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and then the mother look a drink out of the tumbler and then the 

 tumbler was placed back on the stand by the cooler. Now there 

 are other diseases such as you arc exposed to in similar ways, just 

 as you are exposed to tuberculosis. 



I think one of the best investments Pennsylvania ever made was 

 the appropriation of $8,000 for the creation and maintenance of this 

 camp. It has taught the citizens of this Commonwealth who are 

 too poor to go the required distance to health resorts and who are 

 afflicted with this dreadful disease, that they can be cured. It has 

 taught these people to look to the everlasting hills of this Common- 

 wealth with hope and reasonable expectation that they may be cured. 

 If it has done nothing else than to teach our people to live out of 

 doors, it has done a noble work. 



The CHAIR: We are now to be favored with another piece of vocal 

 music by Miss Ethel Patterson. 



Miss Patterson sang a ballad entitled '"Tony and Dons," which 

 was greeted with vigorous applause. 



A Member: Doctor, will you please state the elevation of your 

 Sanitarium at Mont Alto? 



DR. ROTHROCK: 1,600 feet. 



MR. CLARK: I have been very much interested in the consump- 

 tive lands in North Carolina and would like to inquire whether you 

 have made any comparison with reference to the two places. 



DR. ROTHROCK: I have not except in results. I believe that 

 our results are about the same as in North Carolina. I should say 

 this: Ours is simply a camp where we do not feed the patients. We 

 have not the money to feed them. If w r e could give them at least one 

 square meal a day, no doubt we could produce still better results, 

 for everyone knows that the mere effort to prepare food, destroys 

 the appetite. The question of cure for consumption is really a war 

 between repair and destruction, so that it amounts to a question as 

 to whether you can get food enough taken and assimilated to build 

 up faster than you tear down. 



A Member: What is the lowest altitude vou would recommend? 



DR. ROTHROCK: Patients sometimes get well at the level of 

 the sea; on the other hand an excessively high altitude is often a 

 very dangerous one. We had one young man who did not do so 

 well as in Philadelphia, and he was sent to Colorado and died 

 within forty-eight hours after he arrived there. 



BURGESS PENNYPACKER. Won't you preach the gospel of 

 more fresh air in the farmhouses of Pennsylvania? 



