Excerpt from The Sanitary Inspector, Vol. 10: February, 1897The saddest thing in connection with the terrible mortality from consumption is the thought it might not have been. It will not continue, only in a minor degree, after the education of the masses has proceeded far enough so that a strong public sentiment will demand that intelligent measures be taken in connection with every consumptive to prevent the infection of other persons.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.