Tuberculosis

South Dakota: South Dakota State Board of Health, 1920. Very good to near-fine. Light toning/sunning.. An informational booklet for the public on Tuberculosis, offering answers to frequently asked questions and tips for preventing the spread of disease. Published by the South Dakota State Board of Health. Includes information reprinted from "Pamphlet 106 published by the National Tuberculosis Association" in New York. Some of the questions answered include: What is Tuberculosis? How does the disease take hold? How do you prevent your family from catching the disease? It is interesting to see how the medical advice differs, or does not differ, from advice given today. Published at a time when cities were rapidly growing, leading to the easy spread of disease among the working class: "Outside of the house, there is much danger in offices, workshops, factories and mills. Experience shows that both clerks and workmen too often spit promiscuously on the floors of their workplaces and since many of them, often without knowing it, have the disease, they infect their fellow workmen, and every year thousands of American laborers are made sick in this way. If only our labor unions knew he great danger" (p. 4). Single vol. (8.75" by 4"), pp. 19, [1], in original printed light green blue wrps with State seal of South Dakota on front.