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LET'S MAKE IT 100% If the man who works next to you came in one morning with his face covered with pocks, you would literally flee for your life. It would never enter your head to work side by side with a man who had smallpox- You know that smallpox is a contagious disease and, even though you had been vaccinated, you wouldn’t take a chance of being around anyone who had it. Nor, for that matter, would your health department permit it, for our laws provide for the isolation of anyone with smallpox. There are other diseases, however, which we catch from people and which are a serious threat to health and life. One of these is tuberculosis. Unfortunately, tuberculosis has no obvious signs in its early stage. Even though you had never seen a case of smallpox you would recognize it if you came face to face with it. Not so with tuberculosis. The man next to you at work, the friend with whom you associate in the evening, or even you yourself might have tuberculosis without knowing it for months. Yet he could give the disease to you—or you could give it to him. Last year approximately 55,000 persons died from tuberculosis. That’s one person ever 10 min utes. Each of these persons caught the disease from someone else. Today there are about half a million people in this country suffering from tuberculosis- Only slightly more than half of these are known to health authorities and are under going treatment. The rest—nearly a quarter of a million people- are unknown to the health authorities. The chances are they themselves do not know they are suffering from a disease which is slowly wrecking their health and which they may be passing on to family and friends. We want to find those unknown cases of tu berculosis, to find them for their own protection and for the protection of the rest of the com munity. We want to find them while the disease is still in that early stage when it is easiest to cure. How can we find tuberculosis in the early stage? We can find it through X-ray examina tions. The X-ray, which can "see” through flesh, makes possible the taking of pictures of the lung, thus revealing the presence of tuberculosis even in the early stage. To find any unknown cases of tuberculosis in Transylvania and to further the control of the disease, the Transylvania County Tuberculosis As sociation and the North Carolina Health Depart ment announce that the X-ray Unit will be in the county from October 3 through the seventh. The Unit will be in Rosman on October 3, at Pisgah Forest on the fourth and in Brevard on the fifth, sixth and seventh between the hours of 10:00 A. M. and 5.30 P. M- Let’s all of us join this fight against TB by having a chest X-ray. The X-ray machine will be brought to you. It requires but a minute to have your picture taken and it is a painless process. Nor will it cost you anything. Expenses are being borne by the tuberculosis association. There is no law which says that you must have an X-ray. No one can force you to participate in this health project. Your own good sense will, however, I am sure, make you want to find out for certain whether your lungs are healthy. It will be good to know you haven’t tuberculosis- If, un fortunately, your X-ray shows suspicious signs of tuberculosis, you should want to know this, too, so that you can take the necessary steps to arrest the disease before you have lost your health com pletely and before you have spread the disease to others. Let’s all have chest X-rays. Let’s make it 100%. ANSWERS TO QUIZ 1. Tyler 2. Harrison 3. Adams 4. Arthur 5. McKinley 6. Wilson 7. Van Buren 8. Taft 9. Cleveland 10. Lincoln 11. Pierce 12. Taylor 13. Filmore 14. Jefferson 15. Roosevelt 16. Hoover 17. Hayes 18. Grant 19. Jackson 20. Garfield 21. Washington 22. Polk 23. Harding 24. Coolidge 25. Truman 26. Roosevelt 27. Madison 28. Monroe 29. Johnson 30. Buchanan 31. Harrison 32. Adams Britisher, Leonard Crawley, really went for the Walker Cup in his first match in 32. He overshot the 18th green and hit the famous tro phy on the fly. P. S. He won his match! 13
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