Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1912 — BURN BUILDING TO KILL GERM [ARTICLE]

BURN BUILDING TO KILL GERM

Only Way to Get Rid of Them, and Occasion Was Made a Good Object Leseson. A ramshackle building in WinstonSalem was recently burned at the request of the local Anti-Tuberculosis league, because it was said to be alive with tuberculosis germs and could not be properely fumlgataed. For days before the building was burned huge placards announcing the hour of destruction were hung about in prominent places. Among other things the placards said: "Within the past 15 months two men who sold fruit, etc., there have died of tuberculosis, but unconsciously left millions of tuberculosis germs by careless spitting. The building is so open that it cannot be effectively fumigated. The only practical means of dsin-. fecting is by Are.” At the appointed hour, while mullions of tuberculosis germs were being burned, 5,000 pamphlets telling hpw to prevent consumption, were distributed to the crowd looking on.