The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-10-16
START CAMP PAIGN
FOR MEMBERSHIP.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE
CAMPAIGN HEADED HERE
BY MRS. SEAL
League Issues Folder Giving De-
tails and Purposes of
Their Work

The annual membership campaign
for the Stevens County Anti-Tuber-
culosis League starts next Monday.
Mrs. J. G. Harrigan is county chair
man of the League, Mrs. S. H. Ben
der of Meyers Falls is secretary, and
Supt. G. L. Putnam of Colville is
treasurer.
Mrs. George w. Seal is local chair
man for the Colville membership
campaign, and each community in the
county has been given a local chair
man. u
The League has issued a folder
giving full details of the purposes
and work of the League, as follows:
The Great Menace
Every three minutes some one in
the United States dies from tuber-
culosis. One-tenth of all deaths due
to tuberculosis! One-fourth of all
sickness due to tuberculosis!
One-third of the poverty in the
world is due to tuberculosisi One
half of the cripples of the world due
to tuberculosis! States and counties
are struggling under increasing tax
burdens to care for an increasing
number of indigents who are in
capacitated by tuberculosis.
Yet tuberculosis is preventable and
durable.
Medicine will not prevent or cure
tuberculosis. 1t is prevented and
cured by right living.
Ordinary hospitals will not take
care of tubercular patients. 1t is
too contagious.
Stop the Transmission
tuberculosis, commonly called con-
sumption, is a disease process caused
by the growth in the body of tu-
bercls bacillus or germ. This germ
us aareea- shaped vegetable parasite
about 10000 of an inch long.
Growing in the body, this germ null
tiplies rapidly, destroys tissues, and
produces poisons that cause the we'll
known symptoms of the disease. The
commonest form is tuberculosis of
the lungs, but the disease may occur
in any part of the body, especially
in the joints of children.
tuberculosis is not an inherited
disease. But it is highly contagious,
and tubercular parents may quickly
infect their children. tuberculosis
is transmitted in the expectorations
of consumptives, in the breath, and
in the mouth or nose germs OF pa
tients who cough or sneeze -or~spit.
1t may be acquired by swallowing
germs with infected milk or food, and
sometimes by tubercular infection in
cuts or wounds.
tuberculosis is spread largely by
ignorance, carelessness, neglect, or
uncleanliness. Yet it can be cOntroll-
ed, cured, and entirely wiped out, by
organized effort. It's production of
poverty can be stopped by curing
those afflicted and preventing further
contagion.
Preventive Measures
Every state in the union is now
organized to stop the spread of this
expensive and dangerous disease.
There is National tuberculosis
Association. Each state has it's State
tuberculosis Association. Almost
every county has it's County Anti
tuberculosis League. We have
state law authorizing commissioners
to maintain tuberculosis sanitarium
and employ specially trained tuber-
culosis nurse.
tuberculosis Nurse
Stevens county has a well organiz-
ed Anti-tuberculosis league. The
commissioners have authorized the
employment of tuberculosis nurse
for work throughout. the county. Ste
vens county's cost of caring for tu-
bercular indigents has mounted so
high that preventive measures must
be taken to cut the cost. Prevention
of poverty caused by tuberculosis is
the only hope of saving the taxpay-
ers. Prevention of contagion is the
only hope for health in the future.
The foundation for this disease is
usually laid in childhood. The disease
must be stopped at the start, and at
its source. 1t can be stopped.
Modern Health Crusade
A movement throughout the nation
whereby school children are taught
the duties of sanitation, cleanliness,
promptness, regularity, and pride in
work well done. Stevens county has
an excellent record in this work, un-
der the direction of w. o. Cummings,
the county superintendent of schools.
II is the first step in making good
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