How to avoid consumption (tuberculosis).

  • Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Date:
[1909]
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    HOW THE GERMS OF CONSUMPTION AReIcABRIED FROM THE SICK TO THEJV^t!- CW(StHmveSPrmM«raiORlTHE spit Df/lftANOCARELESS I^LS™,^,? FLIES fEtWNGONIT.CJRBY I«£ SWEEPIKS.DUSTINS OR ORAUGnTS unmFsnp raui«J, 6ERMS OF THE DISEASE TO fOOO. IcAUSE THE GERMS TO FUDAT IN TT1E AIR. CONSUMPTIONS ALLIES-AVOID THEM/^»0 YW ARE SAFEGUARDING AGAINST THE DISEASE INTEMPERANCE OTHER EXCESSES THECLBSEDWINDOiy OVERWORK ,^ MOUTH BREATHING 5H0KE AND OUST oftekouetoadenoks IN CASE OF consumption! LOOK TO THESE FOR CURE THE DOCTOR. SUNLIGHT. OUT-DOO;? AIR. GOOD FOOD. REST. A CAREFUL CONSUMPTIVE.- 4MCCROUS TO LIVE WITH. ^Jy \'^s££P:S^^7g~ ^-l5-°^'1tv /.WHS USES THE SAHf COUGHS, SPITS AND I ^°t'~~^ „• ^ -ii^Ii-^ »«£HES HEH HANDS D.SHES AND BOIES THEM OR PUTS IT INTO 01 TORE AMO AFTEII EATIKG- IN WAIEBOEFORE WASHING „„ „. , A DISINFECTANT,- WrlH OTHER DISHES.- A«D SLEEPS ALONE Banner used in the New York State Defiartment of Health Traveling Exhibit and shown at the Internation*! Congress ^^ Tuberculosis Designed (Aw«r (Ae direction of llethui D. Pease, U. D., by C. W. Felherojf i THINGS TO REMEMBER Fresh air is as necessary to healtli as pure and nourisliing food. People should not sleep m over- crowded rooms, nor with closed windows. Homes and work-shops must be clean and thoroughly ventilated. Dirt and impure air are the allies of consumption. Persons with colds or coughs of long standing or persons who are losing in weight or strength should consult a doctor, or go to a dis- pensary or chnic. It is dangerous to wait. The habit of careless spitting promotes the disease. The consumptive person spits out minions of germs in a single day and when the spit dries these germs are blown about and find their way into other people's lungs. Sick persons should burn their spit. Though no one should ever sleep with a consumptive, a careful con- sumptive is not dangerous to those with whom he lives and works. The large majority of people probably have tuberculosis in their systems, but they do not become sick with it because they take good care of their general health and strength.