The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)
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can be eliminated it must be done by informing practically every citizen
of the State how to avoid contracting it, and we believe that what we
have accomplished by this poster has been or will prove to be successful.
The superintendent of public instruction in our State, Mr. Morrison,
grasped the idea of the importance of this poster early in the campaign,
and he prepared a letter to all his subordinates directing them to place
the poster in the schools and to see that attention was directed to them
by the teachers. Again, Rev. R. E. Thompson, head of the New Hampshire
Sunday School organization, felt the importance of this work, and he,
too, prepared a circular letter to be sent to 600 superintendents and
teachers in the State requesting them to put a placard in all Sunday
Schools and direct attention to it. Copies of the poster were sent to the
different granges throughout the State. The posters have been printed on
cardboard, measuring 19 × 12½, and they cost, with envelopes, about a
cent a piece.
In addition to this form of publicity the New Hampshire Branch has
prepared two bulletins, one being a reprint of Rev. Elwood Worcester’s
article which appeared in the _Ladies’ Home Journal_ for March, 1900,
on the class method of treating tuberculosis. This has been circulated
gratuitously throughout the State. The conditions seem to be such in
our State that in a good many communities the class method ought to
accomplish much. Again, we prepared as Bulletin No. 3 an article issued
by the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis,
which treats in a very simple manner of the essentials of right living
and clean living. This bulletin is also being distributed gratuitously.
So much as indicating how the campaign has been carried on through the
assistance of printer’s ink, but we have in addition secured the services
of Mrs. Duryea, whose duties are to go about the State and tell of the
class method of treating tuberculosis. The method of procedure is that
she communicate with the officers of the local Women’s Club, some of
the medical men and other prominent citizens, to the end that a meeting
will be arranged, and at this meeting she tells of what has been done in
Boston at the Massachusetts General Hospital in curing those afflicted
with the disease.
We have found, regrettably, that the doctors in some of the smaller
communities have not sufficiently studied the apprehension of the disease
in its early stages. The State Board of Health has recognized this and is
endeavoring to bring before the profession means and suggestions so that
all of its members may have the latest word on this subject. The State
of New Hampshire has directed, and is about to open for the treatment
of patients, a sanitarium situated in the northern central section of
the State, but this sanitarium will accommodate very few cases, and for
this reason our campaign has been largely to interesting communities in
establishing tuberculosis classes.
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