Consumption : its causes and means of prevention : a circular / issued by the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut. State Board of Health.
Date:
[1895?]
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Credit: Consumption : its causes and means of prevention : a circular / issued by the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    WW T7C£S l?1S Circular No. 73. The STATE BOARD OF HEALTH respectfully requests that Health Officers and Physicians will place one of these circulars in every household in which there may be a con- sumptive patient. More copies can be obtained by application to the Secretary, Dr. C. A. Lindsley, New Haven. CONSUMPTION ITS CAUSE AND MEANS OF PREVENTION. A Circular issued by the State Board of Health, for public information. '<? S\CA£> Consumption is the most destructive disease among' us. More than a thousand people die from it in this State, every year. Much of this suffering and sorrow can he prevented by proper care on the part of the sick and those who attend them. The disease is a preventable one. It is now known that its cause is a germ called the Tubercle Bacillus. This germ is found in immense numbers in the spittle of consumptive patients. When this spittle dries, the invisible germs which it contains in enormous numbers, rise and float in the air with the dust, and may be breathed into our lungs. Healthy persons may thus take the disease. This is the usual mode of infection. Therefore the key to the control of consumption lies in the immedi- ate and absolute destruction of the infected sputa of all consumptives. For every such person is a pro- ducer of consumption seed, which is a living germ of