particles coughed up and sneezed out by
consumptives, and by many who do not know that they have
consumption, are full of living germs too small to be seen.
THESE GERMS ARE THE CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION.

DON'T SPIT on the sidewalks; it spreads disease, and it is
against the law.

DON'T SPIT on the floors of your rooms or hallways.

DON'T SPIT on the floors of your shop.

WHEN YOU SPIT, spit in the gutters or into a spittoon.

Have your own spittoons half full of water, and clean them out
at least once a day with hot water.

DON'T cough without holding your handkerchief or your hand over
your mouth.

DON'T live in rooms where there is no fresh air.

DON'T work in rooms where there is no fresh air.

DON'T sleep in rooms where there is no fresh air.

Keep at least one window open in your bedroom day and night.

Fresh air helps to kill the consumption germ.

Fresh air helps to keep you strong and healthy.

DON'T eat with soiled hands; wash them first.

DON'T NEGLECT A COLD or a cough.

To be sure, the precept of "Don't spit," as applied in cities, has other
reasons for enactment than to prevent tuberculosis. Spitting is a filthy
habit, and its practice should be decried on the score of cleanliness
whether on the streets or in any public place, so that the signs now
seen in street cars and railroad trains, in halls and office buildings,
are intended not altogether for consumptive patients, but also for those
who need laws to force them to observe ordinary rules of cleanliness and
decency. It is, however, the main step towards doing away with
consumption, and the faithful observance of the injunction ought to be
insisted upon quite as much in the individual home as in a city street
or public building. Case after case has been cited of instances where
one consumptive patient in a family has spread the disease through the
household, and, at intervals of a year or so, one after another of the
family has succumbed to the attacks of the consumptive germ, when by
proper precautions and suitable care of the sputum of the first sick
person, the other deaths might have been prevented.

_Individual resistance to tuberculosis._

There is a remarkable difference in the ability of individuals to
withstand the attacks of this disease, and it will be found always that
the first to succumb are those whose vitality has been in