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But the millennium has not yet come. It is 

 only a hope of the future. 



What is the next best prevention? A rigid 

 quarantine, and a rigid quarantine only. Build 

 sanatoriums for the curables. Build more and 

 greater sanatoriums for the incurables. Within 

 their doors require, by law, all consumptives to 

 enter. Except doctor and nurse, all others for- 

 bidden. Over every door, " No Admittance." 

 Draw the line as stringently as for smallpox 

 and keep it drawn. The permanently cured to re- 

 turn to society; the others to remain. 



But is not this severe? Separating the sick and 

 suffering ones from home and loving friends? 

 Most assuredly. Terribly severe. Little less than 

 a legal outrage. 



But what of it? The surgeon's knife is always 

 severe. The deeper the wound, the deeper the cut. 

 But which the severer, knife or death? Those 

 stricken with the Plague going to hospitals, where 

 every necessity and comfort are provided for their 

 well being, or the continued suffering and death 

 of more than five and a half millions every year? 

 Which the greater outrage, wholesale prevention 

 in the kindest way possible, or wholesale slaugh- 

 ter in the cruellest way possible? Which is wiser? 

 The better? The kinder? The more humane? 



On this higher basis we honor our domestic herds. 

 The State draws the line. No Jersey, Holstein or 

 other breed can come across until the tuberculin 

 test is applied and the animal found whole. The 



