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WOULD START FIGHT ONTUBERCULOSIS AT ONCEiProvident Association A || tea Is to Il»tj .Men and Women of Joplin to Assisi in Tills Crusade.Editor the Globe: The Provident Association feels that the time has come when/there can be no delay in starting: a strenuous fight against tuberculosis in the city of .Joplin: The Provident Association, inperforming its regular routine* of work, operates in all parts of the city, arid the increasing number of persons afflicted! with this dreaded disease makes it neces-, sary that it cry aloud and us;[ where are the men and women in JoplinI whose hearts and poeketbooks arc big enough to allow them to come to the aid j of the suffering humanity and the aid j of tlie hundreds of children wlm arehourly being contaminated through lackj of facilities for handling patients in this jj city. :! First.. Where is the man in Joplin who will give us the ground, preferably located out of town limits, where we can establish a modest sanltoi ium?Second. Where is the man who will build us a modest sanitorium with which to start the tight?Third. Where arc the men and women who will provide funds whereby we can !i guarantee the head of a family t! at his ; 1 family will be properly and. adequately j I eared for while he is being cured at a sanitorium?It would Vn far more economical to the community to appropriate funds enough jflto fight tuberculosis vigorously, rather than suffer the enormous loss which ‘disease and death entails.Any one interested in this fight can ; ‘communicate with Mrs. C. C\ Cummings, |• « , u « t » * % «■ i ! Ilt;JI(j1»Lot1c\apresident; Mrs. Gabo F. Newbury r. sec- j rotary, or Miss Hamilton, superintendentof the Joplin Provident Association.THE PROVIDENT ASS’N.
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Mar 10, 1910
Page 5
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