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Increase in Death Rate Not Due to Racial Prejudice, Says Dr. Grandy National Sanitorium in Rocky Mountain Region Proposed. Questions taating in the ravages of tuberculosis among negroes and the establishment of @ national sanatorium for those amitted with the white plague were discussed yesterday at a netting of the public health section of the National Conference In the Senate chamber of the State Capitol. De. Charles F. Grondy, of Norfolk, whi re at a paper on The Comsumptive Negro,’ brought out facts which were a bse starting to relegates far re moved from the centre of negro popu lation. Showing by the record that nearly three timeg as many deaths from the herculepsis occur among negroes os among the whites In the United States, Dr. Grandy suggested some of the rea sons, supporting them with facts brought under his personal observation, he Indicated that there is a physical predisposition, or lack of resistance, to the disease in the negro, and that be cause of mental condition he is unable to meet the conditions of American debatably subject, although the rea sonsue of opinion #bemed to be that It saw the duty of the powers to eraili gate, if possible, A stourge which is killing thousinds of persona every year—persons, ten, whose Ives could be saved by proper mana of prevention and cure, Woolf Sanntochim ti South, Dr. Walter Lindley, of Los Angeles, Cab, chairman of the public health sea son, taught that It might be the wWin@r plan,if a sanatorium could be established, to start one for the nn groes, th he sweated In the mountains of Western North Carolina oer Eastern Tennessee. The refusal of Congress to preserve the forests was used as ob possible ob stacle in the way of the plan as sug meated by Mr. Brung. It was woreed, however, that the movement shoulde encouraged alty life which he now confronts. Unknown to Slavery Daya, “Consumption was practically un known among the negroes previous to the Civil War, said the speaker, When the rice fed an orderly ty he disease was seldom contracted, Phystelang today are unable to REGOATE forts spread. Negroes haven't the material resisting power of the whites. They are not accustomed to the cold, and In winter they shut themselves In small houses, excluding air and proper ventilation. The houses are poor, the race has no idea of the value of ven tiation: it lacks proper nourishment and faces poverty. Thrown upon Its’ own resources, only A small percentage is able to combat the disease. Seem- Ingle, the negroes do not care, although| [have known of a case where a man reserced his wife because she hai tuberculosis. “Overcrowding and poor food are two of the main causes for the prevalence of tuberculosis among the negroes. They will not put up with any system of care. They are unwilling to acknowledge that they have it, and their unwillingness to persevere In the reason why they willl not be cured. At Petersburg we have been able to ac complish something because the new groes, being Insane, are forced to com ply with reputations. Not Due to Facial [Prejudicer. To show that tuberculosis is met due to racial prejudice, Dr. Grandy said that the negro death rate at Norfolk, for instance, is much lower than that AL Washington, Boston and other Einst ern cities, where there is a better system of sanitation, with better houses for the negroes. “Education,” he said, “has been of my service, as its shown by the spread and increase. The task is to teach the negroes that they must lead moral and temperate, yes, that they must have country air instead of the sctualid sur roundings of city life, and that they must give up the dance hall and the bar-room. They must be made to obey the rules. We should begin teaching the child; we should have nurseries and Kindergartens, and we should have a registration law by which the author ities can haave an accurate idea of the number of victims.’ Dr. Grandy said there is no sanato rium for white people, which is more important than one for negroes, an the latter will be an uncertain proposition. For National Sanatorium. Speaking for Colorado, which is a haven of refuge for thousands of tuber cular patients, Mr. Frank J. Bruno, of Colorado Springs, urged the establish ment of a national santorium in that state as the most economic way of relieving bad conditions. He and a conservative estimate showed that 50 per cent of the residents of Colorado came from other sections to get the benefit of the air. “The Rocky Moun tain region is the preferable location for such an Institution,” said Mr. Bruno. “The people of my State feel the need of more adequate provision for the treatment of poor consumptives. Many go there without the necessary means of support. They bellee that they can find Webet work which will sustain them during the course off treatment, but this hope is impracticable. Our local charities are absolutely unable to take care of all demands, Mr. Bruno described the sanitorium I plan, saying thact could be malintain eq] at an expense of $1 a day to each patient. It would not be wise, he thought, to place any dependence on the theory that consumptives can re duce the cost ba q work, as no felth should be put In that idea. The ques tion as to who should be eligible is rather difficult of solution, To the government undertook to provide this Institution,’ he added, “the people Mightshirk the responsibility, believ ing that the government could better, afford to pay the expense, it should be supported by private funds rather than by public foundation, the matter of finance and Inmates heing left to the wharty organizationy #eccleties of this country.’* State Crowded
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Richmond Times Dispatch
Richmond, Virginia, US
Fri, May 08, 1908
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