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removal will, of course, depend largely upon 

 the simplicity of the furnishing and the intelli- 

 gence which is used in the work. The relega- 

 tion of the work of sweeping and dusting of 

 rooms to ignorant and careless servants, with- 

 out intelligent and persistent supervision, can- 

 not be expected to result in clean living-places. 

 We realize more fully now than ever before, 

 weighing the accumulated experience of years 

 in the light of the new knowledge about the 

 cause of consumption, that this disease is by 

 no means always a hopeless or fatal one. 

 Many persons get well, and many more so far 

 recover as to enjoy years of comfortable life. 

 We do not yet know any particular drug or any 

 especial medical treatment which can be depen- 

 ded upon to cure consumption. But we do know 

 that, by putting the body under certain favor- 

 able conditions proper food, suitable climate, 

 appropriate regimen, and aiding these, when 

 occasion requires, by drugs, the physician can 

 often hold out to his patient this well-grounded 

 hope, that the body's natural safeguards against 

 the invasions of bacteria reinforced in this way 

 may lead him to recovery and a new life. But 



