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habits and poisons are dangerous to good health. Various examples can 

 be pointed out — for instance, late hours, alcohol aud tobacco, which are 

 prime factors in precipitating severe cases in many of our young men 

 patients. When they are set up as examples to the observing public it 

 often astonishes them as something they had not before thought of. I 

 must also emphasize that when the society is urging all these teachings it 

 forces many negligent physicians to realize tlie necessity of more strict 

 orders to their patients. 



i'liird. Iiy teaching economy in caring for such victims, thei'eliy reserv- 

 ing forces to be utilized in aggression rather than defense. With resultant 

 etfect of the facts in the first and second, tiiere is the beginning of economy, 

 which effects are tremendous in the end. for every case of prevention is the 

 means of saving thousands of dollars, which if saved for other pursuits of 

 the proper kind must Itroaden the field of attainment by a people physically 

 more abl" to dn work than those weakened l)y personal or family sickness. 



Fourth, that life may be sustained over the disease which has long 

 been tliougbt to Ite fatal. Tiiere are iiow hundreds of strong working peo- 

 ple in the State of Indiana who. if tlicy had not had the intelligent advice 

 and trc.itnicnt of the society workei's. would have been sleeping under sod 

 waiting for other victims of theii- own infection who were serving their 

 days of invalidism. 



Tlie growth ot tlic nioveUK^it by local organizations lias ln-ought about 

 the idea that a united effort is necessary to accomplish the foregoing. As 

 a result, in our state we now have statutes giving iiower to county com- 

 missioners to establish county hospitals for tiibcrculons (indigent) patients, 

 or to contract with county organizatioiis for the care of such patients. This 

 enables chai'itable organizations to conduct more successfully the institu- 

 tions they are establishing. In fact, if this law bad not conic into effect, 

 public charity could not support the crying demands. Such a failure would 

 gradually burden tlu' cheerful donor, and baffle the iihilanthropic workers. 

 When such cooperation exists, civil and charitable forces are also sup- 

 ported by individuals abl(> to pay small but reasonable sums for attention. 

 Instead of great amounts necessary in seeking distant health resorts, I will 

 suggest that cooperation in this st.ite. will enable each group of people to 

 learn the nu»st conservative methods to b(> employed in this branch of 

 work. A monthly state jor.rn.-il should be pnlilislied. in which the workers 

 of this state can embody system and cooperation of efforts. 



