"A TUBERCULOSIS DAY."
Why not a Tuberculosis Day In Australia? asks a Sydney paper. "We have," it says, "Wattle Day, Mothers' Day, Empire Day, Foundation Day, Anniversary Hay, vrhkli represent sentiment), loyalty, and patriotism!. What more practical .than TuIbereuTosis Day, to give a great moral impetus to the proposals now under serious consideration for .stamping out iJhe White Plague? Americans have already .initiated feudh a day. Sunday. •Alpril 21st, 'was «et apart as Tuberculosis Day 'in the United 'States, and liundreds of (organisations ia'll over *he country united in the right against tuberculosis -urging (the churches .to give the day general and appropriate observance. The purpose of Tuberculosis Day iiu the churches is to make the work better understood, and to win for it a, imore general support. Tihe idea <ig worthy .of imitation in this great young country, uflieire already tuberculosis has !become a deadly .menace."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 4
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147"A TUBERCULOSIS DAY." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 4
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