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against the possibility of their catching tuberculosis. 

 At Falkenstein, the parent institution, much meat is 

 insisted on; but I am told that at Nordrach Dr. Walther 

 now gives very little meat, and sends away patients if 

 they take any stimulant at all. He does cram them, but 

 it is with enormous quantities of milk, cheese, butter, 

 brown bread, and other farinaceous foods. 



When I came home from Germany last year I noted 

 three things which I hold to be of the utmost impor- 

 tance, and in which we seemed in England to be decid- 

 edly behind other nations. First, I wished to see estab- 

 lished public slaughterhouses, duly inspected, not only 

 in large towns, but in every village where beasts are 

 slaughtered. It seems to me absurd to expect that the 

 man who buys a beast, kills it himself, and counts on 

 selling the meat at a profit, should forego his gains 

 solely for the public good. Meat is constantly eaten 

 which is rejected by the Jewish priests, and I believe it 

 is a statistically established fact that Jews have a great 

 immunity from both consumption and cancer. It used 

 to be supposed that this was because they were of a dif- 

 ferent race from ourselves. I believe it is because they 

 are much cleaner feeders than we are. 



Secondly, I would gladly have seen greater intelli- 

 gence and knowledge on the part of the public as re- 

 gards the danger to children and invalids who live 

 almost exclusively on milk of drinking it unsterilised 

 or unboiled, since one tuberculous cow infects the whole 

 supply, and this is not possible to detect by any analysis 

 of the milk. 



Thirdly, I wished that the German rational outdoor 

 treatment of consumptive patients, when once they have 

 caught tuberculosis, or are so constituted that they are 

 likely to catch it, should be understood and practised in 

 England. 



