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NATURE 



1911 



the disease it may be i.il:' n Imn iIp- luini.-m s\si,-iii 

 in various wnvs in lln- toi.d ur i:il<>-, iIh ,iii w , 

 III. Mill.', in lb.- (lusi (if ilii- III, .Ml, III till- ^ii.ci, \)\ 

 tlir^, (iirl\ liiu''!-., I'll'' '/en 



Olilrr \\ .i\ - ill \\ llii li • : '-.'id. 



He mnvidrrs dial i-it;lii-!''nl h- i>t all (•i\ili--«'(.l jiroplr 

 hnvf had 1 III.! 1 1 mIm-i- ai'd lia\i- I i'cn\i i-i(i fidtn it 

 uilliiiui '■ al all aliniit ii. 



Ill s|iii, wi .111 Ml,-,, .111' I (list 1 iliiiia ill \ii\ |)(i|Milai' 

 Ianj4iiaL;i- Inlifi'culuNis id \aiinu> I\|ii'^. Ik- siairs ]ii> 

 lii'iiid thai il VM- ididd |iiii a -^iMp In tlir di ^^i-in inat ii m 

 (d thr tuhiiidi- liarillii-~ \\i- (luild put an ind nut oidx' 

 III |uilniiinar\ 1 1 >iisiiii ipi ii m . hill cinild diinini--li nur 

 ('fi|iplcs li\ I \v ii-ihird-~, cases nf scfnlula li\ thrrc- 

 fourths, ihr fatal convuisinns uf (hildhmul li\ a half, 

 and idiminatc a \i-f\' laf^c pfupi utii mi id the fatal 

 Imwil disr,i>,i-^ that Dicnf ill idiildliodcl. His optiniisin 

 ai^ain nimiv Imward when hf (~(insidrrs Os!rr\ statc- 

 nifiit that ■' we t(i-da\' lain rallirf less than hall the 

 risK of (KIni; id ciinsiiniiJtinn that our L;ran(H;itliers 

 did and liandx thrrc-Fnurths <if the risic that our 

 parents ditl." 



I )i . Iiui(hins(in nou and attain drifts into what 

 mav he railed Dooleyisms, which have a distinctly 

 original flavour about them, and certainly tend to 

 amuse, and, at the same time, to g^jve us " furiously 

 to think." As in the following : — 



" If the rich had more sense and the poor more 

 inoney, and both more public spirit, consumption 

 would soon be a thing^ of the past. And it would 

 be only onr of many evils which would disappear in 

 th(^ |)rocess." 



Ag^ain, when speaking of fresh air, he says : — 



" Like other necessities of existence, it goes with 

 the land, somebody else is going to get too little air, 

 not to mention food and other incidentals. This isn't 

 socialism— it's sanitary science. ... It costs monev 

 to have plenty of fresh air to eat, even though the air 

 is free . . . the one thing which no intelligent, 

 civilised community can afford under anv circumstances, 

 is to allow any section, or class of it, to grow up with- 

 out sufficient food to eat, air to breathe, and fuel to 

 burn. . . . Wipe out the conditions which create con- 

 sumption, and you will at the same stroke abolish 

 half our crime and two-thirds of our pauperism ! " 



Dr. Hutchinson, after giving his niessage of hope 

 describing the bacillus as the enemv, the weapons of 

 the war to be waged against him, gives chapters on 

 "Fresh air and how to get it," ••Sunlight : the real 

 golden touch," " Food, the greatest foe of consump- 

 tion," "Work and rest: intelligent idleness," •'Fho 

 canip .and the country." '■Cash and consumption," 

 "("lini.aie and health," ,and •.Specifications for the 

 open-.iir treatment at home." 



Speaking of the open-air treatment of consumption 

 and camp-life, he says : — 



" The cure of consumption is not a drug-; or an 

 operation, or ,1 in<agic method of any sort. It is a 

 \\\c that must be lived twenty-three hours and sixtv 

 minutes out of the twenty-four, .and seventy years out 

 of your threescore and ten. You cannot learn it 

 properly by being told about it. or lectured about ir. 

 or advised about it ever so wisely you must live it." 



Referring to the ecoiK^inic aspect of the 

 question, under the heading "Cash and Con- 

 NO, 21 ;i, VOL. 86] 



siiiiipt ion," th'- .author lMiii-\i-. ih.al ili-- ('nn- 

 iniiniiv should provide •' '• ^r the worker 



iw nriivi I from his tulu o ■ ronfnds that 



it can \, r\ well .atfoi. 

 suppi in iiiL; his w !<;■ ■ 



children. |t is on this li.isis th.il he speaks of jxjverty 

 as the must e\|)ensivi thing in the world for any 

 comnuinitv when cjuoiing ihe t.ahles of Korosi, which 

 sh.ou th.it ,,t . ■■•.. ..,„„, WI ll-to-d. •■■ •• nnlv forty 

 die .annu.all- .aipiion; of i: aiinber (jf 



moder.iN 1\ ■,', ill-;,,-,: ■ d of 



p.lUpels, .,-. II,- i; -ound 



hiologic.al h.isis fur oar ijisir, :. for he pf>iri!~ 



out thai h\ heiiimin:; si 1 -w. .lUf (h.niies ■ •' 



dviiiL; Iioiii mill ri ulosiv tift\ jj.-r lent." 



1 here i,, a(i(,d -,i,und. comnion--.ense in liii vn..)/.- r 

 on clim.ate .and he.dth, which conlaiiis the following 

 st.ilenient : — 



"If .ainone goes .South to .av' rouble of 



ventilating,' ids hedroom properly, or i.u-;liig sufficiently 

 vigorous exercise in the o|)en air to g^et up a glow 

 and defv the frost, he is doing himself harm rather 

 than good." 



\\'herever \(iii go, the .author s.av-, go to a 

 where vou can he conifori.able, where you cai^ ,., 

 plentv of good and che.ap food, where you can live 

 in the open air without discomfort, where you will 

 not be fwerworked, and where vou can carry out to 

 the full .all the lessons learnt in the sanatorium. We 

 have enjoved reading Dr. Woods Hutchinson's book, 

 and we can recommend it to .all who like common- 

 sense .and caii .ippreci.ate the writing of a man who 

 knows his owii mind concernirig th' with 



which he is dealing. 



VROCKVSS i\ (;II^I.s■ i-nrcATioy. 



Puhlir Scht'-'ls for Girls : a >cri<-s of Papers mi their 

 llistorv, Aims, and Sclicmes 0/ Studv. hv ^lcruhcr^ 

 of the Association of Ileadnii ■ Edited by 



S,ar,a .\. Burst.all ,and M. A. Dou, a. xv-30.'. 



(London: Longmans, Oreen, ,ind Co., i<)ii.) Price 

 45. od. 



THIS is a hook calculated to rejoice tin- he.art of 

 .111 educational worker, not so much for the 

 wisdom it cont,ains ,as for tlie e\idenc(^ it affords of the 

 spirit animatirig the educ.ation.al policy of our leading 

 English schixds for girls. Here we have twenty-four 

 •ss.ivs rel.iting to the subjects of girls" education, 

 written hv experienced headmistresses, who one and 

 ,(11 seem to have .a real /eal for their work, and a 

 humble-minded desin^ to tind the best way of doing it. 

 There is .a sense (^f sincerity, earnesines,., .and warmth 

 in the es>,i\ s that is liighly ideasing, and .a willingness 

 to look .at new [iroiiosals .and plans that contrasts 

 most favourably with the self-confidence, and subacid 

 raillerv sornetimes affected by the high-placed 

 pedagogue. 



The ess.ivs .are the outcome of a sviggestion made 

 l>v Mrs. Woodhous,-, when president of the Associa- 

 tion e.\ Head Mistrts.is lor ]-„'-~n. and they are 

 edited by her succ- ssor. Mis^ H .r-t.all, and Miss 

 Douglas, chairnian of the curricula subcommittee. 



