Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — RED CROSS BEALS DECREASE TUBERCULOSIS RATE. [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS BEALS DECREASE TUBERCULOSIS RATE.

“Would to God your work had started fifty years ago,” was the comment of an Arizona consumptive in writing the other day to Dr. Hoyt E. Dearholt, executive secretary of the Wisconsin Anti-tuberculosis association. Part of the letter follows: “Fine work, old chap! That decrease In the death rate seems a remarkable gain to me. I had not expected results as soon as that I have always laughed at the authorities who claimed that in ten years a case of tuberculosis would be as rare as one of smallpox is today. The bad work of centuries cannot be undone in ten years, and so I marvel at your wonderful progress. I trust the errors in statistics, if any, are all in your favor. You inspire me. Would to God your work had started fifty years ago. Probably then {he disease would have missed me.” The letter contained a check for Bed Cross Seals, from {be sale of which the entire support pf the Wisconsin work is derived. Every seal yoq buy is a bullet In the fight *galpst tuberculosis.