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secluded with good results, while patients affected with the more 

 surely fatal tuberculosis are permitted to live on terms of closest 

 intimacy with their families, and to frequent public resorts without 

 any limitations or attempt to guard others from infection. As a 

 resu It we see the members of large families falling victims to this 

 dise ase one after another, and about one-tenth of the whole human 

 race dying from this one disease. If Asiatic cholera should gain 

 as many victims in one year as tuberculosis gains every year, it 

 would be regarded as an alarming condition of affairs, and every 

 available means would be used to check it. 



We do not want to take any backward steps in the matter of 

 controlling, and so far as possible exterminating, bovine tubercu- 

 losis, but this work is rendered of almost no avail so long as 

 scarcely any measures are taken to limit human tuberculosis. No one 

 who is acquainted with the facts will deny that a large propdrtion 

 of human tuberculosis is preventable. An extreme conservatism 

 and disregard of the value of human life should no longer be 

 allowed to hinder the adoption of such practical means as will 

 save countless lives. There are evident difficulties to be encoun- 

 tered in carrying out any effective measures, but they are not 

 insurmountable, and the end to be attained will justify the adop- 

 tion of radical measures for the good of humanity. 



