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Show BURN BUILDING TO KILL GERM Only Way to Get Rid of Them, and Occasion Was Made a Good Object Lesson. A ramshackle building in Winston-Salem Winston-Salem was recently burned at the request re-quest of the local Anti-Tuberculosis league, because it was said to be alive with tuberculosis germs and could not be properly fumigated. For days before the building was burned huge placards announcing the hour of destruction and giving reasons rea-sons for the burning were hung about in prominent places. Among other things the placards said: "Within the past 15 months two men who sold fruit, etc., here have died of tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, but unconsciously left millions of tuberculosis germs by careless spitting. The building is so open that it cannot be effectively fumigated. The only practical means of disinfecting disinfect-ing is by fire." At the appointed hour, while millions mil-lions pf tuberculosis germs were being be-ing burned, 5,000 pamphlets telling how to prevent consumption, were distributed dis-tributed to the crowd looking on. |