17 DECEMBER 1910, Page 16

THE CHEAP COTTAGE PROBLEM.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ..srEcTkrov.."]

Sia,—Your correspondent of last week, "Q. V.," makes the common mistake of thinking that those who live much in the open air can dispense with fresh air indoors. This fallacy has cost many lives. Air cannot be stored up in the lungs as water is in a cistern ; it is needed fresh every minute, day and night. Your correspondent speaks of an attack of tuberculosis as though it might be driven off like measles or influenza, perhaps never to return. Tuberculosis, alas ! usually comes to stay, and is only driven away by severe and prolonged efforts, and should not be mentioned in the same breath with a mere

cold in the head.—I am, Sir, &c., ELLEN C. TAIT. Lismullen, Wimbledon Park.