DISEASES CAUSED BY BACTERIA 303 



For the Good of Your Community. Check up your yard and 

 your neighbors' yards for the following things: 



1. Manure pile. 



2. Garbage. 



3. Tin cans. 



4. Ashes. 



5. Weeds. 



6. Full privy vaults. 



7. Tumble-down shed. 



8. Old lumber and rubbish. 



9. Dirty chicken- or barn-yard. 



10. Neglected well. 



11. Uncovered rain barrel or bucket. 



12. Tumble-down fence. 



Are all conditions satisfactory? Do you find a backyard flower 

 garden or a vegetable garden? 



Remarks. 



Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis kills more people than any other 

 disease. Every three minutes, on an average, someone in the 

 United States dies from consumption, and every seventh person who 

 dies, dies from this disease. 



Source and Origin. The bacillus of tuberculosis may grow in 

 any part of the body, and cause tuberculosis of the part affected. 

 It is slow-growing, but it has great power of resistance against 

 efforts of the body to kill it. The bacillus does not grow outside 

 of the bodies of men and animals, and is not found away from their 

 habitations. 



Tuberculosis of the lungs, which is the most common form, is 

 often called consumption. It is caused by the growth and multi- 

 plication in the lungs of the very small tubercle bacillus. If not 

 checked, these germs spread through one or both lungs and destroy 

 their usefulness, and the patient dies from the disease. 



Tuberculosis germs are present everywhere. Everyone breathes 

 in some of these germs at one time or another. If the resistant 

 power of the body against these germs has been weakened from 

 any of the following causes: 



