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Show DON'! HAVE PH-ISIOPHOBIA PH-ISIOPHOBIA ' " 1 i !".'. "Don't be. a victim of Phthlsiopho-bia," Phthlsiopho-bia," is a warning sent out by the Utah Public Health Association. Plith-isiophobia, Plith-isiophobia, it is explained, is the morbid mor-bid dread of fear of tuberculosis. -: A 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 leper. But the careful consumptive who burns bis fpuctuni (spit), thoroughly disinfects hia 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 tr.otner snouia not nurse or care tor 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 outcast from society. Yet that is what often happens. In many barber bar-ber shops he Is refused service. Fellow Fel-low employes do not want to work beside be-side him. This Is not only unnecessary. unneces-sary. It is cruel. It deprives many p. harmless person of the comforts vhlch he especially needs. It destroys de-stroys his opportunity to earn an honest hon-est living and often makes of him a pauper or a tramp, ile is driven into in-to the cheapest lodging houses,, where lie cannot avoid spreading his infection, infec-tion, (Moreover the knowlerge that such . treatment threatens them, ctuses many men In the earlier and curable stages of the disease to refuse to take treatments or to observe precautions, pre-cautions, thereby exposing their associates as-sociates to the danger and permitting ihu disease to become so entrenched in their own systems that cure Is impossible. |