THE WAR AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.
[TO TUE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—May I draw your attention to one of the crying evils in our country which greatly tend towards the increase of consumption? This is the neglect of householders to dis- infect their lodgings after a tuberculosis patient has left them. I know of cases in the country, especially moor resorts, where patients who have had attacks of haemorrhage hare left their rooms in the morning, and fresh lodgers have taken their place in the afternoon, taking possession of their beds and blankets that night. In many cases tired workers from cities, who would be most suseeptible to germs, instead of returning to their work refreshell, and invigorated by their change away, have returned with the seeds of this disease sown in their constitution.—I am, Sir, &c., A. L. F.
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