nil i \< i ro THE 1 IRST \MI i;i< vN 

 i hi i [ON 



I\ ;: i- mi: to thr I jiKuah-tspcaking world, ami particularly 



luilation -i th,- <*iay 



i.-tn. th. (lestrcs to state that, 



< ndeavof ike an exact a translation as poNii- 



N. . hr !"..im.i it necessary to change several pnnnagrn, making 



niiflBloii8. Hi- reason for having done ao 



will I is to all who have M ilmonary tuberculosis 



orconsuinpti''!!. i :iUo m it* sociological 



aspects, and who will bear in inin<l thr fn.-t that the habit* and 



MS diiT.-r, and that in a popular essay it is abso- 



tO t:ikr thrsr lifTrn-ncrs into :K IlllW, 



ary lx*fon* th.- original German 



eay n.ul.l :i|.jM-:ir in print, that thr antli-.r -h..ul.l rnn^-nt to 



makr niges bearing on the social . of con- 



> belonging t ng class in Germany. These 



changes were suggested in !< tail )>y th judges who awarded th- 



With a p-nrro>ity whirh r:uniot lx? lauded too highly, 



these gentlemen did i tmi in the essays, subn. 



to thnii for . all <>\<T the world, a complete 



th< lalx>r legislation, of the sanitary laws and 



i are now in vogu< in tlu Gentian 



rinpir :i.l th.-y thr essayists to U- familiar \\i h 



local ri.n.iiM-! i- ;ig all that would or 



would not be pra arrying out of suggestions to 



prevent the ~j.iv:. ment of tuU-rrulouB diseases. 



than 

 in th- tcs, and * -r f-lt it his duty to speak in 



'f all t hr ini{x>rtant points bearing dir 



on tl i losis as a " social disease " in America. 



of alcoholism, of child-labor, of thr overcrowding of 



teneinnit lious< - anitary dwellings of the poor in 



:il, of overwork and unsanitary fa - also some of 



thr causes of malnutrition or underfeeding of the laboring 



classes, a <*1 as fully as the nature of such an essay 



As an exanr of making certain changes in 



this work, intmdrd for an American puMir. I may be per- 

 mitted t' laboring man 



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