* '1 i '
 Ei '.


any --o climate,


wherever


may


the development or even the increase of tubercu


-ViS .consumption
fesre it is, not.


exists everywhere.


There is no favored


There is no promised land


for, our con*-


,tai.ve


sufferers where


bieers."
Medical


fpively.
he, near
bthisis.


strary,
 ideamics


-It has


they will


to meet


The valuable statistics which we


Reports


England


been long thought


poles,


instance


But, notwithstanding


the Army


diseases of


demonstrate


that


were


consumptive
get from the


con-


intensely cold coun-


absolutely free


positive


Reports tell us that,


chest


furnish


from


assertion


" with the exception of


the largest


quota


 V
.
 *'


4*1


tality,"'


mention


that


"consumption


s common."


it in Shetland and Iceland


, according to the excellent author-


wee quot'e(fy 0. T.


says


Parkes


liams


(op. cit.).


(Practical


"The Artny M


Hygiene),


" show


dical


how little


ce can be


placed


on the


cold-immunity


theory,


rs that


mortality in


Bengal


from


phthisis is almost


same


ipeotively).
:ceedingly h(
laign one of
ies where tb


as in Canada


Presidency


region,


the lowest


British


Army


phthisis
army is


(1.70


of Madras,


Reports,


mortalities


stationed


which


says


1,000,
is an


Wilhiams,


of all, the coun-


while


- Aid

1'Ir'ft


among the


poys, the mortality from


cause


is even


less."*


"But,"


In 1870 the detbath from consumption in


000, more than


the United States amounted t9


double the number from any, other cause.


In the'


~a.t &Sates the mortality from consumption, take from Dr. Bizzell'i
S(MidiakJ Association of Alabama), is as follows: In Maine, 1 to every
Math fromaU o5ausee, or 1 to every 315 of population ; New Hampshire,
5, 1 death to 334 of population.; District of Colombia, 1 to 4.6., or 1 to
;: ,dplation. The mortality from phthisis in the States of Vermont,
 Island, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsyl.
 f. ,q every State and Territory of the Union north of the 38th paral-
 I4 m 1 in 38.9 in Maine to 1 in 11.9 in Kansas; and in o-State north
 $ob in mortality fall so low as 1 in 12, save in thd Territory of-Wy ,
 qiy te 4atia ko are too scant to be worth much. In Minnesota it
 _l^^ from6rna oal caee; in California, 1 in 7.2; in Arisona itis nlot
 ^r-^SWS1*7-r" ~~~ i 1 .. A ^ *H f k


ini ei
' : 1


v Mexico, it l 1 to 2W ; cievaaa,t to
16; Louisiana, 1 in 10.3; Georgia, .1 it
in 14.2; Misisaippi, 1 in 18.2; South .
Ss8.6; Virginia,. itS t; .
'|JC *fth f86 nf i *ft 'f. Rimimuifr^
 ^iint~ttt*tBfti .op* jti' nsiji^


4,i
 rJ


 4.l
AtW


isely