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the ocean. This new addition to New York's equipment has one 

 thousand beds and is called the " Sea View Hospital." 



At the Second Annual Meeting of the National Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis held in Washington in 1906, 

 the following resolution was offered by Dr. John W. Brannan and 

 unanimously adopted : 



Whereas, Recent experience in Europe and in this country has shown that 

 out-door Hfe in pure air has the same curative effect in surgical tuberculosis 

 as in tuberculosis of the lungs, therefore, be it 



Resolved, That in the opinion of members of this Association hospitals 

 and sanatoria should be established outside of cities either in the country or 

 on the seashore for the treatment from its incipiency, of tuberculosis of 

 bones, joints, and glands in children. 



SEACOAST AND FOGS 



Marine climates naturally include the strictly ocean climate and 

 that of the seacoast. In the former sea air comes from every point 

 of the compass. It is always moist and it is the most equable air that 

 blows ; it is of infinite variety from the dead calm of the doldrums to 

 the fierce gales of the North Atlantic. 



The atmosphere of the seacoast is naturally modified at times by 

 continental influences. Indeed the characteristic " sea breeze " which 

 springs up in the morning and subsides toward sun-down is brought 

 about by the ascent of heated air back of the_ coast. The hotter the 

 interior and the more rapidly this air ascends the stronger is the 

 sea breeze which rushes shoreward from the ocean and penetrates 

 for fifty or a hundred miles the adjoining country. 



But under other conditions land breezes occur and bring to the 

 shore the Continental atmosphere of a totally different type. These 

 atmospheric conflicts between sea and land involve most interesting 

 meteorological problems ; they tend to lessen the equability of the 

 purely marine or oceanic climate. Freezing weather is the product 

 of the Continent and the descent of cold waves from the interior ; 

 it brings to our northern seacoast frost and snow for a time, and 

 never trespassing far upon the high seas. The seacoast has thus a 

 mixture of two climates, but the sea air predominates and is never 

 absent very long. 



There are well-known places in America and in the British Islands 

 where the sea breeze greatly predominates ; Nova Scotia, Cape Cod, 

 and Cape May in the United States ; Land's End and the Cornish 

 Coast in England are cases in point. In such exposed situations the 

 air is generally poorly adapted to the tuberculous patient. The air 



