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died there during the year after a residence of nine months.
Were a home established where sufferers in an advanced
stage would be removed from houses that afford no
accommodation for the necessary isolation, it would be a
great boon both to the sufferers, since they would receive
there such medical care as their various conditions require,
decent food, and comfortable lodging, and the inhabitants of
the houses from which they were derived would be released
from the danger of having the disease communicated
to them.
Verbal and printed instructions are given to patients,
urging upon them the great necessity of observing hygienic
measures, but it cannot be said that they are observed as
they ought to be. Scrupulous cleanliness, the open window,
healthy exercises, and simple, wholesome food are desiderata
that are unattainable by the average poor consumptive, or do
not appeal to him. If the ambulant sufferer were persuaded
to avoid crowded and particularly dark and crowded places
of public resort it would be conducive to his own health and
the health of others.
Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis numbered 131, the
death rate being 0"89.
The following table shows the ages at which death
occurred in our cases.