. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . onal census office tells us there is a general improvement downthe line, the older cities showing great improvement, the younger cities show-ing some improvement, the country districts showing a little loss, but notenough to neutralize the gain. The death rate from consumption in Chicago is less than was the typhoidrate twenty years ago. The typhoid rate is not one-twentieth of the ratetwenty years ago. Within the next twenty years the consumption rate willbe chopped to pieces. People generally see that, and therefore they want toknow everything they can about
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . onal census office tells us there is a general improvement downthe line, the older cities showing great improvement, the younger cities show-ing some improvement, the country districts showing a little loss, but notenough to neutralize the gain. The death rate from consumption in Chicago is less than was the typhoidrate twenty years ago. The typhoid rate is not one-twentieth of the ratetwenty years ago. Within the next twenty years the consumption rate willbe chopped to pieces. People generally see that, and therefore they want toknow everything they can about consumption. The Relation of Inheritance to Consumption.—A few children havebeen born tuberculous. The child when born contained tubercle bacilli in itstissues. The tubercle bacilli were passed from an infected mother into thebody of the unborn child. Such are cases of inherited tuberculosis. Thesecases are rare, so rare as to be medical curiosities. That is all there is toinherited tuberculosis. 70 FACTS ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS 71. As we go through life, we are attacked by tubercle bacilli from time totime. Therefore the ability to throw off tubercle bacilli is a highly importantquestion. People have this ability in varying degrees. Some are extremelyresistant; others are but little so. Resistance is modified in different ways. We strengthen resistance bybreathing fresh air, eating good food, and exercising. The life insurance tables show that fat people have a lower tuberculosisrate than thin ones. This means that people who for one reason or anotherare more liable to tuberculosis than the average will lessen their chances ofhaving the disease by keeping somewhat overweight. Some inherit a lowered resistanceto tuberculosis. If more than one-twelfth of the members of a family dieof consumption the family is a con-sumptive family. Of course, in orderto draw any conclusion at all, it isnecessary to get the cause of death ofat least 100. Statisticians, after carefully study-ing fami
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