Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — YOUR TUBERCULOSIS BILL [ARTICLE]

YOUR TUBERCULOSIS BILL

How Much Do You Lose If You Do Not

Buy Red Cross Bealsf Suppose you were a father of a family of three children earning $3 a day and you were taken sick with tuberculosis. What would it cost you to get well, and what would It have cost yon to have done your share to prevent this disease from striking you? Here are a few leading Items of expense: Six months’ treatment tn sanitarium $260 00 Care, family of four, at $8 per week for six months 19$ 00 Coss of wages for six months at $3 ') per day 432 00 Total *874 00, ~Now, what would have been your share in the prevention of tuberculosis? “An ounoe of prevention” In the proper care of the body..., SOO 00 A study of some literature on the prevention of tuberculosis, which can be secured free of charge ... 00 00 The stopping of all bodily excesses 00 00 A timely examination by a doctor . . 800 The purchase of 100 Red Cross Seals as your share In the general preventive campaign against tu- , berculosts 1 00 Total .W. *OO Haw much do you lose?