Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-12-20

= Beware tuberculosis after n I
= aaenxa. Ne need to VERY II 4
r you take precautions In timo.
= Don't diagnose ysur own cen
4 dition. Have your doctor exam 4
4 inc your lungs several times at 4
4 monthly intervals. Build up your 4
4 strength with right living. good 4
4 food and plenty Of fresh cir. 4
4 Don't waste money - patent 4
4 medicines advertised to cure to
4 berculosis. 4
4 Become . fresh-air crank a. 4
4 enjsy life. 4
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washinstea, D. C.-(apscial)-Ac.
eording to q report made to he Unitsd
States Public Health osFvies. ths ~
demic Of influenza n Spain Aas u
ready caused IN increase b ~ peova-
lence and deaths from Dalnsaaxy -
berculoois. A similar aGDoclat1oo -
tween inAusnaa and tuberculosis va
recently made b. Cir AxtAW News.
holme, the chief medical e0eee e IL
English pubic health ssevics, n HI
analysis Of Tie tuberculosis AeatA so1s
In England
In order that the people q he Unit
Cd States nay profit b. the exDeElenee
Of other ceuntries Surgeon 0saseal
Rupert Blue Of the United States Pub
lie Health Service has Just issued Q
warning emphasixing the need q -
cial precautions at the pressat tinA.
Experience seems to indicate." sayD
the. Surgeoa General, ''that persoao
whose resistance has beea weaksae1
by an attack Of influenza are peculiar
ly susceptible to tuberculosis with
millions Of its people recently a1sctsd
with influenza this county now -
fers conditions fayerins IL spread e
tuberculosis"
One Million csnsumptlvse n Ne
United States.
"Then you consider this q sorious
menacer was asked. "In. ny Opinien
1t Is, though hasten to add II u d.
tinctly one against which the people
can guard So fAr - enc can estimate
there are at present about enc ulllton
cases Of tuberculosis h TIE United
States. There u m6oetunately -
complete census available - show e.
actly the number Of tuberculosis pee-
sons In each state despite the fact tAat
most Of the states have made The dis-
ease rep0rtable. In New York clty,
where reporting has been IN fierce for
many years, over $500 cases Ct to
berculosis are registered with tAs D.
partment Of Health. These familiar
with the situation believe that the ~
dition Of unrecognized and unrspertel
cases would make the number nearer
$4,000 The very careful health sur.
vey conducted during the past I've
years in birmingham, NassL, revealed
200 cases Of tuberculosis In q pepula-
ton of approximately 1900. r these
proportions hold true for the United
States a. q whole they weuld indicate
that about one IN every hundred pr.
sons ID ,tuberculouA Zach Of theoo
constitutes q source - danger - -
guarded against"
What - %.
In his statement - IL public On.
geon General Blus peints cut NV
those who have hal inausnsa should
protect themselves against tubsrculo-
els. "All who have recovered from in
nuensa." says the Surgeon General
should have their lungs carefully az
amined b compsteat DAysiciaA. IN
fact It - desirable b have several n
aminatious made psatA apsrt 0ueA
examinations cannot - naAs through
the clothing nor can tAsy 30 carried
cut In two or three minutes. II IL
lungs are found ID - free freo tubee.
culosis every effort Gheul1 - naAo =
keep them -. This en- - dsns b.
right living. sssd fssd aAd plenty =
fresh air."
Danger ssnA
The Surgeon 0eaefal warned .esDop
elally against certain langsr agnS
such - decline" aAA ~eolds witch
hang on"
These, he explained, were often ne
of tubseculoGls II you 10
not get wen promptly. II your csld
seems to hang on or your health and
strength decline, rsnenbee Tat thsoo
are often tie early slsns e tubercule-
sis. Place yourself at saee unAer tAs
care Of competent DAysiclan. Tubw.
eulosis 10 durable b ~ early Stages.
Patent Medicines oaaOsssus n ruhss.
euooolo.
Above Ill 70 net truDt u ~ ~
leading statementD ofs unocFuDulouo
patent medicine faksra TAero = -
Dpecine medicine for TIE eurs q tuhee-
eulosis. TIE money spsat - sueA
Medicines u thrown away; e sAsalA
be spent instead IT. ges1 ~ - -
eat living"