The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-06-18
tuberculosis Committee Sends
Letters Into Every Home Win
Aid of School ChiIdrea
REACH PARENTS IN THE CITY
Plan Made at Recent Meeting OF tDe
Committee is Carried Out in aA
the Schools This Morning
Results Expected
(From Tuesday s Daily

(EFOm IuoSudy Dduy
The homes of the city of KeHashx.
are this afternoon learning of the dan
gers of tuberculosis and the proper sseps
to be taken to prevent the disease, as at
noon today every school boy ans girE
in the city at both the public and garo-
chial schools was given an enxe5eps
containing message from the kGeaE
committee in charge OF the fight against
consumption.
More than 1000 Of these letters gere
handed out by the members of the ea1n-
| mittee in charge of the work wifA the
cooperation of the principals and tHaGls=
ers of the various schools of the city
The statement sent out is in lseTEiHg
with the recommendations of the stare.
committee in charge of the fight agaFusS
the disease. 1t is single page eiDagEaz'
letter and reads as follows:
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED
The best cures for consumption ara
l Fresh air and sunshine whieh kills
the germs of consumption.
Nutritious and well cooked Seodg
which aids the system to throw on tins
disease.
Regulated rest and exercise, and
such medicines as are needed to AeIS
the conditions which accompany tine 81
sease.
Do not use advertised cures for eon-
sumption. They will not cure. Med
cines are useful in treating conditions
associated with consumption but slaanld
be prescribed by reliable physicians
for each case.
Consumption is not hereditary. There
may be inherited a narrow chest, 3 law
vitality, general predispositlon to the
disease, but these can be overcome By
judicious training, outdoor exercise
nourishing food, regulated rest and
avoidance of all excuses.
The careful, clean consumptive iE not
dangerous to those with whom he w1rlx
and lives.
The cause of consumption is q germ
which is found in the sputum {spits
coughed up by the consumptive. THESE
germs may get into the system in m2nF
ways:
l By inhaling them in the &zie&
state from the dust in the air We
breathe.
By putting into the mouth artIelek
that have been used by sick person-
8 By eating diseased meat or dEinbF
ing infected milk.
Occasionally through an abrasion
of the skin.
Prevent consumption by having anti
splitting ordinances enacted and enfaFe
ed. Do not allow others to infict their
disease upon you:
Preserve your health by living, work
ing and sleeping in rooms where there
is fresh air night and day, winter and
summer.
To expand the chest and strengthen
the lungs, stand erect in the fresh air
and breathe-through the nose, zaeeYs-
ing the mouth closed-long full breaths
so as to- carry the air to every part Of
the lungs. By doing this every day
night and morning, you will greatly
improve your health. Other things be
ing equal, deep breathers live longer
than short breathers. {
! Always stand and walk erect, and
when sitting keep the back straight
Do not use Intoxicating drinks or mar
cotics; their use makes recovery froaz
consumption more difficult and tends to
induce the disease.
Ii you have cough, be examined ar
once. In many cities and towns there
are dispensaries where such examine
tiOns are made free of cost. If your
cough is caused by the germs of tuber-
culosis-consumption-yo can be emr-
ed if the disease has not too strong Z.
hold on your system.
Never spit on the sidewalk or f1sor-
but in a piece Of paper or cloth whiek
shall be burned. Always spit out the
material coughed up; do not swallow IL
By swallowing it the other organs naay
be infected
Finally, to prevent or cure consump
ton, breathe the fresh air, when posi-
bic live in the sunshine, have regulated
exercise and rest, and eat nutritious and
well cooked food, chewing it thoroughly
before swallowing
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