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The National Association for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis has decided upon October 27 as National Tuberculosis
Day. Such inroads upon life are made by tuberculosis that in the
United States two hundred thousand deaths annually are caused by
7t—one every three minutes. Experts state that one-half of all who
die between the ages of eighteen and forty-five are victims of tuber-
culosis, but no repetition of figures, no emphasis of speech, no
words of warning can add to the horror and terror and responsibility
which, in the public mind, attach to the gruesome devastations of
this disease. Peoples, public and private, who do not perform
every act within their power to check this scourge are almost guilty
of negative murder.
It is not enough to Segregate victims, to be cleanly, to prevent
tnjection by sanitary methods in the destruction of sputum and
otherwise. Tuberculosis will not be arrested until the race is built
Stronger, until the reserve force that resists attacks of disease is
greater and more potent. The cause of tuberculosis as well as its
prevention must be studied. The conditions that make for the
weakening of the race must be remedied. As long as there are
lowly and congested quarters in cities; as long as people are badly
fed and overworked; as long as the working classes are improperly
housed both during their work and resting hours; as long as avarice
drives the individual or employers' selfishness overdrives the em-
ployee; as long as there is excessive alcoholism and use of other
poisons; the human race will continue to weaken. The vital
energies of mankind must not be dissipated. When these things
are checked by moral and legal rules of discipline, the greatest blow
will be given to tuberculosis and kindred enemies of life.
The situation calls for such grave consideration that I deem it
my public duty to officially emphasize the value of united effort in
this direction.
Therefore, I, Chase S. Osborn, Governor of the Commonwealth
of Michigan, in the name of and for the people of Michigan, do
fissue this Proclamation and urge the observance of October 27,
1912, as Tuberculosis Day.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of
the State of Michigan, this twelfth day
of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred and twelve,
and of the Commonwealth the seventy-
sixth.
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Governor.
By the Governor:
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Secretary of State.

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