The Mortality From Consumption

Within the past year the civilized world lias been shocked and saddened by tho knowledge of thegreat devastation wrought by the cholera in Spain; and every precaution, in the way of sanitary measures and quarantinD reaulations that, modern science could suggest, was taken to prevent its spreading into other countries. The public scanned the columns of thedaily press, eager for information with regard to the ad vanee of this fearful disease, and read with bated breath as they learned that it numbered its victims by the tens of thousands. If it was a matter of such deep and universal concern that in Spain 101,000 souls gave up their lives to this feil destróyer, should it not also be a matter of some interest to our own people that, within the borders of the United States, over 91,500 persons die each year of pulmonary tonsumption?- that twelve out of every hundred deaths are caused by a disease which though slow in progrtss, Is as sure in its results as cholera itself? Should it ever transpire that some means of prevention should be found, by means of which people would be rendered proof against the disease, or at least could be cured when at once it had set its sealupon them, would it not be oneof thegreatestboons vouchsafed to man sincethe introduction of vaccination? Inventive persons have f rom time to time thought that they had secured a sure cure, if not an unfailing prophylactic; and, at the present time, sinco the discoveries of Koch, all sorts of parasiticides are being used to kill the germ of the disease. The unfortunate bacillus is now being hunted down with pneumatic chambers, deep inhalations, and local applications introduced by means of the hypódermic synnge, with the results that ave, to say tne least, uncertain. But, af ter all the years of research devoted to the subject, and out of all the methods of prevention and cure i that have been suggested.the one that ■ has given the best results, and is now : being universally adopted, ischanpo (-: ! climate.- From "Colorado asa Win ter Sanitarium," by Dr. S. A. Fisk i: Popular Science Monthly for March.