El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-12-13
With The War Workers.

Inc sale OF heQ Gross seals This year
should treble that of 1916. Throughout
the nation the Importance of tuberculosis
work has been intensified because of the
war. The United States must act promptly
and efficiently or it will find itself handi-
capped and actually honeycombed with
tuberculosis. France is stricken with the
white plague to a far greater extent
than the wounds inflicted upon the battle.
field. The tuberculosis death rate in Ber-
lin has increased more than fifty per cent.
London is graphing desperately with the
problem. Far more Red Cross Seal money
with which to fight tuberculosis in this
country is needed this year than ever be-
fore. Will your community do its share'
On March, 20, 1917, Lord Shaughnessy,
President of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
thus described the conditions in the Donnin-
ion:
A many Canadians have been killed
at home by tuberculosis since the war be-
gan as have been killed by the war itself.
Yet it is an entirely preventable disease.
If we stop it's ravages we shall more than
make up for the ravages of war. II we
stay in the rut and let this enemy go on
killing our people at home as fast as the
Germans can kill at the front, the less
we talk, the better"
More than 200, 900, French soldiers have
been sent back from the firing line be-
cause they were SO ill with tuberculosis
that they were no longer able to fight.
Our men, New Mexico men, too, will fall
victims Of this disease through the hard
ships of life in the trenches. They are OF.
fering their lives for us, for every man,
woman and child in our community. Will
we do all that we can do to nurse them
back to life and happiness when they
come back home to us broken in health?
Each community in New Mexico surely IL
too proud, too big of heart, too deeply
conscious of its obligation to its own
flesh and blood to refuse adequate provis-
ion for its returned tuberculous soldiers.
Money from Red Cross Seals will open
the way for this service.
Science has acknowledgement beyond
peradyenture of REPUTATION that tubercu-
losis is durable. Proper environment, prop
er dietinge plenty of fresh air, cleaniless
of person and surroundings-these things
are modern sciences prescriptions for
eradication Of tuberculosis, which is daily
Staying more people, young and old, than
all the guns of Europe's battlefields. &
The New Mexico Public Health Associa-
ion is a prominent branch of a world
wide organization whose purpose is to
teach how and why tuberculosis can be
prevented and its victims cured. It's work
is purely educational except that it pro.
poses to maintain tuberculosis dispense
ries and support public health nurses. 1t
does not pretend to handle individual
cases, because its funds are not sufficient
to even begin a task as gigantic as treat
ment of the thousands of cases that exist
this state. But by spreading the gospel
Of prevention, it can accomplish a vast
amount of good and, eventually, restore
New Mexico's citizenship to the physical
perfection with which it was endowed
when it crossed the threshold of life. The
funds for the work Of the New Mexico
Public Health Association are secured
from the sale OF Red Cross Seals.
future years the memory Of il softens
many a sorrow and drives off many a re-