72 DUST AND ITS DANGERS. 



very fine fibre particles are always very 

 readily detached, and would carry with them 

 dried particles of germ-laden material, should 

 such have been allowed to fall upom them. 



But if cloths must be used, as will often be 

 the case, either to receive the expectoration or 

 for wiping the mouth, they should be such as 

 can be as speedily as possible burned with 

 their contents. When handkerchiefs are used 

 they should be as early as possible boiled for a 

 full hour in a receptacle by themselves before 

 they are washed in the ordinary way. Cheap 

 paper cuspidores are now made which should 

 be placed in all apartments frequented by con- 

 sumptives, and frequently changed and with 

 their contents burned. 



The greatest drawback in the suggestion of 

 such rules of procedure as would be efficient in 

 preventing the spread of tuberculosis is the 

 certainty that they will not, in a great many 

 cases, be followed. Persons who are cleanly 

 enough in private houses will spit upon the 

 street, or in public conveyances, or on the 

 floor of theatres and other places of assembly, 

 and until the knowledge that the sputum of 



