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they be inoculated with the poison or devour the sputum of tuber- 

 culous persons. The owners of cattle may well consider whether 

 they ought not to prevent phthisical patients from working 

 amongst their stock ; and the authorities may yet find it necessary 

 to forbid the employment of such persons in connection with the 

 distribution of milk, in butcher's shops, and in every other 

 occupation which makes it easy for articles of food to be poisoned 

 by their breath — laden, as it must be, with the germs of so fatal 

 a disease. 



