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maintenance of good health, so that they may encounter 

 infection successfully, remembering always that overwork and 

 underfeeding are the surest preparation for the disease. 



It is not impossible that the compulsory notification of 

 tuberculosis may have an effect perhaps undreamt of by its 

 promoters. The unfortunate patient branded as consumptive, 

 on the insufficient evidence afforded by the present means of 

 making a certain diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, may 

 find himself in the position of a leper — more surely isolated by 

 the natural fears those who encounter him may have of incurring 

 the disease than by all the sanatoria that can be devised. 



So far as children are concerned, the boiling of milk may 

 safely be regarded as of secondary importance so long as 

 windows are kept open and floors frequently scrubbed. 



