Show GIVE IT II THE PROPER NAME here Is a plea worded a bit differently now and then of of course is maa made each day in thousands to tens 0 of thousands ot of doctors and pleada a dont tell anybody that john his his consumption well be disgraced it you do just as SUM sure M am the world call it s om ethans elm cant ant you it Is because ot of this unreasoning unfounded tear fear tear fear on the part of those misguided families that their neighbors and others in the community will look down on thim them or will regard them as having been visit vigil ed by some evil that the average state has so BO much difficulty in finding out just how big its tu tuberculosis bercu losis problem la Is let us its drag tuberculosis out into i ille lie open out into the bright sun of where it can be viewed with without out fear fea or trepidation let us bring it forth from the darl alark corners in which it h has as been bean skulking tor for so many years let us show that the tuberculosis germ has a wider in the blood stream am of the race than has any other germ which kills hills by insidious Millous In and malignant attack slid and in the same movement let us u blazen from th tha house tolls that this germ la is no rep respecter ecter ot of persons that it attacks the rich and the poor the education and the ignorant the city dweller and the tie farmer the young and the eld mau man woman and child let hii us take immediate steps to as eure the public that poverty and crime have no more connection connection conne clion with tuberculosis than they have with nearsighted vision or lack ot of hair on the head let us give concrete instances ot of bankers bili kers merchants manufacturers lator lat or leaders farmers ministers lawyers club women end and others iho ho have been killed by tuberculosis we ean can show allow that many of the yost most beloved of composers many of the ni most st noted authors and many of the most highly respected and widely known of our statesmen leaders in III all the commercial world and leaders 0 of society have fallen victims of tuberculosis bercu losis and as ai we go about doing this let us continue to repeat that tuberculosis lo ils can be prevented that it can lie ie successfully treated and through competent medical and nursing attention sanatorium care and the tn I 1 other well established methods we are finding here and there certain communities which no longer regard tuberculosis with the same ir loathing athing that a well deve developed loped colony of booties cooties lii is regarded but chich ft men on the other hand recognize it as a community problem which must be met and solved in the same allol that the need for a public school system was met in these communities well informed men women and children in all walks of life welcome the opportunity to be examined at a clinic and tore ceide the helpful counsel of the visiting nurse other communities which still maintain the old time attitude altitude against tuberculosis and which con to regard the relatives and close friends of a consumptive RS as and therefore to be shunned will not begin to halfway solve their tuberculosis legi until they abolish that burdensome costly and wholly unfair superstition common sense is the big factor let us use it |