The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-02

- 011l0A1AN side the body.
but we do not
o1cceed very well after 1t has
gained entrance. A short exposure
% direct sunlight, direct heat and
many antiScptics soon destroy the
loe&m. It Turks In dark. warm places.
ma usually enters the body
through the air passages. or In our
Nod.
The efforts to eradicate these
sGogms have engrossed many Of our
- thinkers and have cost many
s1n1llions Of dollars. We have partly
|JDIncceeded. for deaths from tuber-
11loois have decreased more than
,N0e- fourth In the last 40 years. Yet
- have Tar to 60 to accomplish its
sln9truction.
II Not Inherited
81 81 The contributing causes are
Finany and difncult to overcome.
%fany blame heredity. but that Is
I2f1ll Q question. True, tuberculosis
100 run In families. but 1t Is not
nhetited. Occasionally. q child Is
forn with tuberculosis. but 1t prob
kobly was infected before birth.
"a This Is an infectious disease and
can only enter the body by being
Iheoathed in or taken In by the
Gkomach by way Of tubercular In
noted food. such as milk from q
!, fuhercular COW. or 1t can enter by
Wa1 Of some wound. The members
- HE family In which an active
p&GGe Of Tuberculosis exists can
! oeSfcely escape infection. Even
With the greatest care, the germs
yin b dispersed into the air and
6eoathed In by the others near.
FOOD = almost certain to be In
6octed.
- a child IN . school room suffer-
1ng from the disease will spread 1t
% others. just Is other germ dis
eases may spread. One man In Z
factory may contaminate many.
That Il the reason that doctors and
health authorities are always
preaching isolation Of these pa
tents, and begging for sanitariums
whey they can best be treated and
taught how to protect those around
them.
"a . small, poorly ventilated
house, the patiept may reinfect
himself and perpetuate his disease.
~ years Of effort we have been
able to obtain sanitariums for the
treatment Of q comparative few.
! hut there are nine cases waiting for
every bed now in use. II only the
money spent for wars could be used
q care for these poor afflicted
eIeaturesi Then the disease would
ooon disappear from the earth. We
I'm millions and work day and
u1ght to cure one. Those nations
witch claim to b the most civilized
build the largest and best armies.
s Body Fights Germs
Fortunately. the vast majority Of
U possess something In our sys-
tens which combats these germs.
We al have noticed that though
toften members Of q family harbor-
TTzag . tubeFeular individual develop
4 The disease. some do not. or II they
20, they are able to overcome It.
|. Some individuals seem to be i'm
4 1uune to the disease.
The only evidence Of heredity to
!, consumption Il that the members
O1 . tubercular family do not offer
!, O. great resistance to the disease as
l others do. The same Is true of some
I races Of people. though 1t some
!. times seems that q race that has
never been subject to the disease
falls victim to its ravages more
3 quickly than one that has long
|,koen exposed. The Hebrew race,
Eyyhcoe civilization has been Of long
3 - duration. presents compare
|f1SOay few infections. The Negro
Eence. % well % the American Indi-
800 and Eslkimos. that did not come
r. contact with this disease until
[,1oao solvent Of the white man. con-
1GActs Il with only slight exposure
I'd succumbs quickly to its raw
VI Many Of our habits of life as well
,sno our economic conditions influ-
l'1nco our chances to contract OF
y0Vofoome the disease.
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