Show IJ Fight ht t Against Consumption It Is Increasingly evident that hat people people peo peo- plo all over o the country are awakening to n it realization of oC what an nn easy casy matter It Is to prevent the spread of or consumption consumption consumption tion and how comparatively simple Is tho the cure of that disease If It not neglected neglect neglect- c ed or ignored too long hong The Tho cities In which these truths are not being dailY dally exemplified exe are arc now few and to anyone anyone anyone any any- one who h has 9 looked ed Into the matter It ItIs Itis itis is not easy to understand wh why there should be any As Indicating Indicating- what Is being being- done elsewhere it ma may be pointed out that in Richmond a f few w days das ago a 0 public tuberculosis dispensary dispensary dis dis- was Wag opened for the accommodation dation of both white people and negroes neg Aside from rom the conducting of ot examinations to determine the he exist exist- ance or nonexistence of oC the disease au and the tho di dispensing of oC medicines th the physicians an and nurses attached to such Institutions may tb do an Incalculable ble hie amount of goo good by instructing Ig Ignorant Ignorant ignorant Ig- Ig or careless patients how to guard Juard against the danger of or infecting others and how to lo treat themselves by getting a maximum amount of or fresh air and by observing proper rules of diet iet an and exercise etc In an organization interested inter Inter- ested in th the tho is campaign n has Just called the thc attention of oC the thc chief of oC police to the tIme violation of or the ordinance expectoration on the tho sidewalks and in iii public places and that official has promised to see sec that the thc law is rigidly ly enforced If H necessary necessary sary he ho says says and and other police lOlIc chlo chiefs might take tako note of this thIs thIs-he he will station ot officers cers In plain clothes In places where persistent of offenders renders are aro most con- con and will viii issue orders that arrests are to be made without fear or favor It Is such developments de n as those these In Richmond nn and Louisville Louls that aid in th lie tho general movement to stamp tamp out consumption and that educate c te the tite masses as to 0 tho the real nature and the tho curability of or tho the disease as well as to their heir own responsibility In the pee premises |