You can avoid tuberculosis by:
--Not moving into a house or working where a person who has had tuberculosis has lived until it has been disinfected by the board of health or your doctor. Fumigation alone will not kill germs. The free use of disinfectant, followed by sunlight and fresh air, and then whitewash, calcimine or fresh papering will remove danger of infection from germ-laden rooms.
--Not spitting yourself or allowing anyone about you, sick or well, to spit where it cannot be burned up or thrown into the sewer.
--Admitting sunlight and air to every room in your house or work place, and keeping these rooms as clean as possible.
--Taking care of your body and those of your family. Eating good, properly cooked food, taking a warm bath once a week, avoiding late hours and dissipation of all kinds, spending as much time as possible out of doors.
--Wearing loose, light clothing that does not cramp your lungs. Not stooping your shoulders or allowing your children to do so.
--Not letting your children come in contact with people who cough, because children take tuberculosis easier than grownups. You need not be afraid of a careful, clean consumptive, but avoid the careless one and keep your children away from them.
From the front page of The News-Record, Marshall, N.C.—“The Only Newspaper Published in Madison County.” June 26, 1925
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