Excerpt from The Action of the Health Department in Relation to Pulmonary Tuberculosis and the Scope and Purpose of the Measures Recently Adopted for Its Prevention: A Report of the Board of Health of the City of New York to Hon. William L. Strong, Mayor of the City of New YorkIt follows from what has been said that tuberculosis is a communicable disease, and is distinctly preventable. The means which are most certain to prevent its spread from one indi vidual to another are those of scrupulous cleanliness regarding the sputum. These means are largely within the control of the affected individual. It should be constantly kept in mind that it ts the sputum, and the sputum alone, which is commonly the important agent in its transmission.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.