Don’t Neglect a Cold

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 1, 1902

Don’t Neglect a Cold

MORTUARY statistics in the United States place pneumonia next to consumption in the number of victims which it claims. In the year 1890 pneumonia claimed 76,496 victims, while the number who went down with consumption was 102,199; but the deaths from diphtheria, scarlet fever, small-pox, and cancer added together did not equal the number who died of pneumonia. The entering wedge of pneumonia is the common, all-prevalent, lightly-regarded “cold.” A little exposure, especially when the system is “run down,” results in a cold; and it is the neglected colds that put the extra notches on the gun-barrel of pneumonia. The moral is: Don’t neglect a cold. It is wise to be vigilant toward the progress of an enemy which claims more than 75,000 victims each year from among the population of one country.