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Show HBHBJ hhhhb IhI I : j H WARFARE AGAINST CONSUMPTION WK Why Fight It. Hsi The Charity Organization Society of Now York, In n hnnd-book on the prevention pre-vention of tuberculosis, encourages tho active campaign against this great plague and gives n concise summary of "Why" tho battle should be waged. Because more people die of consumption con-sumption than from any other disease. dis-ease. Kach yvar 1,005,000 or the people of the world die or It. In the United States over 100,000 die every yenr of consumption. Kvery day -1,000, and each minute of the dny two persons fall before this enemy. How many of your friends have died of It? Because It Is a disease which spreads from one person to another, and any ono may cntch it. Because It Is chlofly caused by tho filthy habit of spitting. Becauso It Is a disease which can be stopped, and need not spread. Because every one may and should linln nrnii If Becntuse already there Is chango for the better. The number of deaths from consumption Is growing less. Twenty years ago there wore many more deaths ln proportion to the population pop-ulation than now. If the tuberculosis death rato of 188G had been maintained the first nlno months of 1902, four thousand moro persons In Manhattan nnd the Bronx would have died of tuberculosis thnn actually died ln theso months. Could anything he found more In- I spiring, more plainly Indicative of the need for extending the work against this disease? |