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spreading it among his neighbors. This is done by the board of 

 health requiring the quarantine or the isolation of the person 



Nat. T. B. Assn. 



Some health agencies, schools, and sanitariums provide camps for children who are under- 

 nourished or who have been in direct contact with persons suffering from tuberculosis. 



having the disease. No one save the doctor and the nurse should 

 enter the room of the person quarantined. After the disease has 

 run its course, the clothing, bedding, etc., in the sick room are dis- 

 infected. This is known as terminal disinfection. 



Tuberculosis, which not many years ago killed fully one seventh 

 of the people who died from disease in this country, now kills less 

 than one tenth. This decrease has been brought about largely 

 through the treatment of the disease. Since it has been proved 

 that tuberculosis, if treated early enough, is cured by quiet living, 

 good food, and plenty of fresh air and light, we find that numerous 

 sanitariums have come into existence which are supported by 

 private or public means. At these sanitariums the patients live 

 out of doors, and sleep in the open air, and have plenty of nourish- 



