Why were Home
Demonstration women volunteering at and promoting chest X-rays? Before the
discovery of an antibiotic that was effective against tuberculosis, the disease
was a serious health problem in North Carolina. Chest x-rays could uncover the
disease.
The following is from
a “Cooperative Program Between the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association and
the Organization of Home Demonstration Work” in North Carolina. The poster is
an example of an educational aid used in the discussion of prevention. It is
from a county health department in Troy, N.Y. For more information on TB in
North Carolina, the N.C. Museum of History has an online exhibit at http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/healthandhealing/topic/13/ and Western Carolina University’s Digital
Heritage has an article on sanitariums online at http://digitalheritage.org/2010/08/sanitariums/.
The Problem:
The public lacks necessary information about tuberculosis, a
disease with a high death rate. Cases are often discovered late and a large
number of unknown cases exist throughout North Carolina. When TB is discovered,
patients face long waiting lists for expensive treatment. People fail to
recognize the seriousness of the problem, and that recovery is slow. When the
disease is arrested, patients and families need help adjusting and to keep the
disease from reoccurring.
The Tuberculosis Association will consult and furnish
printed materials, visual aids, speakers, background information, and sessions
with home agents.
Home Demonstration agents will attend training and arrange
programs on tuberculosis to be presented to home demonstration club members at
one meeting a year, preferably in October or November.
Home Demonstration Club Members and Health Leaders can (1)
see that families at the “end of the road” know of facilities available and are
encouraged to use them; (2) help arouse public sentiment to promote necessary
facilities; (3) In some cases, help getting persons to clinics; and (4) help
patients when they return home so that they can maintain their health and not
have to return to the sanitorium.
Aims Through Adult
Education:
--To give public the general facts about tuberculosis, its
causes, prevention, and treatment.
--To develop desirable attitudes toward the disease which
will call forth habits and practices necessary to prevent its spread.
--To inform the public of the local situation and what
facilities are available to combat it.
--To urge maximum use of present facilities and create a
desire for obtaining whatever is needed for better casefinding, treatment,
rehabilitation, and family service.
Tuberculosis
Association Executive Committee:
Kemp D. Battle, Rocky Mount, President; Dr. H.F. Eason,
Wilson, Vice-President; Elizabeth Smith, Goldsboro, Secretary; T.W. Steed,
Raleigh, Treasurer; Dr. M.D. Bonner, Jamestown; Dr. Derwin Cooper, Durham;
Rowland L. Garrett, Elizabeth City; Mrs. W.T. Smither, Winston-Salem; Frank W.
Webster, Raleigh, Executive Secretary.
Field Secretaries:
C. Scott Venable, Western District; Nelson W. Stephenson,
South Central District; Anne Mann, Northeastern District; Sarah Peatross,
Southeastern District; James Thomas, Northwestern District; Mrs. Velma T.
Joyner, Negro Health Educator
County Level:
A tuberculosis association is organized in the following
counties: Alamance, Beaufort, Buncombe, Burke, Carteret, Catawba, Cleveland,
Craven, Durham, Duplin, Forsyth, Gaston, Guilford, Hertford, Lenoir,
Mecklenburg, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, Pasquotank, Randolph, Richmond,
Rockingham, Rutherford, Stanly, Wake, Warrant, Wayne, and Wilson.
Home Demonstration
State Staff
N.C. State College,
Raleigh--I.O. Schaub, Director; John W. Goodman, Assistant Director; D.S.
Weaver, Assistant Director, Ruth Current, State Home Demonstration Agent;
Anamerle Arant, Northwestern District Agent; Mrs. Esther G. Willis,
Southwestern District Agent; Lorna Langley, Northeastern District Agent; Nell
Kennett, Western District Agent; Mrs. Verona Lee J. Langford, Eastern District
Agent; Mrs. Mary McAllister, Southeastern District Agent; S. Virginia Wilson,
Nutritionist; Pauline Gordon, Home Management Specialist
A&T College,
Greensboro—Mrs. Dazelle F. Lowe, Western Negro District Home Agent;
Wilhelmina R. Laws, Southeastern Negro District Home Agent; Mrs. Ruby C.
Carraway, Northeastern Negro District Home Agent; Mrs. Bessie R. Ramseur, Negro
Subject Matter Specialist.
County Level:
A Home Demonstration Agent serves in each of the 100
counties, and a Negro Home Demonstration Agent in 46 counties. There are 79
assistant home agents.
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