Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-09 | Page 8 | California Complains of Tubercular Flood

CALIFORNIA COMPLAINS OF TUBERCULAR FLOOD CHIGO, Cal.. Nov. . California boil longOr can handle the Increasing fill! migration of indigent tubercular pa-tli pa-tli nts from eastern slates, Mrs. Edythe Tate Thompcon of Fresno. Cal., e-ecvtlvc e-ecvtlvc secretary of the California Tuberculosis asaociatlpn, declared in an address at the national convention of the league of t'alifornla municipalities municipal-ities here Monday. The immigration mUSl I" stopped If widespread suffering suffer-ing Is to he prevented, she declared; "California lus been gamely ruah to the id of these unfortunates until the burden is so great that action ac-tion to stem the tide must he taken bj eastern stales," Mrs. Thompson said Hundreds of misinformed tub-eroulara tub-eroulara make their way west, eaih year thinking Hie climate Will cure them, without thought of how the will secure o livelihood. The time and money spent roaming the country, if ucri for treatment at home, would hrinf health to hundreds who lose the uneven battle now." Convention officers said a resolution would he Introduced asking state and COUnt OTflcera to warn eastern : and tatlea against sendlne; tuberculan here unless the cao be canred for properly