Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-13
THE WHITE PLAGUE.
Exhibit Comes to Wausau Next Week
To Be Here Seven Days.

Beginning on Monday Of next week
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis as
sociation will have an exhibit in this
city and every day thereafter for one
week this exhibit will be free for the
| public to examine and the lectures to
be given each day will prove instruc-
| tive.
The exhibit is in charge of w. O.
Gloyer and Harvey Dee Brown of Mil
Waukee, who will give lectures them
selves and interest local physicians
and others in speaking. The lectures
will be given every afternoon at four
O'Clock and evening at eight. Those
who have undertaken the work Of
bringing the exhibit to Wausau will
do all they can to make it instructive,
and all that remains to make it a
success is large attendance, and
this there should be, for the problem
of fighting tuberculosis is grave one
in which every human being should
be Interested
AS previously stated in these col
umns, charts showing tables of NOR
tality, diseased organs preserved in
alcohol and the paraphernalia for
| fighting the disease will be exhibited.
In the lectures stress will be laid on
the prevention of the spread OF the
disease, particularly in taking care OF
and disposing Of the sputum of con-
sumtives. II has been proven that
the distribution of sputum is one of
the greatest agencies in spreading
this disease, for when a diseased per-
son eXpectorates on a floor and the
sputum dries, is pulVerized and
thousands of particles, each contain
ing germs, float through the air and
the germs are transmitted to healthy
people.
Too much interest cannot be aroused
in the subject as tuberculosis is one
of the most insiduous and dangerous
of diseases. 1t claims over 100000
people in the United States every
year and it is estimated that there
are at least 100000 cases in the coun-
try today. OF the 80,000,000 people in
this country ten per cent. or 8,000,000
are doomed to die of this disease un-
less we do something to prevent it.
Last year $500 of the ,2,500,000 peo-
pie in Wisconsin died of the white
plague.
In New York City $23,0O0,0oc is
spent annually on account of deaths
due to this disease, and yet less Than
two per cent. of that amount is eX-
pended for the prevention of the dis
ease. The direct losses from tuber-
culosis in the country in single year
amount 81, 900, ,000,0 600 and the loss in
Wisconsin alone amounts to ST, 500, 900.
Consumption is durable disease
and at some sanitariums Is per cent.
of the patients have been restored to
health.
Methods of prevention and cure
enter largely into the exhibit which
will be shown in this city. The ex-
hibit will show in graphic and strik-
ing form the great losses caused by
the disease and the most effective
and economical preventative measures.
The exhibit is intended for everyone,
but primarily for those who cannot
afford to send their afflicted loved
appropriated large sum of money to
be used for the benefit of those suffer
ing from tuberculosis and everything
will be fully explained. No admission
fee is charged and no collection is
taken. The expense is paid from the
fund derived from the sale OF Red
Cross stamps at Christmas time.