Show consumption contagious consumption is in one of the most moat dreaded of all diseases because it is in so 0 o many oases cases fatal sooner or later once the lungs lunge are firmly in the grasp of the destroyer the downward dow anward is traveled and the bottom reached with reasonable certainty and but slightly vary varying ing celerity it had not hitherto been regarded as contagious hut several gentlemen prominent in the practice and study of medicine have late lately lyso so declared it and they are obtaining now new recruits every day A recent number of the medical record contains a paper by dr J G 0 hopkins of Thomas thomasville ville oa in which he said he fie had joined the growl growing nit army spoken of placing tuberculosis in the category of con and his experience with this disease during nineteen years of investigation vesti gation in Thomas thomasville ville which place is a resort for consumptives ives bore him out in his bis pinion and made a willing subject of the great and erudite koch re he dow does not doubt that all meu men wom women en and children at some time or time receive into their air passages the tubercle bacilli but fortunately the great majority possessed the power of repelling them and throwing them oft off they did not find that soil so to speak which is adapted to their growth indians indiana in a state of nativity deemed impervious to me germs of consumption iop but were now dj d ing by thousands on the reservations the whites and the blacks in prisons all over the world labored under similar conditions A report irom the illinois state prison at J list liet says that there are 1400 convicts within the A allmand all allio Band and fully one third of thega have consumption in a light or bad form nearly all deaths of persons in the penitentiary have been caused by eon con the doctor lays particular stress upon ahe danger thal thai lurks in sleeping oars cars carpets bed bedding diug clothing and even in the walls of apartments which have been occupied by consumptives ives and have not been properly renovated and made harmless by antiseptic meas meae pres oreb consumptives ives should be forced to provide for the ze t destruction of sputa whenever situated so as not to 0 expectorate directly into a germicide ur or the tre fire thy should use some means mean of the sputa to the gorm germicide laide jer or the fl flandes anses if handkerchiefs or clothes are used they shaul ld not be sent to the laundry as aa human happiness and life are jeopardized through the probability ot of inoculation through abrasions upon the hands these bacilli should never be allowed to dry up and impregnate the air as is now done through ignorance of possible result numerous expert ments by leading medical authorities have proved beyond doubt that consumption is an disease and 0 so o rapidly is the throng of converts growing that the speaker would not be surprised it if even in his day resorts now soliciting the patronage of the consumptive will be quarantined against him utah IN ie we believe as nearly free from this scourge as aa any other part of the country still eull we do have a case cage now and thea and the suggestions contained in the foregoing may be useful |