARTICLE]

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY IS LOSING MANY OFFICIALS

The following letter, which is selfexplanatory, has been received in the office of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, 147 East Market, street, Indianapolis, and advises of the necessity of keeping up the work of fighting the white plague: “Among the problems by which tuberculosis workers throughout the country are confronted on account of the war, there is one which concerns the efficiency and m some cases the very maintenance of antituberculosis activities in the community at large. This is the Problem presented by the continued withdrawal of executive officers either to take up new war work, largely m Europe, or to enter the army or navy, by draft or enlistment. ’ These inroads have already been serious. By all means let organizations and individuals employed in combating tuberculosis be second to none in answering their country s call to service! But we must also face squarely the question of whether in the end some workers cannot render the most effective service by sticking to their present posts. With at least a million people afflicted with this disease in the United States, an annual death toll exceeding 150,000, and the additional problem of providing for the thousands of men rejected in the draft or discltarged from the army and navy as tuberculous, any relaxation of the tuberculosis campaign will be very costly to. the nation in terms of human waste. The national association urges, therefore, that in the case of executives or other officers whose relation to tuberculosis work is vital, earnest and thorough, consideration be given to the question which the present let-, ter raises. * Very truly yours; CHARLES J. HATFIELD, . Managing Director.