What you should know about tuberculosis . 14 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW by means of the tubercle bacilli in thematerial coughed up from the diseasedlungs, which often contains millions ofthese Scrubbing the Walls to Get Rid of Germs. The germs get out of the body of aperson w ho has tuberculosis, not only inthe material which is coughed up, butalso in the little drops, too small to beseen, which are sprayed out when personswith tuberculosis cough or sneeze. ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS 15 Great care should be taken to de-stroy all material coughed up by theconsumptive, and to avoid carelesscoughing an
What you should know about tuberculosis . 14 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW by means of the tubercle bacilli in thematerial coughed up from the diseasedlungs, which often contains millions ofthese Scrubbing the Walls to Get Rid of Germs. The germs get out of the body of aperson w ho has tuberculosis, not only inthe material which is coughed up, butalso in the little drops, too small to beseen, which are sprayed out when personswith tuberculosis cough or sneeze. ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS 15 Great care should be taken to de-stroy all material coughed up by theconsumptive, and to avoid carelesscoughing and sneezing. If this is notdone, and if the sputum is discharged onthe floor or carpets or clothing the germsmay live for months, especially in dark,damp, unvcntilated bedrooms, livingrooms, and work-rooms. The germs will live in the darknessand dampness for a long time, and arestirred up in dusting and sweeping theserooms, and float in the air and may bebreathed into the lungs, or may fall uponarticles of food and be taken into thebody in that way. It is not safe to move into a houseor rooms in which a patient with tuber-culosis has lived until such house orrooms have been thoroughly cle
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