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L'4 The Health Bulletin February, 1927
(lean's name will stand as one of the
fireat pidiieer tishters of the disease in
our country and in the world. Dr.
Tnideau never became interested in the
study and care of the disease until he
developed it himself. All of his wonderful
work was done after he was a
"T. b."
Robert Louis Stevenson, the author,
devcloiied tuberculosis when ho was
twentv-one vears old. All of his books
at fifty. He thought he would die, but
recovered and lived for thirtj'-eight
years, dying at the age of eighty-eight.
Go On
You have tuberculosis. Life is over
No ! It is only beginning. Sweep the
gray shades aside, catch the sun's rays,
rest, take the by-roads when you want
to travel the main highways, remember
those "Who, by a life heroic,'' have
conquered fate. Go on ! The Sanatorium
Sun.
FARM DECORATION
-V farmer took over a nin-down Piirham
County farm about one yeiir ago, and decided
that the best decorating he could do
for the old place would l)e white leghorn
chickens. He has five hundred of them
literally all over the place. He says that
together with a forty cow dairy and a field
of strawberries they arc working him to
death. But the combination is decorating
the cheeks of his four children with the
red, rosy bloom of good health.
and his
fame as an author came after
he became a "T. b." The only novelist
who has ever made a million dollars
from his books, Harold Bell Wright, is
a "T. b." He wrote "When a Man's a
Man" in 1916. At that time he thought
it was his last book. He has written
many since then. John Wesley, the
founder of the Methodist Church, suffered
an acute attack of tuberculosis
PREVEXTIVE MEDICINE
In the last fifteen years one insurance
com]iany has spent $18,709,000 on
health work for its industrial policyholders.
During this period the deathrate
has declined more than 30 per
cent. This reduction in mortality has
meant an actual saving of $35,000,000,
which, with the former death-rate,
would have been paid out in death
settlements. An $18,000,000 investment
and a $35,000,000 saving! This holds
true for other business enterprises.
There is something in this life-saving
business which reacts directly to the
benefit of the manufacturer, the storekeeper,
the public-service corporation,
the exporter, the farmer and the realtor.
Disabling sickness resulting in inability
to work has been found by actual surveys
to amount to about seven days
each year to industrial policyholders.
Furthermore, it was discovered that
about 2 per cent of the population, on
the average, is sick at all times. The
cost of this item alone in reduced production
is estimated at about $1,000,-
000.000 annually in the United States.
Sation's Business Magazine.
A PART TIME FAMILY COW
In these days of full time this, that
and the other thing, a teacher in the
Raleigh schools interested us mightily
the other day with a description of a
part time family cow.
It happened this way. The teacher
is a young woman who believes in her
job 24 hours a day and seven days in
a week. She has been teaching in one
of the Raleigh schools for several years.