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a source of actual danger to all about him, 

 unless the proper precautions are adopted, 

 would do much to lessen the evil. 



Steamship and railroad companies should 

 be obliged to furnish separate accommo- 

 dations for persons thus affected, so that no 

 well person should ever be forced in the 

 exigencies of travel to expose himself to the 

 liability of infection. 



Such regulations and discriminations as are 

 here suggested would of course often be 

 extremely annoying to the victims of the 

 disease and their friends as well as to all 

 immediately concerned. But some such un- 

 derstanding must be come to, unless people 

 are to go on needlessly dying from this most 

 important disease. 



The best way of disposing of the sputum 

 of consumptive persons, which, if allowed to 

 dry, may, as we have seen, become the source 

 of active danger to themselves as well as to 

 others, is by burning. 



It may be received into small cheap wooden 

 or pasteboard boxes, which are now made and 

 sold very cheap by the druggists, and which 



