The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-11-30
HELP TO STAMP OUT
"T. B." BY BUYING
CHRISTMAS SEALS

In the days of Knights and FAIRIES
and three-headed, fire-breatning mon
sters, all the strength of the Knights
and all the magic of the fairies was
pitted against the ruthlessness of
the fire-breathing beast when he in
'vaded the land and left death in his
Wake.
| And yet in the fair state of South
i Carolina, there stalks spectre far
more deadly than the three-headed
! monster of olden times, spectre
whose trail is marked by suffering
: and desolation and death. This
deadly thing that goes so stealthily
and fleet! footed through the land
is the "Great White Plague. And
; there is only a half-hearted pitting
of forces to stop the ravages of this
CHASTITY monster.
In South Craolina at the present
time there are known to be more
than 10000 active cases Of tnbercul-
osis, a large per cent of which is
among the working people of the
state. Of this number about three
fourths of the cases are young
people between the ages of 20 and
35 years of age. The tragic part
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these cases are in sanitoria, thus
leaving more than $1,000 cases in
the homes throughout the state.
In most of these homes, the people
are ignorant of the methods of pre-
vention and cure, and are not only
losing the fight against tubercu-
losis but are greatly endangering the
lives of those with whom they come
in contact.
Many of these cases are of the
ambulatory type and are to be found
on the streets, in moving picture
theatres and other public places
where, through ignorance and care
lessness, they are jcodpardizing the
| lives of those about them. In the
homes of these cases are more than
10000 children who are constantly
exposed to the disease and who will
develop it later, probably, unless
taught to prevent it.
Of the $1,000 cases in South Caro-
lima at least 60 per cent, or $500,
could be cured if proper treatment
were available, and large per cent
of the others could be so improved
that they could earn living and be
perfectly safe to themselves and to
the public.
The recent report of the Framing
ham, Mass, demonstration showed
that in Framingham, where adequate
financial, medical and educational
provision was made for the fight
against tuberculosis during the last
eight years, the death rate from this
disease had been reduced two-thirds,
This same thing can be done in
South Carolina. 1t would mean
the reduction of the annual number
of cases from 10000 to $500 ip- eight
years, and in few additional years
the disease could be wiped out of the
state.
At the present time the South
Carolina tuberculosis Association
with its related local associations, the
Richland Anti-Tuberculosis, the An
derson, Charleston, Greenville and
Greenwood County Associations, are
| cooperating with the state and local
boards of health in the fight to rid
South Carolina of the Great White
Plague" These organizations are
principally financed by the sale of
Christmas seals. All of them are
pitifully handicapped for lack of
money with which to carry on the
programs they have already under
taken, much less being able to carry
out the larger program they must
adopt if tuberculosis is to be wiped
out of South Carolina.
The annual sale of Christmas seals
begins December 1st and continues
until Christmas. Every seal bought
is one step nearer the goal and sharp
ems the weapon used in the fight
| against this disease.
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