170 A YEAR WITHi A WHALER 



them. He taught the natives how to sew to- 

 gether sputum cups of skin and cautioned the 

 afflicted ones against expectoration except in 

 these receptacles. 



The Eskimos were alive to the seriousness of 

 the situation and did their utmost to follow out 

 these hygienic instructions to the last detail. As 

 a result of this first missionary campaign in the 

 cause of health, the Eskimos have begun to keep 

 their igloos clean and to ventilate them in winter. 

 There has grown up among them an unwritten 

 law against indiscriminate expectoration more 

 carefully observed than such ordinances in 

 American cities. The villages have been gradu- 

 ally turned into open-air sanitariums and the 

 death rate from tuberculosis has been materially 

 reduced. 



