THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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THIRTY YEARS
OF CHRISTMAS
SEAL SALE U.S.
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protection for children would re
sult in better health for all com
munities as a whole, attention
was directed toward the esta
blishment of such media as fresh
air schools, preventoria, and to
ward encouraging early training
in the ways of health. Providence.
Rhode Island, opened the first
fresh air school in 1908 and in
1909 the first tuberculosis pre
ventorium was established for
New York City children at Farm
ingdale. New Jersey. Other stat
es followed suit and today there
are 173 institutions with provision
for children who need preventer
ium care.
Tuberculosis Hospitals
New York, as early as 1909. pass
ed a state law authorizing the
building of county tuberculosis
hospitals. In 1913 an act in Wash
ington authorized counties in that
state to erect sanatoria for the
care of its tuberculous and inspir
ed other neighboring states in
the Pacific Northwest to under
take organized tuberculosis work.
Today there are almost 200
county tuberculosis sanatoria, be
sides more than 1000 other fed
eral state, city and privately own
ed institutions provdding special
care for tuberculosis patients.
A study of tuberculosis in rural
areas made by Wisconsin in 1911
revealed that tuberculosis was as
prevalent in the country as in the
city. This was an unexpected dis
covery and awakened other stat
es to the need for searching out
tuberculosis in their mors isolat
ed districts. Michigan was among
them and, following a state-wide
survey, was first to use a new
type of clinic. It was called the
“traveling clinic”. The itinerant
clinics became popular in other
states, and wer: the means of
uncovering many cases of tuber
culosis. At permanent tuberculos
is dispensaries and clinics patients
today not only are treated but
they are taught how to get well.
These are functioning to the ex
tent of about 1.000.
Control Tuberculosis
At Framingham, Massachusetts,
a unique health demonstration
was established in 1916 to show
that with the cooperation of phy
sicians and citizens it was poss
ible to control tuberculosis. At
the end of the seven-year dem
onstration the date rate had drop
ped to 38 per 100.000 population
from 121 during the pre-demon
stration decade. Statistical data
of untold value were assembled
through this study and the work
carried on in Framingham has re
sulted in similar demonstrations
in other communities.
Health in Industry
The study of tuberculosis in in
dustry has been another import
ant link in the chain that Christ
mas Seals have helped to finance.
In an effort to emphasize health
as a factor in industry the Chicago
Tuberculosis Institute in 1911
started a campaign to detect tu
berculosis among industrial work
ers. Other studies on this sub
ject include one in Vermont am
ong granite cutters, completed in
1921. It was found that certain
dusty trades are dangerous and
many measures have now been
taken to protect these workers
against tuberculosis. A recent con
trbiution has been a study of
death rates by occupation to foc
us attention on the trades in
which t'he tuberculosis hazard is
greatest.
In order to carry out one of the
aims of the National Tuberculos
is Association, namely, the study
of tuberculosis, in 1920 a Commit
tee on Medical Research was or- j
ganized. Because it was finan
cially prohibitive to found a spec
ial laboratory for tuberculosis re
search. the Committee organized
and coordinated work of individ
uals and groups and enlisted the
cooperation of various university
laboratories with their highly
trained personnel. These men and
women are working diligently to
add to our knowledge about the
disease and hope that some day
a specific cure may be discover
ed.
Social nsearch too has been
carried on and the findings of
various studies have helped to
bring to light the relationship of
such factors as age. sex. national
yt and occupation to tuberculosis.
Detection Tuberculosis
In the spring of 1928 the first
Early Diagnosis Campaign was
held. This country-wide educa
tional campaign conducted each
spring for nine years, has for its
objective the detection of tuber
culosis in its early forms. These
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campaigns have encouraged the
use' of the tuberculin test and thie
X-’-ny am->ng school children and
have been itv ti umenta’ in fip.di lg
early rases of tuberculosis when
trearr. tnt could be given in time
to save many lives. In Massa
chusetts a ten-year program was
started in 1924 by the State De
partment of Health for the detec
tion of tuberculosis among school
children, the most extensive pro
ject of this kind ever undertaken.
Wipe Out the Disease
And after recovery—what?
That is another problem tuber
culosis associations are working
on. In New York City back in 19
13 the first workshop for arrest
ed cases of tuberculosis was op
ened. At the Altro Work Shop
men and women are successfully
engaged in garment making. To
prepare tuberculosis patients to
return to work many sanatoria
conduct classes for study and
well rounded program of rehab
ilitation have been worked out
in many parts of the country.
Utopia may be a long way off,
but Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., Sur
geon General of the United Stat
es recently said, “Tuberculosis
can be wiped out in our nation”.
Progress Has Been Made
Why not work optimistically
toward that goal? In 1907 when
the first Christmas Seals were
sold 179 persons out of every 100,
000 population were dying from
tuberculosis: now less than 60 per
100,000 are dying. Certainly the
links in the nation-wide chain of
tuberculosis control that have
helped to save these ilves must
not be allowed to weaken. Other
links must be added. Let us hope
that before the next thirty years
have passed, the chain will be
so strengthened that the new
generation will see Dr. Parran’s
prophecy come true.
Cattlemen To
Use Modern
Aids Industry
(By Tne Associated Press!'
DENVER. Colo., Nov. 29, —Six i
gun methods having faded, west- i
ern cattlemen are turning to
science to aid them in their fight1
against the rubber-tired cattle;
rustler.
Electric eyes, charged fences, i
airplanes and radio are being dis-1
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cussed as weapons against out
laws who cost the high-heeled,
big hattl.d cattlemen thousands
of dollars each year.
"Rustling today is a greater
menace in the west than it ever
was”, says Dr. B. F. Davis, sec
retary of the Colorado Stock
Growers and Feeders Association.
The cause: high cattle prices.
"We aren't dealing now with
gents who were handy with a
lariat and a hot branding iron,”
Davis explains. "We have to con
tend with toughs from the city,
organized into gangs and equip
p.d with high speed automobiles,
rifles, skinning knives and plenty
of nerve.
Sell To Butchers
"With ranges fenced and paved
highways running through the
cattle country”, Davis explains,
"it is a simple job for a couple
of men in a fast car to drive to
a pasture, throw a spotlight into
the face of a steer, blinding him,
and then shoot hint down.
"They skin these animals and
drive two or three hundred mil
es to a crooked butcher who
‘fences’ the meat selling it over
his counter”, Davis says.
Cattle associations are offering
rewards, western states are tight
ning cattle inspection laws and
peace officers are forming inter
state pacts to put a stop to the
rubber-tired thieves.
Radios Now Used
But thsi hasn’t been entirely ef
fective. So Davis hopes now to
find an “electric eye” and charg
ed fences which might do the
trick.
Davis says he has in mind an
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