Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-25 | Are We All Diseased?

v : M' j r ARE WE ALL DISEASED? i ,i On of the most learned of medical men is quoted as saying that 65 per cent of the people who suffered of influenza are tubercular, H and another doctor, equally as distinguished, declares nearly 100 per Hp I cent of the inhabitants of our cities are afflicted. This is alarming, if true. As Mark Twain said of the premature rumor of his death it may be somewhat exaggerated. But there is no doubt as to the spread of tuberculosis, due to the influenza. One of the trained nurses in Ogden has notified the health authorities that cases of Uiberculosis originating in this city ' jare beginning to appear. There was a time when the disease was 'confined to those who came in from the outside. In this climate $he germs do not thrive, if ordinary sanitarj- conditions are pro-vided. pro-vided. j Homes where the affliction has been discovered some times give a history of repeated cases. Great precaution should be taken to cleanse a place where the disease claims a victim. As to the people of cities being attacked, it is to be expected that those who live the unnatural lives of the average person in a fl ' large communit' will become the easy prey of a scourge. 7 The war sent man- boys home with impaired lungs. At the lo-cal lo-cal relief station of the Red Cross, there arc over 200 soldier boys listed, of whom a per cent are young men who were gassed. The after-effects of gas are many. Quite often the lungs only partially recover their strength and finally they fail to function to the extent of breaking down under a tubercidar attack. So the war gave to Amcrida as much personal misery as national glory. j What is the cure for tuberculosis? Hg i Not a trip to Arizona or elsewhere, but a going back to the pri- Hg mary rules of right living. Fresh air, wholesome, plain food, rest Hj and exercise; also as much cheerfulness as can be crowded into a H3 mind filled with forebodings of the end. Hi I But the best cure for the disease is prevention. Those who are Hj ! t jirinding out their existence in a manner that denies to them a few Hours each day of delightful recreation, outdoor life and a change of mental environment where the spectre of Death is to be seeu iu pursuit of the wayfarer, and the pursued is Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk iu fear and dread, And having once turned round walks 'on And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend 4 .-V Doth close behind him tread. Tuberculosis is no longer classed as incurable, though it is a disease dis-ease which must be quickly and intelligently fought off. "It is also recognized as one of the preventable disease