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GEORGE H. BAILEY. 
sumption is notorious, and Kennan reports it to be the great 
scourge of Siberian prisons. Dr. J. B. Ransom, physician of 
the State prison, Clinton County, New York, states that the 
percentage of total deaths from tubercular disease in that prison 
is over 8o per cent. In a lying-in hospital in Berlin was a nurse 
whose business was to resuscitate children who were born as¬ 
phyxiated by breathing into their lungs. Of ten infants so 
treated every one died of tuberculosis. The nurse died and 
upon examination showed that her lungs were tuberculous. 
The children were all shown to have been of healthy parents. 
The British Medical Journal reports the following, which 
shows the tenacity of the life of the bacillus under ordinary con¬ 
ditions : “ A family of nine occupied a house inhabited ten 
years previously by two tuberculous patients. A short time 
after, although the whole family had been in splendid health, 
three among them showed symptoms of tuberculosis. They 
used the same bed-room as the former tenants. Dr. Ducor had 
pieces of wall paper and dust from the ceiling and walls exam¬ 
ined. In both cases the tubercle bacillus was found. Dr. Flink 
(M. D.), at a recent meeting held to discuss this subject, showed 
by a map of the city of Philadelphia, which located every house 
in the fifth ward in which tuberculosis had occurred iu twenty- 
five years, that the disease chiefly prevailed in a series of in¬ 
fected houses which constituted less than one-third of all the 
houses in the ward, but furnished more than half the deaths. 
It was also observed that a large percentage of all the cases of 
mesenteric tuberculosis in children occurred in these houses.” 
Direct inoculation is also another source of danger. Dr. 
Ernst cites a case of localized tuberculosis of the tongue : “ A 
gentleman perfectly well on Thanksgiving day, by eating some¬ 
thing affected with tuberculosis, became infected with tubercu¬ 
losis of the tongue. He had a nodule half as large again as an 
English walnut, which was pure tuberculosis, as was shown un¬ 
der the microscope in a piece taken off with the use of cocaine.” 
A woman whose ancestors were without tuberculous taint, ate 
eleven chickens bought from a neighbor. These chickens had 
