Epidemics; how to meet them . 40 A GOOD TEACHER. [ Happiness, first of all, in health.— Phillips Brooks. TUBERCULOSIS: ITS PREVENTION ANDTREATMENT The war with the germs of tuberculosis, or consump-tion, as it is commonly called, after twenty years ofhard fighting, is still going on. This disease carries offyoung men and women just as they are entering upontheir years of responsibility and usefulness. One thirdof all the deaths which occur between the ages of twentyand forty-five are due to tuberculosis in some of itsvarious forms. Should there be an outbreak of a few cases of small-pox, great
Epidemics; how to meet them . 40 A GOOD TEACHER. [ Happiness, first of all, in health.— Phillips Brooks. TUBERCULOSIS: ITS PREVENTION ANDTREATMENT The war with the germs of tuberculosis, or consump-tion, as it is commonly called, after twenty years ofhard fighting, is still going on. This disease carries offyoung men and women just as they are entering upontheir years of responsibility and usefulness. One thirdof all the deaths which occur between the ages of twentyand forty-five are due to tuberculosis in some of itsvarious forms. Should there be an outbreak of a few cases of small-pox, great alarm would be felt, the entire communitywould be aroused, and decided efforts would be put forthto prevent its spread. Tuberculosis is with us in en-demic form all the time. It is possibly as contagiousas smallpox, and equally fatal. There is this difference,however, smallpox carries off its victims in a few days,while consumption does its work more slowly, but not 41 42 Epidemics: Hovj to Meet Them less surely. The patient begins to cough,
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