"You get pneumonia and t. b. Fund die," splutters any husband or father when he sees his women folk. start out into the icy blasts warmly clad in silk'stockings, thin slippers and flat crepe frock covering nothing but georgette teddies. He will probably-sniffle his disapproval as the weaker sex sallies forth unheeding, coat, flapping in the wind.
Perhaps it is because women are vainer, At all events, just because their appearance means so. much: to them they are quick to heed the danger signals that may threaten. Most men have to be dragged to a doctor by their women folks. But women will much more readily go for a health checkup or when something untoward develops.
"When I was young girls were sensible," he calls a warning after them, thinking regretfully of the dear, dead days when -woollens, wrappers, leggings and salts were regular parts of the equipment of an old-fashioned lady.
As a matter of fact, the girl of father's youthful dreams was considerably less healthy than her daughter, and the careless young thing of to-day is apt to be healthier than ber careful, critical brother.
According to the last compiled statistics of the New York Tubereulosis and Health Association, for the year. 1928, more men than! women of acute bronchitis, more men than women died of bronchial pneumonia and 22 per cent.
than women died of tuber-
And not only that, but in} spite of the fact that the population includes more women than men, in spite of the fact that chilepith takes its toll from the ranks of women, there are annually a greater number of male deaths than of female.
'There is hardly such a thing as: too much sensible caution in matters of health, according to' the medical societies, Here indeed, the proverbial stitch' in time is truly applicable. Had that very stitely been taken by all the men vietima of tuberculosis and pneumonia that were most probably taken by the women those men, too, might be alive to-day. To catch disease in its incipieney, before it has had ime to develop to the point where it is too late for the doctor to save, the patient, is the lesson that bottt men and women should take well to heart Go to your doctor at any indices tion that all is not normal and in good working order, but, better Still, go to him while it is, medical societies are urging. Go regularly, sick or well, for a physical checkups In this movement women can be medicine's ablest conspirators, they say. They may see that their men folk do take the couple of hours off a year in which to be examined that may mean to them the dif+ ference between sickness and health, The reason for this, according to the health campaign being conducted by the five county medical societies of New York, is that women understand more of taking care of hemselver than men.
Left to their own resources, men usually find themselves too busy to attend to their own good. But with a woman's tactful insistence they will do it in spite of their own apathy. ats
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