YOUR SUMMER ENCAMPMENT 



tional reasons. It is the best business in the world 

 for you to camp out and still better business for 

 you to see that your neighbor camps out. This 

 statement is entirely susceptible of proof. 



The cure for tuberculosis is outdoor air and pure 

 food. Rational and well-conducted camp life is the 

 only thing which can help a man thus afflicted. The 

 great civilized troubles are those of the lungs and of 

 the stomach. These are best set right out of doors. 



One state of the Union spent, year before last, 

 $64,000,000.00 on people who did not camp out 

 enough. Each death in that state cost for postpone- 

 ment as much as for prevention $3,828.00. That 

 was the cost of fighting tuberculosis in each lost 

 fight. It did not cover the industrial loss to the 

 community inflicted by the death of the patient. 

 And all that could have been done to save any one 

 of these patients would have been to send him into 

 the open air and into a good camp. 



In one year the United States spent 3,200,000 

 hospital days on people who did not camp out 

 enough. The Civil War killed 205,700 men in four 

 years. In four years tuberculosis kills 800,000. 

 No army, except the unthinking army of civilized 

 men and women, could face such a percentage of 

 loss as that. And the cure of it, the only possible 

 cure, is more life out of doors. 



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