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Show OGDEN CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. A circular sent out from the east states that at least 600. 000 school children In the United States aro suffering suf-fering of tuberculosis and consequently conse-quently there Is urgent need of open-air open-air Instruction. Talking with one of the best Informed In-formed physicians of Ogden. the writer writ-er was told that medical authorities j are changing their opinion as to the , source of tubercular Infection, that 1 the theory Is now advanced that, Instead In-stead of breathing in the germs of the disease, the germs enter In our food, lodge on the tonsils and from the tonsils find their way to the lungs thro'igh the glands. And I wish to Impress on you," said this Ogden doctor, 'that meats which are not Inspected are the source of much of this Infection " The doctor further stated that the Ogden Medical association at one time named a committee to Inspect the slaughter houses and to arouse the public as to the danger from meat germs, but final action was not taken ' I now have a child afflicted with tuberculosis." said the doctor, "and. if the disease could be traced, I am satisfied Iho source of Infection would be found to be germ-ladened meats " This points to the necessity of an Inspection or to the importance of thoroughly boiling or frying all meats Doctors have noted that children with enlarged or diseased tonsils are subject to afflictions including rheumatism rheu-matism and the conclusion has been reached that, though the tonsilB In normal condition are safeguards against germ Intrusion, when diseased dis-eased they are sources of danger because, be-cause, instead of throwing off disease dis-ease germs, they harbor and transmit the germs to the most vulnerable glands of the body. With 600.000 school children suffering suf-fering of tuberculosis, the most important im-portant thing to do is not to seek a fresh air cure for those diseased, but to start a campaign which will have for its object the preventing of 600,- j 000 more children from being tainted. Why not begin that crusade In Ogden? oo |