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Show THE WHITE PLAGUE On Tuesday, March 19, a mobile X-ray unit will examine more than 200 Milfordites for evidences of tuberculosis. It is a voluntary vol-untary program with no one being compelled com-pelled to submit to the X-ray. This is an opportunity for a free check-up that should not be passed by. Many persons who suspect possible infection have traveled trav-eled to Salt Lake or other cities and paid $10 or more for a picture of their lungs, in addition ad-dition to transportation, hotel and restaurant restau-rant expenses. Others, in this and other parts of the state, have become so seriously infected, before realizing they had contracted contract-ed the disease, that a cure was all but impossible. im-possible. Tuberculosis can be cured. If treatment is begun soon after infection, a complete cure is comparatively easy. If allowed to spread and get a strong foothold, the disease takes on the aspects of a leech, sapping strength, energy, and finally life. Persons who handle food of any type must be free from tubercular infection. It is as contagious as any disease, far more contagious con-tagious than most. Employers of food handlers han-dlers owe to the community they serve the knowledge beyond the slightest doubt , that their employes are absolutely free from this disease. This is a voluntary examination, but every food-handler employer should insist that his employes be X-rayed. He shoudn't send them to the X-ray unit he should set the example and lead them. |