BUST fOUR•CHHISTMAL SEALS NOW
The fifth annual Christinas Seal
Sale ever held in the Territory
of Alaska is now under way.
This sale is sponsored by the
Alaska Tuberculosis Association
in Juneau and by local committees
in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seward,
Valdez, Cordova, Haines, Skngway,
Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell,
Ketchikan and Palmer, The sple
has helped extend the tuberculo
sis control vork being done and
thus help protect all hemes from
tuberculosis,
Approximately 95$ of every dollar
received from the seal sale,
remains in the Territory to help
orevent the increase in deaths
caused by this dreaded disease.
There were over 200 deaths in
Alaska last year caused by- tuber
culosis, and it is estimated that
there were 4,000 ill with this
disease,
More than half of all tuberculo
sis deaths occur in th produc
tive period of life ( Id* to 15)
when a person is of the greatest,
economic valiic both to his .^anily
and to his CQmmunity.
The United States has a tremen
dous investment of more than
300,000,000. in hospitals and
sanatoria for the tuberculoua and
the maintenance, cost of more than
s37G,000,000. annually comes large
ly from the pOc.Y. s of over-burd
ened tax-payers. This will of
necessity continue until.the
disease is brought under control
or entirely eradicated,.
It is sheer economic pasta .not to
be'nd overy effort .ffnd • rcs'crir&e'
toward this ultimate objective,
DO YOU KNOW THAT-?
Christmas Seals finance nearly
2,000 affiliated local, state
and national tuberculosis associa
tions in tho United States.
There are approximately 1,200
special and other hospitals with
more than 95,000 beds for the
tuberculous in the United States.
The tuberculosis death rate amen-:
unskilled workers of the United
States is nearly seven times high •
than that amon^ professional rork.
The most important accessory in
modern tuberculosis diagnosis,
the X-ray, wars discovered by
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen in 1395.
The tuberculin test, another aid
in finding tuberculosis, was per
fected in 1907*
Tuberculosis is a communicable
disease that is transmitted from
the sick to the well. Therefore
no home is safe from tuberculosis
until all homos are cafo.
The first free tuberculosis hos
pital was founded in . Boston, 1857
and the first state tuberculosis
sanatorium at Rutland, Massachu
setts, 1398.
More than forty countrier, havo
hold or are nor holding Christmas
Seal 3aleo' in order to finance
tuberculosis pr.Qgi’niiir . In-the
United States the annual real sale
is carried on by the 2,000 state
and ?ocal tuborcvlo is associations
rand the National Tuberculosis
Association. Each sord carries
the double-barred cross, world
wide emolen of the fight against
tuberculosis .
Therefore-, when you buy Christmas
Seals, buy the kind that places
your money where it will join this
world-wide fiJit for health# Join
tho crusade against tuberculosis.
Any amount you may be able to
afford, no matter how small will
he In „
BUT* your quota how.
SEE
ROBERT H.ROMIQ
A ITCH OR AGE
AIA SKA
WHEN YOU RENEW YOUR INSURANCE
PROTECTION RAYS
The reason there are so few broad
minded personiin the world is,
because they haven’t brains 'enough
to spread to any great width.