Tuberculosis Patients Starving in the West
The press service of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis informs us that 4,000 consumptives starve yearly. Fully 7,180 hopelessly diseased with tuberculosis annually go to the States of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and California, by order of their physicians. Sixty per cent of these are so poor that they have not sufficient means to provide for the necessaries of life. Sometimes whole families who can hardly eke out a living in the East migrate to the West to save one member of their household. Something ought to be done to prevent this if possible. Twenty-eight state legislatures during the last year made appropriations of over four million dollars for the suppression of consumption. It is estimated that about eight million dollars have been appropriated in the United States alone for this purpose.