Similarly, by preventive measures, we are controlling the other diseases.

Why not also tuberculosis?
(Statistics for greater New York, 1908; total number of deaths from all causes, 73,072.)] Why the Fear and Danger of Consumption have been Lessened.

Terrible and deadly as consumption is, we no longer go about in dread of it, as people did twenty-five years ago, before we knew what caused it; for we know now that it is preventable and that two-thirds of the cases can be cured after they develop.

The word consumption is no longer equivalent to a sentence of death.

The deaths from tuberculosis each year have diminished almost one-half in the last forty years, in nearly every civilized country in the world; and this decrease is still going on.
The methods which have brought about this splendid progress, and which will continue it, if we have the intelligence and the determination to stick to them, are:--First, the great improvements in food supply, housing, ventilation, drainage, and conditions of life in general, due to the progress of modern civilization and science, combined with a marked increase in wages in the great working two-thirds of the community.