112 THE EXTENSION OF THE PRINCIPLE. 
state of large towns, I urged the above considera- 
tions upon their notice, in regard to measles ; 
and long continued experience has convinced me 
that the amount of benefit that would be derived 
from the adoption of the plan I have recom- 
mended, would be scarcely inferior to that which 
has been effected by vaccination in controlling 
the ravages of small pox. With respect to con- 
sumption, could we have such a place of refuge 
as I believe one of these closed houses would 
prove to be, we should then be no longer under 
the painful necessity of sending a beloved relative 
to a distant land for the remote chance of reco- 
very, or too probably to realize the painful de- 
cription of Blackwood, “ Far away from home, 
with strangers around him, a language he does 
not understand, doctors in whom he has no confi- 
dence, scenery he is too ill to admire, religious 
comforters in whom he has no faith, with a deep 
and every day more vivid recollection of domestic 
scenes, — heart-broken — home-sick — friendless 
and uncared-for — he dies." 
Another point, especially worthy of consider- 
ation, is the free admission of light into the dwell- 
ings of all, both rich and poor.* “ Let in the 
sun, and shut out the doctor,” says an old Italian 
* Truly the light is sweet— and a pleasant thing it is to behold 
the sun.” 
