+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CONSUMPTION IN EARLY STAGES CAN BE CURED | | | | Take your case in time to a good physician or to a dispensary and | | you may be cured--DO NOT WAIT. | | | | Consumption is "caught" mainly through the spit of consumptives. | | | | Friends of Consumption--Dampness, Dirt, Darkness, Drink. | | | | Enemies of Consumption--Sun, Air, Good Food, Cleanliness. | | | | If you have tuberculosis do not give it to others by spitting; | | even if you have not, set a good example by refraining from a | | habit always dirty and often dangerous. | | | | _The Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis_ | | _Of the Charity Organization Society_ | | | | (By Courtesy of Siegel Cooper Co.) | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Important as are sanatoriums in mountain and desert, day or night camps within and near cities, milk and egg clinics, home visiting, change of air and rest for those who are known to be tuberculous, their importance is infinitesimal compared with the protection that comes from clean, healthy environment and natural living for those not known to be tuberculous. This great fact has been recognized by the various bodies now engaged in popularizing the truth about tuberculosis by means of stationary and traveling exhibits, illustrated lectures, street-car transfers, advertisements, farmers' institutes, anti-spitting signs in public vehicles and public buildings, board of health instructions in many languages, magazine stories, and press reports of conferences. This brilliant campaign of education shows what can be done by national, state, and county superintendents of schools, if they will make the most of school hygiene and civics. [Illustration: AN EXAMPLE IN COOePERATION THAT ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS CRUSADERS SHOULD FOLLOW]