Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1920-12-15
FIGHT AGAINST
TUBERCULOSIS
BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS AND AID
WAR.

Tuberculosis in the United States
kills yearly $50. coo persons--of these
$4,000 are married and over 1900
are children under i've years OF age.
Over 10000 orphans are ieft annu
ally az result Of tuberculosis.
Most ooasefyasiyely estimated.
there are over I.00o.0 900 active cases
OF tabercuiosis today ia the United
States In MARYLAND, there we're
1851 deaths in 1919 from tuberculosis
and about IO.S0s active cases This
means an economic loss in wages
loss conservatively estimated =,
s5.666.40o
In an address on The Larger Field
q Tuberculosis Work, I sDy DR.. Allen
X Krause, OF Johns Hopkins Medical
School. he sayg "xYe already have
in our hands all the necessary medi-
cal and scientfdc information upon
which may be based the premises for
a progressive programme against in
fection. morbidity and mortality.
The vigorous campaign against tu
bereuIosis under the leadership o.
national and State tuberculosis asso
citations. has been large faetor il
the marked reduction OF the deatf
rate from tuberculosis with the Result
ant saving al present Of $4,000 lives
year.
The 6ght against tuberculosis,
which is now being made by the
Maryland tuberculosis Association, is
your fight 1t Is being made for yon.
II smallpox were killing one in every
ten OF our population. we would un
doubtedly pay some attention TO il
we would very likely support those
who were endeavoriag 10 check its
disaster You would be very much
afraid It would strike one Of your
loved ones. yet tuberculosis today IN
gour community is infinitely more
dangerous, harder to treat, causing
much more and longer suffering than
does smallpox II comes SO quietly,
gets its hold on its victims so slowly,
IS 40 general, that we are apt to me-
glect It,
In Baltimore City 1t Is conserva.
lively estimated that over $7.000.o00
Is spent annually for public and priv.
ate FIRE protection Of all kinds, in.
Guiding Are insurance premiums. II
is also estimated that the actual prop
erty loss within Baltimore City limits
was about s750,O00 for 1919 and the
same year 81 lives were lost through
fire. We wisely pay enormous sums
to protect ourselves from this actual
and potential Are danger.
tuberculosis the same year cost Bal
timore economically about $3,204,0e0.
1t cost much more-lt cost 1885 lives
We are paying comparatively insig-
aiflcant sum for tuberculosis protec-
ion
When fire is discovered an alarm
Is sounded, aid is rushed to save life
ana property. Every effort is made
20 keep it from spreading Tubercu-
losis is too often passed by almost
unnoticed. 1t will continually spread
unless checked. Shall we not en-
deayor to give more proportionate at
tention to the greater danger
In contributing to the work Of the
Maryland tuberculosis Association.
you are not giving to charity. ron
are helping prevent the need for char
ity. you are investing IN a protection
to yourself and your family. as vel
as TO the community in which you
live. About 95 per cent. Of the sup.
port OF the Maryland Tuberculosis AS
sociation has come from the proceeds
of the Christmas seal sale. The larger
the sums OF money given TO combat
the ravages or tuberculosis. the great
er should be the life-savirg results.
To quote from Sir Arthur News
holme. the eminent British tuherculo,
sis authority. III an address given ne
fore d State tuberculosis Conference;
IN this antitubereulosis propa-
ganaa. IL We want to make money We
must spend It. Every penny spent in
securing Il reduction Of tuberculosis
will bring interest many, many fold
II we want to save money We will be
worse than the man who hid his
money in a napkin