INDEX. 107 



PAGE 



Consumption not one of the highly contagious diseases . . .94 



" of the lungs the most common form of tuberculosis . . 65 



predisposition of certain persons to . . . 59 



prevalence and mortality of ..... 57, 61 



" proper food and surroundings more important than drugs in 



the treatment of ...... 101 



" spre id by meat and milk ...... 64 



" summary of the reasons of prevalence of ... 70 



" transmission of,' in unclean sleeping-cars, bedrooms, and 



steamships ....... 86 



" transmission of, to attendants upon the sick . . .68 



" tubercle bacilli the only direct cause of . . . .59 



" ways in which il is spread by dust . . . .58 



Contagion .......... 93 



Contagiousness, degrees of, in bacterial diseases . . . 94 



Cornet, discovery of tubercle bacilli in consumptives' rooms . . .66 



Cotton filters for bacterial air analysis ...... 14 



Court-rooms, filthy and dangerous air of . . . . -83 



Crime, toleration of filthy cities by the people a . . . -91 



Culture medium for germs ....... 14 



" methods for germs ....... n 



Destruction of discharged material best means for preventing spread of 



bacterial diseases ...... 99 



Diphtheria .......... 55 



Disease, preventable ........ 54 



" relation of dust to . . . . . . . .50 



Diseases, infectious ......... 55 



" " presence of bacteria in explaining many mysteries of . 91 



" " relation of bacteria to ..... 55 



" of occupation . ....... 5 



Disinfection, modern notions of, more precise ..... 93 



Drugs in infectious diseases ....... 96 



Dundee, air analysis in . . . . . . .23 



Dust, as means of spreading consumption or tuberculosis . . .58 



" " source of danger in public assembly rooms . . . .81 



" coal- and cotton- ...... 4 



" dangers of, in public buildings ...... 80 



" -dangers out-doors and in-doors . . . . 74 



" definition of . . . a 



" filtration of, out of lymph in the lungs . . . 45 



" in-doors, germs in . . . . 2 7 



