. Town and city. eks to two years. 10. Bright sunshine kills them in a fewhours. 11. Boiling kills them at once. 12. Cold does them no harm. 13. They can live and float around in thedriest dust. 14. They may give tuberculosis to anypart of the body. 15. They give it to the lungs most often. 16. Tuberculosis of the lungs is what wecall consumption. The discovery of all these facts, one by one, was excit-ing to every doctor, every scientist, and every consump-tive who heard about them ; for each one knew that aturning point had come in the history of the disease, andthat there was hope now for t
. Town and city. eks to two years. 10. Bright sunshine kills them in a fewhours. 11. Boiling kills them at once. 12. Cold does them no harm. 13. They can live and float around in thedriest dust. 14. They may give tuberculosis to anypart of the body. 15. They give it to the lungs most often. 16. Tuberculosis of the lungs is what wecall consumption. The discovery of all these facts, one by one, was excit-ing to every doctor, every scientist, and every consump-tive who heard about them ; for each one knew that aturning point had come in the history of the disease, andthat there was hope now for thousands of people whowere hopeless before. THE ENEMY OF THE CITY, —TUBERCULOSIS 195 It was also clear that, from the highest to the lowest,from the richest to the poorest, from the wisest to themost ignorant, all sorts of people were exposing othersto the disease every day, and that each one was blame-less ; for until Kochs great discovery no one knew thefacts about the tubercle bacillus. Now, however, various. UC 113 1;20 12*2 124 120 128 130 132 134 130133138il43 H2 144 140 148 100 152 ICr) 130 138 1334 162 164 Cherry Street Lung Block The shaded parts show couHs and air shafts. Each letter stands for one case ofconsumption reported since 1894. All the as belong to 1894, the bs to1895, the cs to 1896, etc., up to 1903 earnest men and women learned these facts by heartand studied the history of tuberculosis in cities. They found that, as a rule, there is more consump-tion in the crowded parts of a city than anywhere else,and that even here there is the greatest difference inspecial houses and special rooms. This was the casewith what is called Lung Block in New York during nine years two hundred and sixty-five caseswere reported to the health department, and very many 196 TOWN AND CITY more were unreported. Single rooms also told theirsad stories. Mr. Ernest Poole, who has studied the subjectthoroughly, gives the report of one of these rooms forseven years. He say
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