Show Daily Health Service Hard Times Increase Tuberculosis Spread By DR MORRIS EIl In times like these with their eco ceo economic economic depressions unemployment and resultant suffering tuberculosis finds the causes caUSe which Increase se its intensity In the first place those lucky enough to find work dare not spare apere the time to be treated for the disease And In the second place those out of work C cannot spend what whit little ut they may have for medical care car and the American citizen clUzen by his very Ls La disinclined to accept unconditionally oily ally free medical service With such conditions prevailing today to today da day the attack upon tuberculosis should be more serious than ever The person who has been without satisfactory food whose body Is weakened weak weak- weakened ened by starvation starvation n and nd by exposure presents the ideal soil for tor IncreasIng increasing ing intensity in the he spread of the disease se The famous Edward L. L Trudeau who devoted his life to the study of tuberculosis found that rabbits inoculated with the d disease ase if it confined in damp dark places without sunshine or fresh air rapidly succumbed while others treated in the same some way but allowed to run wild either recovered recovered recovered re re- re- re covered or cr had the disease in a much milder form Occupants of cellars and undernourished undernourished workers worker crowded together under un der bad conditions ere are like the rabbits of Trudeau Crowded living conditions it must be remembered not only interfere with development of health gener ally but afford more opportunities for contact between well persons and those with this disease than occur inless in inless inless less crowded q quarters arters Moreover once the disease becomes b omes established the opportunity for recovery recovery ery cry is much less among the poor than among the well to do The poor who do n not t h have ve the advantages of good nursing o or 0 of the best type of medi medi- medical medical I cal care Parents who arc arc attacked by this disease among the poor are more likely to convey it to their children The general state slate of ot nutrition begins to become less as the depression goes on At first the parents parent feed their children children children chil chil- I dren but later as food becomes more snore and more difficult to secure even the diet of the children suffers Naomi Past Noble Nobe Grands club will give its Christmas party Thursday at 1 p. p m. m with Mrs C. C M. M Eberly East Eighth St. St Margarets Margaret's guild guId of St. St Marks Mark's cathedral cathedra will meet Thursday at p. p mj m. with Mrs H. H L. L McKinnell 1280 Crystal avenue Mrs E. E R. R Bring is ls assisting hoste hostess Dorcas society of the First Presbyterian Presby Presby- terian lerian church will meet at the home of Mrs W W. S. S Barwick 1339 Bryan aven avenue e. e Thursday at t 2 p. p m. m The hospital sewing committee of at atthe the Womans Woman's league will meet Thursday afternoon n at Holy Cross CrOM hospital Ladies' Ladies auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Foreign For- For eign Wars No will wUl meet Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day at 8 p. p m. m m. m at the Newhouse hoteL Members are urged to be present |