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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

U.S. Declaring War on White Plague, June 19, 1919

From the Hickory Daily Record, June 19, 1919

Will Raise $6 Million to Fight Tuberculosis

Atlantic City, N.J., June 19—In order to make possible the greatest crusade against the white plague ever conducted in this country, delegates representing 1,500 state and local anti-tuberculosis associations here decided to launch a whirlwind Red Cross Christmas seal sale in December for the purpose of raising $6,000,000.

The money raised will be used in 1920 to carry on an intensive fight for the prevention and control of the disease, the great increase of which in the United States was startlingly revealed, first by the draft examinations of millions of men and later by the strain of war. This will be the first national anti-tuberculosis fund-raising campaign held in this country since 1917. The drive will open during the first week of December and will carry through until the first of the new year.

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