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new service has been inaugurated by the Warren-Rappahannock-Clarke Tuberculosis Association,” said Miss Mary. Miller Wood, Chairman of the Health Education and Public Information Committee. *
“Fighting tuberculosis is the first concern of your tuberculosis association,” Miss Wood said, “but because of the close tie between tuberculosis and other lung diseases, the fight, to be successful, must be waged against all respiratory disease.”
Chronic Bronchitis isn’t usually considered a “killer.” Perhaps that is why so many people neglect it until it is in an advanced stage. Often by the time a patient goes to his doctor his lungs have been injured seriously. Then he may be susceptible to heart attacks or to serious lung diseases.
Chronic bronchitis is almost always associated with heavy cigarette smoking. It is likely to begin in middle age and to get worse as the years go on unless the victim seeks helpZfrom a doctor early in the disease. Almost four times as many men get chronii bronchitis as women. Usually, they live in cities where air pollution is a problem. In Great Britain, chronic bronchitis causes at least one-quarter of all male illnesses, is respon- j sible for the loss of, 22 million
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