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Show Schools for Tuberculous Children. Special schools for tuberculous children chil-dren have now been established in Providence, Boston, New York, Rochester, Roches-ter, Washington, Hartford, Conn., Chicago Chi-cago and Pittsburg. New York has three schools and Washington, D. C, two. The board of education of New York city is proposing to establish three more, and similar institutions are being planned in Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Newark, N. J. In cities like Providence, Boston and New York, where outdoor schools have been conducted for two years, the results re-sults obtained from the treatment of children In special tuberculosis open air schools seem to show the great advantage ad-vantage of this class of institutions. This, coupled with the experience of open air schools in Germany and England, Eng-land, proves that children can be cured of tuberculosis and keep up with their school work, without any danger to fellow pupils. |