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Show SCIENCE AND SANITATION. While the medical profession has devoted most of its energies to the discovery of remedies to correct cor-rect diseases to which humanity seems to be heir, there has gone on a systematic research for the causes of human derangements, partly by doctors, but mostly by men who made small claims of ability abil-ity to heal those afflicted ones who had become infected. in-fected. Yellow fever took thousands of lives because be-cause doctors knew no remedy, but scientists discovered dis-covered that mosquitoes were responsible for the spread of the scourge, and the result is the practical prac-tical elimination of that disease. It is a practical application of the old mountaineer's remedy for rattlesnake bites kill the snake before he gets you. Consumption has lately been the subject of similar sim-ilar investigations, and the sanguine hope has been I expressed by a prominent physician that within twenty-five years tuberculosis will have been virtually vir-tually stamped out in the United States. This hope, however, will never be realized without hearty co-operation of the people of the country. It is based on the supposition that everybody will contribute con-tribute his share to the work of eradication. The disease is seemingly not one which dosing with medicine can reach. Its cure lies in the open air, in the mountains and the sunshine. Instances are not lacking where clerks, office men of all kinds, printers and others whose employment confined them to stuffy offices or damp cellars have gone out into the open, herded sheep or become camp roustabouts roust-abouts on cattle ranches and hare been cured of tuberculosis. A return to their accustomed business busi-ness resulting in a recurrence of the disease and going once more to the open and regaining health having shown conclusively that outdoor life is the only hope of consumptive convalescents, they have gone into the chicken business or farming with more or less profit to themselves and a prospect of living out their allotted three score years and ten. The experience of tnany men and women which prove the efficacy of the outdoor cure, and tho study and observation of scientists and doctors, have led to the formation of a national association for the prevention of the disease. This association recently held a meeting in Washington, which was attended not only by the medical profession but by others interested in the subject from the ranks of educationists and tradesmen. The sentiment was unanimous that bad air, damp workshops, lack of sunshine and a general lack of hygienic and sanitary san-itary conditions ee ihe CSLVlsea of th(? sprpad 0f the disease. This being so, an agitation for improvement im-provement i, thesu things i churches, schools offices, of-fices, stores and Workshops offers a field for reformers re-formers b.roader 'ind one of more benefit to the race than an agitation for more wages or shorter hours could possibly hope to accomplish. In connection; with this question. Bolton Hull outlines ajcheme in a recent article in "Charities and the Common" whereby each town could provide pro-vide a farm home for those who require outdoor work to iavo themselves from death, and this at ! small expanse. The farm home might be self-supporting o even a dividend payer. The scheme looks reasonably and contains an expression of the idea of all mo lorn charity workers that society should be relieved ;is much as possible of the burdens of charity 1 y rendering the beneficiaries self-supporting to a degree, at least. The s iliject of the prevention of tuberculosis is one whit: ii should receive the earnest attention of everybod i and the conditions which conduce to the sprciiIinjr 0f the disease should be removed. The main thing is to place the evidence before the people and thus compel a compliance to such rules of sanitation as arc necessary to protect the public. pub-lic. It is not the right spirit to tell a man to get out if he doesn't like conditions. Those conditions should be as near perfect as modern principles of ventilation and drainage can make them. |