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Show DON'T HAVE PH- " TUOPii "Don't be a victim of Phthlslopho-biaV Phthlslopho-biaV is a warning sent out by the Utah Public Health Association. Phth-isiophobia, Phth-isiophobia, it is explained, is the morbid mor-bid dread of fear of tuberculosis. reasonable fear of .tuberculosis Is desirable because tuberculosis Is a disease to be dreaded and guarded" against. The careless consumptive who spits promiscuously and neglects to observe the other necessary precautions pre-cautions is far more dangerous to the public and especially to the members af his family than a h-per. But the careful consumptive who burns his tpuctum (spit), thoroughly disinfects his clothing, handkerchiefs, dishes, etc., by boiling or by antiseptic solutions, solu-tions, coughs only In his handkerchief or paper napkin, sleeps alone, etc., is not a menace to anyone and may safely safe-ly associate with his fellow men. . A consumptive should not, of course, handle children and the tuberculosis mother should not nurse or care for her infant because children are especially es-pecially susceptible to Infection. But there is no reason why a careful consumptive should be treated as an. j outcast from society. Vet that Is what often happens. In many bar-jber bar-jber shops he is refused service. Fel- low employes do not want to work be-Iside be-Iside him. This is not only unnecessary. unneces-sary. . It is cruel. It deprives many ! harmless person of the comforts vhlch he especially needs, it de-Ftroys de-Ftroys his opportunity to earn an hon-ict-i living and often makes of him a jptuper or a tramp. He is driven In-i In-i to the cheapest lodging houses, where J, he cannot avoid spreading his lnfec-ition. lnfec-ition. Moreover the knowlerge that such treatment threatens them, ctuses many men In the earlier and j curable stages of the disease to refuse to take treatments or to observe precautions, pre-cautions, thereby exposing their os.-jseclatea os.-jseclatea to the danger and permitting jthq disease to become so entrenched in their own systems that cure is impossible. im-possible. P1 il I I M--i.iini..iir-. ''I I 1 |
