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Tuberculosis
KEEP WELL SERIES No. 3
TREASURY DB^ATMENT
UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
GOVERNMENT PRINTINQ OFFICE
This pamphlet was prepared es-
pecially for the information of sol-
diers, sailors, marines, and nurses
discharged from military duty, and
is designed to help those who are
ill regain health and strength and
to stimulate the interest in public-
health matters, awakened during
their service with the military
forces.
How to Avoid Tuberculosis
^TUBERCULOSIS is caused by a living
* germ in the lungs. The body of a
healthy person will resist its growth and
may kill the germs, but in a weak body
and without proper care the germs multi-
ply until the lungs are consumed and the
person dies.
These germs are found in the sputum
(spit) of a consumptive in small numbers
in the very early stages of the disease, in
larger numbers as the disease progresses,
and in countless millions in the late stages.
Among the earlier symptoms which one
can observe, and which should lead one at
once to consult a physician, are: Slight
cough, lasting a month or longer; loss of
weight; slight fever in the afternoon; bleed-
ing from the lungs.
Many persons who have these early
symptoms of tuberculosis lose valuable
time, and often their only chance of recov-
ery, by relying on the promises of patent-
medicine fakers and medical quacks.
Don't take patent medicines and don't go
to quack doctors who advertise that they
cure tuberculosis by some method known
only to themselves.
13052G 19 3
WHAT TO DO.
If you think you have consumption, go at
once to a private physician or to a tubercu-
losis clinic or dispensary.
Make sure that your lungs are carefully
examined. Remember that this can not be
done unless the chest has been entirely un-
covered. Therefore have no confidence in
a doctor who examines your lungs through
your clothing, or, worse still, prescribes for
your cough without even examining your
lungs.
If there is any suspicion of tuberculosis,
your sputum should be examined micro-
scopically. This is usually done free of
charge by the State Board of Health.
Your local health officer will help you to
get the examination made.
SOME FACTS.
Every three minutes some one in the
United States dies from consumption.
One hundred and fifty thousand persons
die from it in the United States each year.
One person of every ten who die in the
United States dies of consumption.
THINGS TO REMEMBER.
1. Fresh air is as necessary to health as
pure and nourishing food.
2. People should not sleep in overcrowded
rooms, nor with closed windows.
3. Homes and workshops must be clean
and thoroughly ventilated. Dirt and
impure air are the allies of tuberculosis.
4. Persons with colds or coughs of long
standing or persons who are losing in
weight or strength should consult a doc-
tor or go to a dispensaiy or clinic. It is
dangerous to wait.
5. Careless spitting spreads the disease.
Sick persons should burn their spit.
6. Though 110 one should ever sleep with
a consumptive, a careful consumptive is
not dangerous to those with whom he
lives and works.
7. The large majority of people probably
have had tuberculosis in their systems,
but they do not become sick with it be-
cause they take good care of their gen-
eral health and strength.
8. Always cover your mouth and nose with
a handkerchief when you cough or
sneeze and insist on others doing the
same.
LEARN TO LOVE FRESH AIR.
When you come in from outdoors and
find the air in your rooms stale and stuffy
and foul smelling, open the windows wide
and let in plenty of fresh air from outside.
Open the door, too, so that the fresh air
can freely enter.
Become a fresh-air crank even at the
risk of being disliked. Better a live fresh-
air crank than an almost lifeless hothouse
invalid.
Do all you can to avoid crowds in closed
or poorly ventilated rooms. Not only does
the bad air lower your resistance, but you
are in danger of catching disease from
others.
Don't ride in a crowded street car when
you are going only a short distance. Walk !
Walk a mile in the open air twice a day.
It will add ten years to your life; if you
don't believe it, try it and see.
Keep the windows of your bedroom wide
open, day and night, even in winter. You
can't overdose yourself with fresh air, and
disease germs can't endure it.
For further information on tuberculosis, see your local health officer,
or write to your State Board of Health, or to the United States Public
Health Service, Washington, D. C.
Other Publications on Tuberculosis
UCSOUTHERMREGIpNAUIBRARY FACILITY
TUBERCULOSIS: ITS PREDISPOSING
CAUSES. No. 3. Supplement to Public
Health Reports.
TUBERCULOSIS: ITS NATURE AND
PREVENTION. No. 36. Public Health
Bulletin.
CLIMATE AND TUBERCULOSIS. No.
387. Reprint from Public Health Reports.
For copies of the above
Address UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
KEEP WELL SERIES No. 3
TREASURY DB^ATMENT
UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
GOVERNMENT PRINTINQ OFFICE
This pamphlet was prepared es-
pecially for the information of sol-
diers, sailors, marines, and nurses
discharged from military duty, and
is designed to help those who are
ill regain health and strength and
to stimulate the interest in public-
health matters, awakened during
their service with the military
forces.
How to Avoid Tuberculosis
^TUBERCULOSIS is caused by a living
* germ in the lungs. The body of a
healthy person will resist its growth and
may kill the germs, but in a weak body
and without proper care the germs multi-
ply until the lungs are consumed and the
person dies.
These germs are found in the sputum
(spit) of a consumptive in small numbers
in the very early stages of the disease, in
larger numbers as the disease progresses,
and in countless millions in the late stages.
Among the earlier symptoms which one
can observe, and which should lead one at
once to consult a physician, are: Slight
cough, lasting a month or longer; loss of
weight; slight fever in the afternoon; bleed-
ing from the lungs.
Many persons who have these early
symptoms of tuberculosis lose valuable
time, and often their only chance of recov-
ery, by relying on the promises of patent-
medicine fakers and medical quacks.
Don't take patent medicines and don't go
to quack doctors who advertise that they
cure tuberculosis by some method known
only to themselves.
13052G 19 3
WHAT TO DO.
If you think you have consumption, go at
once to a private physician or to a tubercu-
losis clinic or dispensary.
Make sure that your lungs are carefully
examined. Remember that this can not be
done unless the chest has been entirely un-
covered. Therefore have no confidence in
a doctor who examines your lungs through
your clothing, or, worse still, prescribes for
your cough without even examining your
lungs.
If there is any suspicion of tuberculosis,
your sputum should be examined micro-
scopically. This is usually done free of
charge by the State Board of Health.
Your local health officer will help you to
get the examination made.
SOME FACTS.
Every three minutes some one in the
United States dies from consumption.
One hundred and fifty thousand persons
die from it in the United States each year.
One person of every ten who die in the
United States dies of consumption.
THINGS TO REMEMBER.
1. Fresh air is as necessary to health as
pure and nourishing food.
2. People should not sleep in overcrowded
rooms, nor with closed windows.
3. Homes and workshops must be clean
and thoroughly ventilated. Dirt and
impure air are the allies of tuberculosis.
4. Persons with colds or coughs of long
standing or persons who are losing in
weight or strength should consult a doc-
tor or go to a dispensaiy or clinic. It is
dangerous to wait.
5. Careless spitting spreads the disease.
Sick persons should burn their spit.
6. Though 110 one should ever sleep with
a consumptive, a careful consumptive is
not dangerous to those with whom he
lives and works.
7. The large majority of people probably
have had tuberculosis in their systems,
but they do not become sick with it be-
cause they take good care of their gen-
eral health and strength.
8. Always cover your mouth and nose with
a handkerchief when you cough or
sneeze and insist on others doing the
same.
LEARN TO LOVE FRESH AIR.
When you come in from outdoors and
find the air in your rooms stale and stuffy
and foul smelling, open the windows wide
and let in plenty of fresh air from outside.
Open the door, too, so that the fresh air
can freely enter.
Become a fresh-air crank even at the
risk of being disliked. Better a live fresh-
air crank than an almost lifeless hothouse
invalid.
Do all you can to avoid crowds in closed
or poorly ventilated rooms. Not only does
the bad air lower your resistance, but you
are in danger of catching disease from
others.
Don't ride in a crowded street car when
you are going only a short distance. Walk !
Walk a mile in the open air twice a day.
It will add ten years to your life; if you
don't believe it, try it and see.
Keep the windows of your bedroom wide
open, day and night, even in winter. You
can't overdose yourself with fresh air, and
disease germs can't endure it.
For further information on tuberculosis, see your local health officer,
or write to your State Board of Health, or to the United States Public
Health Service, Washington, D. C.
Other Publications on Tuberculosis
UCSOUTHERMREGIpNAUIBRARY FACILITY
TUBERCULOSIS: ITS PREDISPOSING
CAUSES. No. 3. Supplement to Public
Health Reports.
TUBERCULOSIS: ITS NATURE AND
PREVENTION. No. 36. Public Health
Bulletin.
CLIMATE AND TUBERCULOSIS. No.
387. Reprint from Public Health Reports.
For copies of the above
Address UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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