HEALTH CONDITIONS 



learn what things are noxious and take 

 means to avoid them. The spread of tu- 

 berculosis in northern regions in former 

 time was due not so much to the fact that 

 winters were cold as to the battening up of 

 doors and windows. Sometime we shall 

 learn how to warm our houses and at the 

 same time supply them with clean air. 



Ignorance of disease 



There is still widespread ignorance of 

 the nature of contagious disease. There 

 are those who think that a swale or an 

 overflowed stream is in itself a source of 

 disease. The result is, in some parts of 

 the country, that there is too much visiting 

 in case of contagious disease; or persons 

 may have a white fear of all sickness that 

 they cannot understand and thereby avoid 

 the sufferer and leave him without suffi- 

 cient care. 



The lack of knowledge of the nature of 

 disease and the difficulty of securing a phy- 

 sician quickly, no doubt contribute largely 

 to the use of what are called patent medi- 

 cines. I would not condemn all proprie- 

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