HEALTH WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 7

HEALTH WEEK

THE COMMONEST DISEASE GERM

PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS

AN ADDRESS BY DR. SHORT,

Fresh air, moderate exercise, rest at the right time, and sensible food were the means whereby tho risk of tuberculosis were reduced to a minimum, said Dr. Short, speaking at the Town Hall last evening upon tho subject of tho "Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis."

The disease was caused by a germ, ho said, a germ which was met with in daily life by everyone. There was no escaping this germ; it was everywhere, but the disease did not overcome the community, because Nature, through generations of contact with it and struggle against it, had conferred upon the individual a certain degree of resistance. Among certain native races this resistance did not exist, or was very much • less marked, and t«*o consequence was that when the disease was introduced it struck a heavier and deadlier blow. The germ might be

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met in largo numbers or in small; if during one's youth a small dose was met, then no lasting harm would result, but a larga dose would tax all the powers of resistance Nature could toufer. It could be said that at '.wo time during life everyone was inf<-"tcd — at the age of 14, 89 or 90 per cent, of all young people were; infected —but there was a difference between infection and disease. The amount of resistance depended