Show CONSUMPTION AT BAY Plans for Future Treatment the Disease which Seem Feasible There are two facts regarding consumption regrd InS sumption which although long known and insisted upon by a few sanitarians I and physicians have only recently ben generally admitted I is upon these I two facts the contagiousness of the disease and its Gullibility In the early I stages that the modern sanatorium treatment of tuberculosis has been founded Consumption Is not contagious In the same sense as smallpox for If certain cer-tain necessary precautions arc taken a tuberculosis subject la little more dangerous to the health of those about him than Is a well person but If these essentials are neglected tlC danger Is very great and very real Now among the very poor especially those living In large cities It Is practically prac-tically Impossible to enforce the observance ob-servance of these precautions and consequently con-sequently each consumptive Is 0 center cen-ter whence the disease may and probably prob-ably will spread in countless direc tons The transfer of such a patient to a sanatorium removes at once a source of peril to the community anal an-al the same time gives the patient himself him-self the best and often his only chance of recovery The main elements of I sanatorium are an treatment in a sanatorium abundance of fresh and pure air I wholesome food rest and exercise in I the proper proportions and prompt destruction de-struction of the bacillusladen expectorated expec-torated matters I muters Formerly sanatoria wee accessible only to the welltodo and the poor those who ned this form of treatment the most were barred A movement i I has started recently looking to the sllted Institutions for the treat I ercclon Insttutons the of ment of the poor at the expense State and to Massachusetts with Its I State hospital for consumptives at Rutland Slate belongs the honor of being the first of the United States to bulk I such frsl sanatorium When not only II large city as i every State but eel large wel for the institutions well has similar tltlons treatment hoS and the sanitary education It I of the consumptive we may hope to I t from this great white see the fatalities 110m ugcat fataltes I become as rare as those from I whoopingcough plague beome or a cold in the head I Youths Companion YOUtlR I |