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Show ,11 """ "'" 1 1 im" i n i , Health and Beauty - By - f , , mii'iii"" DR. SOPHIA BRUNSON mi mm ; , 1 t-.HIIIIIIIH1"11 15,000 patients revealed that 4.1 per cent were suffering from active ac-tive tuberculosis previously unsuspected. unsus-pected. Although these people were routinely rou-tinely X-rayed in the interest of a tuberculosis diagnosis it also was discovered that 8 per cent of them had abnormal heart conditions. condi-tions. Thus we see that if every community com-munity with the cooperation of the boards of health, would hold periodic examinations for tuberculosis tuber-culosis and X-ray the chests of all the subjects, thousands of cases would be discovered. They could be treated and many lives saved. The spread of the disease to members of their families and to the community at large would be prevented. We must wake up and realize that one unsuspected and untreated untreat-ed case of tuberculosis may become be-come the means of infecting many others, causing untold suffering misery and death. EAKLY DIAGNOSIS OP TUBERCULOSIS TM American Medical Associa-S Associa-S its meetinpf in Chicago, ti0nl Social attention to the im- of early diagnosis and Pr tment of tuberculosis. Lr the fisht to rid the Dfry of tuberculosis, Dr. Ken-Emerson. Ken-Emerson. New York manng- tor of the national assol In said- "Only by concerted of the public and official filth departments can we hope J, hold the spread of the disease tn a mlniivum" , , war breeds tuberculosis, Col. A R Lng' M- D" U S-estimated S-estimated that 130,000 men been rejected for tuberculoid tuberculo-id either in the active stage or J, "a stage potentially active. A -view of X-ray films of men accented ac-cented for the army indicates that there may be 10,000 soldiers already al-ready in the army with tuberculosis tubercu-losis which was not detected at the time of examination. The U. S Public Health Service established a tuberculosis control office soon after war was declared. declar-ed. One of its main purposes was to see that war workers and those associated with them receive X-ray X-ray examinations. A total of 658,817 persons have been examined. One and three tenths per cent had tuberculosis and were in need of treatment. In order to rid the country of the disease it is necessary to have have the cooperation of the whole community with the board of public pub-lic health. One of the leading tuberculosis specialist says that "routine X-ray examination of the chest of all individuals coming under medical or surgical treatment is indispensable." indispen-sable." At the outclinic department of the Billings hospital at the University Uni-versity of Chicago, X-raying- of |