Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-12-22

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the United States, q strong movement,
movement which has been gather
Eg S rength for the past ten years, to
lessen the illness and SUITE ing due -
tuberculosis or ccnsumpti n. 1t was
formerly supposed that this disease
was inherited and that many people
we're born with the seeds of consump-
ton present in the body and from
which they were bound to die at an
ealrier or later time, no matter how
they might live or what they might
do to avoid it. The reason it was
thought to be HEREDITARY was because
many people in the same family fire.
quently died of it while many fami-
lies, even neighbours. were never
known to be affected. This idea of the
disease is now known to be altogether
wrong.
tuberculosis is an infectious or
contagious disease like smallpox or
diphtheria and is carried from one
person to another by germ or bacil-
lus which, however, is of slow growth
and may remain long in the body be-
fore the signs of it's activity are APP
parent.
It is usually carried from one to an
other by the germs which are present
in the spit of the consumptive being
cast upon the floor or sidewalk, there
10 be gathered up by clothing or by
the child playing upon the floor. or
else drying it goes into the air as dust
to be breathed into the lungs. No.
body, therefore, should spit upon the
sidewalk nor upon the floors, of the
home or any public building, for it
is both filthy and an easy way Of
spreading disease.
Those who are ill from any threat
ening lung disease should always spit
upon paper or pieces of cloth in a
dish and this paper or cloth should be
burned before the sputum has become
dry.
After case of consumpt:o on in any
home, all parts of the house should
be thoroughly dis:nfected by first
scrubbing the floors and walls with a
strong disinfecting solution and after
wards fumigating with forma,dehyde
gas. One of these alone is not suf-
flcient.
In this country where the air is SO
pure and fresh, too many people are
afraid of catching cold. Fresh air
in sleeping room never gives any.
che cold if the body is pro-e-ly
covered. We often see people in
Northern Minnesota living all winter
i'll tents and having fewer colds than
those who live in comfortable houses.
IN the tuberculosis Sanitariums in
Canada, Northern New York and our
own Minnesota, the patients sleep in
open porches or right beside a wide
open window and instead of dying,
get we'll Fewer people would die
of this dread disease if they would
open up the windows when they go
to bed.
More people die of tuberculosis
than of any other disease. More than
900, 100000 people die o. tlberculo-
sis e1ch year. More than 100000
people die of tuberculosis in the Unit
ed States each year.
More than 1000 people die of tuber.
culosis in Minnesota each year. More
than cne-ejghth OF all de aths in Mar
shall county are due to tuber .ulosis
Ope-half OF all who die bctween q
and IS years of age aye needless VIC
TINS of tuberculosis.
The money loss alone 10 the state
of Minnesota caused by tuberculosis
is estimated at 100000 each YER.
That the deaths from this diseas
can be greatly lessened if not entire
ly done away with is proven by the
fact that in England, Prussia, Stock
holm, New York and other places
where an effort has bel made u con
troll it, the deaths have been reduced
one-half in a few years. .,>s ~
The people of Warren, believing
that an organized effort should be
made. have organized all Anti-Tuber-
cud]jsisoid delu rdlerder sral dlu< uu
culcsis Association and are mailing
all earnest endeavor to get tine Cthe ;
villages and towns throughout The
c n't,r to do the same win tile idea
Ct ultimately forming n MARSHALL
&C.. 1:ty Association which Will haNe
for it's object the sprea ding of for
nation by lectures and reading mat
Ter and if sufficient money can be
raised to employ one or more visiting
nurses to assist the sick and educate