Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — HEALTH WEEK IN RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

HEALTH WEEK IN RENSSELAER.

The Tuberculosis Exhibit and the Pure Food Exhibit of the State Board of Health will be in Rensselaer during the week, commencing December sth, 1910. It comes under the auspices of the local medical society, This exhibit will be displayed in some place yet to be selected, and it consists of charts, photographs, engravings, mottoes, sketches, pathological specimens, etc., altogether illustrating the story of the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. This is one of the most important subjects before the people to-day. Tuberculosis causes an annual cost to the people of Indiana, of not less than ten million dollars. It carries off over 4,500 people annually, and it destroys homes, brings misery, sorrow and suffering without end. It is in the power of the people to put this disease out of existence. This is the lesson we wish to teach by our exhibit. The Panama Canal, the pure food question and the tariff altogether, have not the importance that lies in the suppression of tuberculosis. One hundred and fifty thousand people die annually in the United States from this disease. It is a factor in causing insanity, pauperism, crime and imbecility. The prevention of tuberculosis can be accomplished through right-liv-ing. This disease is an expression of wrong-living. It i. 4 a house disease because we know that all cases of tuberculosis are contracted in the house. Those who live out of ‘doors, do not have the disease, and if persons afflicted with the disease in its beginning stages, adopt the outdoor life and the regular life, they can get well. Continue in the old course, and they invariably die. We should live more in the open air. We should let air into our bedrooms at night, our houses should be ventilated, and the schoolhouses ventilated, our offices, courtrooms and churches ventilated. Consumption is air starvation. Those who shut themselves up in bedrooms without any ventilation, are candidates for this disease. We feel confident that you will give your warmest support to the work of protecting the public health, and request that you make public mention of the coming of this exhibit* and recommend that the people study it and take to their hearts, the lessqp of the exhibit and apply it practically to everyday life. Very truly yours, J. N. HURTY. Secretary.