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Show Prevention of Tuberculosis. The pathologists of the New York city health department, in their report on the prevention of tuberculosis, specially emphasize em-phasize the following facts: First, that tuberculosis is a distinctly preventable disease; second, that it is not directly Inherited; In-herited; and, third, that it is acquired by the direct transmission of the tubercle bacillus from the sick to the healthy, usually by means of the dried and pulverized pul-verized tputum floating as dust in the air. The measures, then, which are suggested sug-gested for tho prevention of the spread of tuberculosis are: First, the security of , the public against tuberculous meat and milk, attained by a system of rigid official inspection of cattle; second, tho dissemination dissem-ination among the people of the knowledge knowl-edge that every tuberculous person may ' be a tource of actual danger to his asso-! ciales, if the discharges from the lungs I are not immediately destroyed or render j ed hai nile;s. and. third, the careful disinfection dis-infection of rooms and hospital ward that are occupied, or have been occupied, by phthisical patients. Boston Herald. |
