FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 





The education which the patients receive at the Sanitarium as to the nature of 

 their disease and the methods to be relied upon in combating it, is of the utmost value 

 to them, enabling them to preserve their health and avoid relapses after they have 

 left the institution ; and this education is not limited to themselves, but is imparted 

 by them to the great mass of people with whom they come in contact. 



In addition, the attempt to cure pulmonary tuberculosis by institutional treatment, 

 and the practical demonstration which it has given of the possibility of accomplishing 

 this in many cases, have cast a ray of light on one of the darkest problems which con- 

 front medical science, and have proved an object-lesson which has, perhaps, not been 

 without influence in creating the present popular demand that the State supplement 

 pnvate philanthropy in the establishment of similar institutions under its control. 



Now that the State of New York has decided to assume the institutional treatment 

 of tuberculosis as one of the practical means of combating this widespread disease, it 

 is to be congratulated on having within its borders a region which experience has 

 shown to be admirably adapted to the treatment of consumption. 



AN EARLY START. 



