The Cause and Prevention of Consumption
In a circular recently issued by the State board of health, entitled, “The Cause and Prevention of Consumption,” it is shown that in Illinois the disease is responsible for more deaths than typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, all forms of bronchitis, influenza, measles, and smallpox combined. It is further found that those dying from consumption were usually in the prime of life and of ages at which men are most valuable to themselves, their families, and the State. Of the seven thousand persons who died from this disease in Illinois in 1903, half were between the ages of twenty and fifty, while the estimated loss each year to the State because of the disease is about thirty-six million dollars.