Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Dec 1928, p. 51

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December 1, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE di3ease eve.r recorded in Illinois. At Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Zech of 918 Forthe same ttme tuberculosis ·constitutes est avenue entertained Dr. and Mrs. ~ health problem that is far from be- R. C. McGrath of Chilton, Wis. and m~ solved!. More than 5000 persons their children, MarjoriP- . and Franklin, ·CB.AIU ··· TABLU f e r _ , wtll have d1ed from it duri th · T .. Uabertli,- .... · For the first ttme m htstory tubercu- J That indicates th ng fts year. over hanksgiving. Mr. Zech's moth0 losis is a greater menace to rural than . than 40 000 acti ~ p~e~enced more er, Mrs. John Zech of Milwaukee, came to city people in Iliinois. Tuberculosis 3tilJ livi~g in th vet Yt m ~cte '£ p~rsons for Thanksgiving and is staying over infection ha3 declined 47 per cent program agains~ th a c.h't a~t est Y the for a vi5it. among young children since 1918. be vigorously ren e ~ .t e pdague must +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++1-+++++++++++t.,,. Three counties in central Illinois and teet the healthy aewnde tm orther to dp.r~- + · · th t f . th t h s op e pro tgt- : sevden a 'lrlmge h e ~XI r~me sout ern ous losses st ill caused by tuberculosis ++ 0 en are stt so . eavt. y mfected that <?ur succes 3 to date may be regarded more than one mhabttant per thous- stmply as encouraging. The magnitude : OF GLENCOE. ILLINOIS : and succumbs and mor~ than on.e per and character of the problem of tuber- + · hundred comes down wtth the dtsease culosis for future solution is a real : announces a : annually. challenge. + · These · announcements, characterized + 15 an encouraging challenge, were made Wilmette Yoi.tth Wins His : : this week by Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings. L : on : state health director, who has just cometter at Beloit College + pleted an exhaustive study of the Football letters were awarded to + tuberculosis situation, undertaken as fift~en men of Beloit college who were : : a means for formulating intelligently active on the fre3hman squad this year. + by + the future program and policic.; of the \he squad was coached by Roy Bohler, : S B · state government in its efforts to errad- dtrector of athletics of the college, and + OHN ANDALL UNN, · · · : icate the disease. although the one g,1111 e they played : of Boston, Massachusetts : Shift Work to Country ended in defeat for Beloit. the men re- + + "Concentrating efforts · in two ex- ceived good training for ,·arsitv ball + Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, + cessively infected down-state areas and next year. · : The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts : shifting the emphasis of activities from Those receiving letters vverc: George : ; city to rural territory are two cardinal Kcls~y and George Bedell, Beloit; Sam + In the Church Edifice, Greenleaf Avenue and Beach Road + principle3 that must be significantly Amrme and Ralph Hopkins, Rockton; : : con~idered in the future campaign Hotzell Bode, Robert Bushnell and + + agamst tuberculosis in Illinois" Dr. Howard Johnson, Oak Park; Wilbur : Saturday Evening, Dec. 8, 19 2 8 : Rawlings declared. "Logan. Mor!!an ·Cooper, J3yron, Ill.: Gilbert Dopp, + +. ,, '"". at 8 o'Cl ock · and Sangamon c::>unties in the central 0 c~nomowoc, vv ts.; 1ohn Jessup, + region and Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Chtcago; Howard Jones and William : : Massac, Pope, Pulaskt and Union in Mes .~enhrink. Hinsdale; vVilliam· Miller, + THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND + the extreme south constitute areas Rockford; Dudley Porter, China; and : : where the death rate ha.; pcrsi. tentlv _T_o_n_J_S_r_ ll_er~}~ · ,_\ _V_i_ln_le_t_te_.~~~~~~~ ~+~+~~~+~+~+~+~+~+~+ ~ +~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~·~~' been and continue · to he c n. idrrabl)· more than 100 per 100.000 population while in the remainder of tire state the rate has dropped to about 74. "Beginning in 1919 the death ratr from tuberculosis among inhabitants of cities of 10,000 or more people has been less than among people in the rest of the state. The death rate is about 72 in the cities and 81 in the rural dis tricts, a decided different. This persistent and noticeable change indicates clearly that urbanites have learned to deal with tuberculosis more successiul ly than the rural inhabitants. Mortality in the rural districts has not increased. It simply has not declined so Model 71 rapidly as that in the cities. Mortalit.f Rate Declines ':Mortality from tuberculosis among children less than 5 vtars old ha.~ declined 47 per cent c;ince 1918 a considerably larger decrease than' that of any other age group. This suggests that the pasteurization of milk supplie~ which has incr ea:;ed .enormously dunng that period is an important factor in tuberculosis controL "Remarkable improvement has markASTONISHING" !d the progress of the campaign against MATCHLESS tuberculosis and 1928 promises to yield ABILITY CLARITY the lowest mortality rate from that Tuberculosis NOW M ore Prevalent in Rural Localities . . . 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