Gar aS 3 3 4 'Saturday, January 16th, 1926 A QUESTION BOX ON TUBERCULOSIS It Can Be Cured, Says the Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health . Service. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG FACES TRIAL ' ! of the exposure of the young child to the disease. 8---Where are the germs of tuber- 'culosis found? | 'The germs of tuberculosis are | found chiefly in the sputum of per-; {sons suffering from the disease, | { sometimes in the milk ,of dlseased | 4 | COWS, The germs are-always present By Dr. Hugh 8. Cumming. | of the body. Consumption 1s an ad- | in any lesion of a tubmrculons na: ure. : R | vance > 1 f What re the chief Symptoms ged form of tuberculosis. of Ihe} 8--How do the germs of tubercu~ of tuberculosis. " PROBS: --Southerly winds, fair and mild. Sinday continued mild. ---- Fy Tuberculosis may show itself in many different ways. There may be | « congh, fever, rapid pulse, or chills, | or there may be logs of strength, loss of weight or loss of appetite. The patient may be subject to frequent attacks of indigestion. There may be night sweats or spitting of blood "8 the patient may notice that he is : ily fatigued or is not refreshed by night's sleep. It should be remem- bered that tuberculosis may be pres- ent and give rise to no noticeable symptoms. 2----At what age most common? Tuberculosis is most common in young adults, It is the boy or girl Soot out of school, the young busi- ness man, or the young mother who is most commonly stricken. 3--Can tuberculosis be cured? Yes, as a rule, tuberculosis can be ured but not in a day, a week, or a onth. When the disease is dis vered in its early stages and pro- Perly treated for a sufficient length of time the patient stands a good chance to recover. ' 4--What is the difference between tuberculosis and consumption? Tuberculosis may attack any part is tuberculosis 5--~Why does a disease that can be) cured kill so many people? { Tuberculosis, a curable disease, | kills so many people because many | who have the disease do not know | that they have it until it is too late ' Many people who have been told) they have the disease do not believe | it. Many people who know that they | have the disease refuse to carry out | the proper treatment for a sufficient | length of time. Many who have the | disease have dependent families and | feel that it ig. impossible for them to stop work. thers who have the dis- ease are unable to pay for treatment and still oters who take treatment believe that they are well and return to work while the disease is still! active, | 6--Should a patient with tubercu- | losis be told he has the disease? { Yes. Not to tell a patient that he | has the disease is wrong. The only | hope of cure depends upon the in- | telligent co-operation of the patient. | Doctors should tell a patient exactly | What his condiffon is and what he| must do to get well, 7--Is tuberculosis hereditary? | No. Practically never. Consump- tion runs in certain families because troublesome cold or PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST ' Phone 89, AL OLEAN« , ERS AND DYERS For a short time we are placing on sale our stock of Leather Goods and {French Ivory at 20% Discount This is a splendid op- portunity to supplement your set of Ivory with an odd piece or two, or to obtain a fine piece of Eng- lish Leather at a very rea- sonable cost. SMITH BI2o8 DETACHED BRICK DWELLING -- 7 rooms, B. and T., electric and gas, H. W. floors, hot air; garden; central. $2,000--Prame, " $8,000-=Frame, 7 rooms, 3 p. bath, : ~-- Brick, semi-dotached, § rooms, 8 p. bath, electric avd ff ET als. KINDS OF INSURANCE. » - Napanee, Belleville. Brighton, : and Toronto Truok Leaves Kingston Every Day i losis get into the body? { sputum of a tuberculous patient or The germs of tuberculosis énter the human body usually from the from milk from tuberculous cows which has. not been pasteurized. The germs may be deposited upon dust, especially the dust of a foul room, and drawn into the lungs by breath- ing. The germs are frequently pre- sent in the fine spray coughed out by tuberculous patients and this spray is often coughed directly into the faces of other people, ; Germs may be deposited upon the rim of a cup or glass or upon a fork or spoon or upon any article such as a pencil or coin, that is placed in the mouth 'of a tuberculous patient and in this way may be conveyed to the mouths of others. Tuberculous pa- tients often have the germs upon their hands. They pass easily to the hands of others and thence to the mouth, Tuberculous cooks deposit the germs upon the food that they handle. Tuberculosis bufchers and bakers do the same. Children crawling upén a dirty floor get the germs upon their hands or they may get the germs from marbles, balls, and other playthings that have been in contact with spu- tum upon the street deposited there by a tuberculous person. The germs are also obtained from the milk of tuberculous cows. 10--How long after the germs geét into the body before one develops tuberculosis? Not all persons who get the germs into their bodies develop active symptoms of the disease. It is prob- able that most of the germs entering the body are destroyed before they do any harm, On the other hand, the germs that lodge in the body live and to a limited degree multiply and even in such cases never give rise to active tuberculosis of the lungs, The enlarged glands so often seen in children are frequently due to tuberculosis, yet the child may never develop an active form of the dis- ease. Such persons are said to be infected = with latent tuberculosis. When the disease becomes active it is called manifest tuberculosis. There is good reason to believe that most persons become infected during childhood. If, later in life, 'the dis- ease becomes active, it is believed in most cases to be due to such child- hood infection. 11---1Is there any way to tell if a person has become infected with tuberculosis? Yes, there is a very simple test not unlike vaccination by means of which it can be determined whether or not a person has become infected. From this test it is known that most grown people are infected with the germs of 'the disease. It is not ap- plicable in some cases and condi- tions. TO SETTLE FRENCH DEBT Henry Berenger, who is about to take up his duties in Washington as French Ambassador. He will make an attempt to settle the French war debts. William Bevans, seventy-six, is be- ing held in the Logansport (Ind.) jail awaiting trial on a charge of first degree murder. An inmate of the White county infirmary, he stabbed to death Nelson Anderson, seventy- four, in a quarrel oyer Stella Shirley, another inmate of the institrtion. He objected to Anderson's serenad- ing Miss Shirley, who is thirty-seven, with an accordion, ---- {who Pays for Advertising 7 Editor and Publisher, New York Complete candor with the public is a development of the day's busi- | ness enlightenment. In New York the Gimbel Brothers' great store re- cently advertised iy page spaces that October sales were 313,300,000, a gain over last year's October of $1,- 900,000. Another conspicuous in- stance of buginess candor was exhi- bited at San Francisco last week by Granat Brothers, manufacturing jewellers, who took a five-column newspaper space to explain to the public that advertising is not a tax upon the consumer. 2 This piece of copy, signed by Jay Haight, the advertising manager of the store, is a classic. In heavy dis- play is asked: "Who Fays the Ad- vertising Bills?'. A Granat advertise- ment in a Sunday newspaper, it was shown, cost $800, and Mr. Haight declared: That advertisement brought $16,000 in sales, costing 5 per cent. It is so year in and year cut. Does it raise the price of the diamond ring you select? Does it add a further tax upon your pocket- book? Wa believe not. The adver- tising inereases sales and as a result the ratio of other e'j'ense is lower- ed. Whether we sell $1,000 a year of $100,000 a year, the rent is the same. £07 AN BT past This remarkable store publicity then goes on to show that the aver- age overhead. expense of 394 retail Jewellers last year, as certified by the Harvard Bureau, was 38.3 per cent. of their sales, but Granat Bro- thers expense was 25.2 pér cent. Many of these jewellers did not ad- vertise. ' Their combined sales reach- ed $34,978,000 and their met profit was only 1.2 per cent. of sales. Granat Brothers sold their goods at about B 1-2 per cent. lower gross profit than the average, but made § 1-2 per cent. net on sales. "Advertising," wrote Mr. Haight, "increased sales to a point where we could afford to sell diamonds and jewellery at lower prices to you and still make a larger net profit for ourselves. That is having your cake -} and eating it, too. So our customers did not pay for the advertising in'in- creased prices. Who did then pay for the advertising? We'll tell you the answer. Our competitors in the jewellery business, chiefly those who do not advertise, paid for our ad- vertising. They paid for it in trade that slipped away from them to us. They paid for it in the new custom- ers we got which they might have had. They paid for it in high ex- pense, low volume, high gross pro- fit and lgw net. They paid for it in small wiover." . oe w o SATURDAY NIGHT | BARGAIN SPECIALS AT STEACY'S 7.00 to 9.30 p.m. Ladies' Wool Spencers 95¢ 5 doz. 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