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ously necessary preventive measures. These 

 ends ought to be secured first by a more rigid 

 inspection of cattle and of meat on the part of 

 authorized persons, and second by the enact- 

 ment of such laws as would secure for persons 

 who knowingly sell tuberculous meat or milk 

 for food such penalties as they would incur 

 from any other form of purposed or care- 

 less poisoning of their fellow-men. 



It would be very difficult to stop by any sort 

 of legal enactment the spread of the tubercle 

 bacilli by means of the air from man to man. 

 But a thorough acquaintance of all persons 

 with the fact that a consumptive patient may 

 be 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 accommodations 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 



