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(3). Overcrowded Rooms and excesses of all kinds must be
avoided. Your house and surroundings must be in every way clean
and sanitary.
(4) Promiscuous Spitting must be avoided by yourself and by
your companions and fellow workers.
(5). There is no danger in living with consumptives provided
the suggested precautions are taken. Hospital nurses do not catch
consumption in properly managed hospitals.
Lastly, remembe that fresh air and sunshine tend to cure and
prevent not only consumption, but many other diseases.
Remember that it is as injurious to breathe the contaminated air
of an unventilated room as to drink water contaminated with sewage.
H. MEREDITH RICHARDS, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall, Croydon.
Note.—Patients should give ample notice to the Medical Officer of Health of their
intention to remove, together with full address of their intended future residence.