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"These figures are strikingly confirmed "by those 

 which come from the private sanitarium for consump- 

 tion in Gorbersdorf, Germany. Dr. Brehmer 3 who had 

 been in charge of this large institution for twenty years, 

 states that since the year 1854 more than 10,000 con- 

 sumptives resided in the hospital, who daily walked the 

 streets of the town and commingled with its inhabit- 

 ants. The latter were, therefore, continually respiring 

 an atmosphere which was more or less impregnated 

 with tubercle bacilli emanating from the dried expec- 

 toration of these consumptive visitors, yet, in spite of 

 these favorable conditions for contagion, it appears 

 that the mortality from this disease is 50 per cent less 

 among the Gorbersdorf population since than it was be- 

 fore the establishment of the hospital. 



"The same is true of Falkenstein, a town near Frank- 

 fort, Germany, in close proximity to which Dr. Det- 

 tweiler located a private sanatorium for consumptives 

 in 1877. The health statistics of this place show that 

 during twenty years previous to the establishment of 

 the institution the death-rate from consumption among 

 the Falkenstein inhabitants was 4.0 per 1,000 living, 

 while for eighteen years since its existence the death- 

 rate from this disease fell to 2.4 per 1,000 living inhab- 

 itants. 



"Dr. Haupt, of Soden, a resort for consumptives in 

 the south of Germany states that among the inhabit- 

 ants of this town there are 101 individuals who let 

 lodgings to consumptive visitors during the summer 

 months. These patients are nursed and cared for 

 chiefly by the inmates of the families the work of 



