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Show Wi:le Street as Health rromnter. Dr. Anders has been investigating tho influence of the width of streets in cities on the mortality from phthisis, and as the results of examining into the localization locali-zation of l.oOU deaths he ha.4 arrived at the conclusion that thenumber of deaths from phthisis is smaller in proportion to the population in tiiowide than in the narrow ones, and that in narrow streets the mortality is greatest where they are long or where they form a cul-de-sac. In other words, complete movement of air about dwellings is a point of prime importance in connection with the question ques-tion of pulmonary phthisis. It is on this principle that all modern bylaws as to open space aoont houses are fused, and it is as important to have wide open spaces behind houses as iu front, so as to secure a proper through current of air. The existing tendency to put up an limine limit on the needed area behind dwelling houses is (strongly condemned, as constituting a distinct violation of one of the most vital essentials es-sentials to the promotion of health and pn veution of a certain class of diseased. 1 New York Telegram. i |