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It seems to me that in order to act with the greatest possible promptitude, without waiting for a law which will order the internment of tubercular patients and the construction of hospitals to receive them, it would be easy and by no means costly to withdraw from intercourse with their fellows those patients dangerous, and who who are are recertainly particularly the bulk of tubercular for sponsible contagion greater in Paris. I have therefore proposed the erection, on the outParis, of suitable huts, such as would be skirts of quite sufficiently comfortable, to shelter these unfortunates during the last months of their lives.

But what of the rest doctor it to is is so necessary to these poor patients, yet so rarely obtained in hospital ? Every day, early in the morning, the process of cleaning begins and goes on all day, except when the doctors or relatives are visiting the wards. The nurses empty the spittoons and chamber-utensils, polish, dust, sweep, make the beds, roll them into the middle of the ward, pile up the in short, the patient is and the bed-tables routed out and put back again at least once a day. During the night his neighbour coughs or groans or chairs : and fro in the ward, makes her rounds.

This prohibition is the necessary corol- lary of the request that consumptives shall employ a pocket spittoon. Under present conditions it is quite hopeless to count on the general use of this protective appliance. For the majority of patients it constitutes a sort of dishonouring label, proclaiming their malady, which they take very good care not to exhibit in public, especially under the conditions which would indicate its employment. INDIGENT CONSUMPTIVES 39 an extraordinary fact that in collectivities in workshops, etc.

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