. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . e; El Paso, nearly3,000, and San Antonio, 3,500. But per cent of the consumptives dying inAlbuquerque were born in New Mexico. But per cent of the consumptivesdying in El Paso were born in Texas. Furthermore, a very large proportion of those traveling about in trains inthe health resort region are in the last stages of the disease, and a fair pro-portion of those on the through trains entering the resort region are very faradvanced cases. The lessons are two. First, very advanced cases should stay at chance of cure is very slight. The chance o
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . e; El Paso, nearly3,000, and San Antonio, 3,500. But per cent of the consumptives dying inAlbuquerque were born in New Mexico. But per cent of the consumptivesdying in El Paso were born in Texas. Furthermore, a very large proportion of those traveling about in trains inthe health resort region are in the last stages of the disease, and a fair pro-portion of those on the through trains entering the resort region are very faradvanced cases. The lessons are two. First, very advanced cases should stay at chance of cure is very slight. The chance of accidents on the road is notto be overlooked. The sick must see that going away is bad judgment. The second lesson is that the climate cannot cure unless it has a fairchance. Wandering around from place to place does not help. Restlessness isa serious handicap. The best chance lies in settling down in one place, gettinginto the hands of well-equipped physicians and nurses and obeying orders. 92 CONSUMPTION CARE OF CONSUMPTIVES. Fig. 45.—Sputum Cup. Custodial care of consumptives is better than no care at all; curative careis, of course, better; and best of all is prevention. So much for the standpointof the sick person. From the standpoint of the community, custodial care isbest. Consumption is generally contracted through continuous, close, personalcontact. Air infection and milk infection are of consequence, but continuouscontact infection leads all the rest. It is in the home that the conditions of close, continuous, personal contact are most fre-quently found. Therefore the most importantconsideration is to get consumptives from theirfamilies into the hospitals, where they will havecustodial care. A French physician has recently investi-gated 500 consumptives, with a view of discover-ing whether susceptibility to the disease is in-herited. The conclusion at which he arrived isthat a case in the family increases the tendencyto the disease to at least the second generatio
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