Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1916 — CAMPAIGN ON TO SELL SEALS [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN ON TO SELL SEALS

Anti-Tuberculosis Society Hopes to Accomplish Much. Severance Burrage, president of the Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, has addressed a call to arms, not only to all county anti-tuberculosis workers, but to >ll public spirited citizens in the state of Indiana. In its brief history the Indiana anti-tuberculosis movement has enlisted thousands of competent workers. Its success has been phenomenal: one state, two private and three county sanitariums are now rendering excellent service and a fourth county sanitarium has been voted; the open air school movement is fast gaining momentum; the establishment of public health nursing now proceeds at the rate of twenty new positions a year, while there are ninety-one public health nurses in the state at the present time; seventy-two counties are conducting local anti-tuber-culosis campaigns, and death from tuberculosis, notwithstanding the increase in population, decreased from 4,710 in 1900 to 4,0i9 in 1915. Many of these achievements result directly or indirectly from the use of Red Cross Christmas seal funds in educational work. The aim is one state and ninety-two county societies all actively engaged in anti-tuberculosis work. The 1916 Red Cross seal campaign is upon us. Citizens or societies willing to volunteer to aid in the sale of seals are urged to drop a line now to the Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, 147 East Market street, Indianapolis. Except where five Red Cross seals per capita have already been sold, that goal is set for each community, the mark set for the immediate campaign is &, 000,000 Red Cross seals.