Show Our City's Health By ISABEL MOYLE Summit County Nurse Since the recent tuberculosis tests were made Innumerable questions have been asked as to whether the school schoolchildren schoolchildren children were being tested for tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis or Just for the miners miner's con These tests were given primarily for a survey of the prevalence of this disease in certain mining localities throughout the state If It they served to create oc occupational oc- oc occupational occupational phobias they defeated their own end There Is a 0 similarity between pul pul- pulmonary pulmonary pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis sis or so-called so miners consumption since being affected by one greatly pre pre- predisposes predisposes pre pre- predisposes disposes toward susceptibility to the i other Pulmonary tuberculosis is an In Inflammatory in- in inflammatory inflammatory disease of the lungs caused by the bacillus tuberculosis pneumoconiosis is an occupational disease excited excited ed by the constant inhalation of or Irritating irritating irritating ing dusts such as stone dust challco- challco sis coal dust or metal dust The presence of ot these dusts causes a Do fibrosIs and Inflammation tion of lung tissues and thus weakens the lung making it a 0 fertile ferUle field for forthe forthe forthe the growth of the bacillus tuberculosis When the thorax is opened the lung Is I found retracted and the heart displaced The lung Is tough firm and more or less airless Section shows an overgrowth of ot fibrous tissue The same symptoms may be present in both diseases although In the case of pneumoconiosis there is rarely fever and the general health may be preserved for tor years Any suspect should be under the di direct dl- dl I care caro of a 0 competent doctor and not I Just accept his fate as inevitable In this way his own case may be arrested and the infection of the other members of or his family averted |