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-— ) bring the sick— One million sufferers from Tuberculosis — ARGOSY ALLSTORY— ADVERTISING SECTION. , the many tuberculous sick—from the cities to the healing wiidernes dream of the beloved physician. He realized his dream ag built a Adie ~ dack Cottage Sanitarium, the first sanitarium for the open-air treatment of Tw berculosis in America—now a wonderful city of houses built inside-out. _ _ 1s the estimated number in the United States right now. The diseas lungs, skin, brain and bone. Beggar and millionaire are exposed. It ade ages——from babyhood to old age. Acute danger periods are infancy and early adult life, The greatest death toll is exacted between 35 and 45—the most pro- ductive years of life—just when the family is most dependent on breadwinner or homemaker. No medicine will cure Tuberculosis — but it can be cured by fresh air—day and night, winter and summer, rain or shine. By rest, good nourishment, freedom from worry, and supervision by trained physicians. Most of all, by sunshine in the home and sunshine in the heart. Better than cure is prevention through regular examination by physicians, sanitary living and working conditions, and fresh air and sunshine. always A great crusade is being waged. Since 1904 the Tuberculosis death rate for the United States has been cut in half. But the fight is not the fight of any one country. It is the fight of all Humanity. And when all Humanity fights then shall the Great White Plague that has whitened the world with tombstones for more than two thousand years be driven from the Earth. Before health work was started, there was a death from tuberculosis every eight minutes of every working day of eight hours among Metropolitan policy holders. The disease still causes one- twelfth of allthe deaths in this country. | If this proportion is allowed to con- | tinue, it means that among the people now living in the United States over | 9,500,000 are doomed to die from this preventable disease. Working with National, State and local organizations -the Metropolitan Life Insurance pany has reduced the Tuberculosis rate, for its policy holders, 49% ars. As one-seventh of the f the United States and red in the Metropolitan, » of the death rate vitally health work in Framingham, Mass. manufacturing town. to cure Tuberculosis. A free copy “A War On Consumption” will mailed to all who ask for it. Published by ment if te deairajte that you mention ( affects the entire country. Eight years ago the Company built a sanitarium at Mount McGregor to care for sick members of its staff. In the first seven years there were 896 cases of Tuber- culosis discharged. The reports show that 80% of these employees are back at work. For five years the Metropol- itan has Beeperees a demonstration of ,a The Tubercu- losis death rate in that time has been cut in two. The Metropolitan issues a booklet telling how to prevent, how be HALEY FISKE, President of TAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY—NEW YORK hie magazine im —!