toes at night. It is furthermore their duty to vigorously
treat the disease until the parasites are no longer present in their
bodies, at which time they cease to be a menace to others.

Many children have malaria without showing symptoms, and, if allowed to
sleep without being properly covered with a net, are very apt to infect a
large number of malarial mosquitoes; the blood of children in malarial
localities should be examined from time to time, and if the parasites be
found, the children should be given the proper remedies until a cure is
effected.

Particular attention should also be directed to the fact that almost all
Negroes in malarial localities of the South harbor the parasites, though
very few of them show symptoms of their attacks. It is, therefore, very
important that they be treated properly, and their white neighbors should
see to it, for their own safety, that they do not sleep in houses
unprotected by nets.

If the precautions herein detailed were properly carried out, for even a
few months, malaria would practically cease to exist wherever this was
done, and would not recur unless individuals from other places suffering
from the disease were to come into the districts where the Anopheles
mosquito is present, and so give it to the gnats--to be by them
recommunicated to humanity.

TUBERCULOSIS.

Of all the enemies of mankind, tuberculosis, in its various forms, takes
the first rank. Of protean manifestations, occurring in almost every part
of the body and producing diseases of the brain, of the nerves, of the
bones, of the skin, and of all of the internal organs--pre-eminent is the
terrible malady we call consumption, which is tuberculosis of the lungs.
It has been estimated that one-seventh of all the people born into the
world die as a result of this malady in some one of its various forms,
and it is probable that one person out of every three dying between the
ages of fifteen and sixty years, succumb to this disease. As a result of
the labors of thousands of patient, self-sacrificing investigators--many
of the most distinguished of whom have died of this disease while
carrying on their work--the peculiarities of this affection are now
fairly well understood, and if we were to apply the knowledge which we
now possess in our attempts to free ourselves from its ravages, there is
no question but that within a comparatively short period of time the
disease would practically cease to exist.

_Char