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Show L STEADY GROWTH ! IN SEAL SALE! Part of Money Collected Dur-' inn Campaign to Combat White Plague That n lively Interest In the Ch. 'st-mas 'st-mas Seal campaign Lb being bjf citizens of Ogden is evidenced from (HEAUTHYNrw ffiK ercuioi8 cases, will ! woo'w--J " continued next Je.tr - Secretary George D Bennett ol Lhc local organisation. J'ortv-five per ent of the money received re-ceived through the sale of Christmas seals is expended for public health, nursing and emergency relief In localities lo-calities where no relief is available, l T n per cent of the money is to be I v,sod forv'atc traveling tuberculosis clinic, wlui' 26 pet cent Of tho pro- r.-.ds win hf useri for educational fatuities. fa-tuities. Thlfl Will Include the estah- lishraent ot modern health crusade, i btate fair exhibits and traveling ex- 1 hiblts. , , . j steady increase in sales 18 noted I in'ogden and a continued Increase Is M , xi' . U-.l during the coming two we I S, m according to Secretary Bennett Four minute women of the clly Will st .r: their speaking campaigns De- w comber lth in the varlou theatres of the city. The four minute men will I open their campaigns Saturday night fl of this week. WHAT T. B. IS In Bpeaklng of tuberculosis Secre-H Secre-H lary Dennct said in part today: HI "Tuberculosis is an Infectious dis- ease caused by a micro-organism or Hi minute germ called the tubercle Ba- 1 clllua The germs are found most H commonly In the sputum of those suf- i v Ith the dlseast Th H i found occasionally in pus discharges 1 . from other organs Or parts of the body H m. affected by tuberculous disease, BUCh, H i I for example, as the Icnee joint. Al-H Al-H f jnost every adult person has become infected- That does not mean that H J evervone has the disease tubercu-1 tubercu-1 losls". It does mean thai the germs 1 have found entrance to the body and ' impressed themselves upon the tissues LV I Di ln such a manner that their pre.-' can be detected by certain well-recbg- nlced tests. Tho disease Is never her- edltary but is always acquired after birth. The belief is benig mon and more widely accepted that most in- fectlons occur in childhood. "The prolonged intimate association fl of healthy persons with thoi- haying fl active tuberculosis leads to Infection. Infection may be acq ilrcd also m dcr some clrcumst:'.. the lu) of the dust of d'ied no g oui:d up sputum in the hou3e nd on the streets. More corn only, however, as a mode of nifection the perms are con-Veyed con-Veyed to the mouth upon the fingers of children who have been playing in contaminated pi the fl 'S, slde- valks, gutters. 1c., or with food tandled by careless consumptives. Milk from tuberculosis COWS Is also n common source of lnfectlon Infection may occur, too. by com nig in contact fl with droplets coughed or sneezed 'by careless consumptives in the home, crowded cars, shops nad places of as-j as-j Bembly There can be no Infection nor tu-Iherculosis. tu-Iherculosis. however, without the germ |