Abstract
If fresh-air treatment is demanded, at all hazards, in tuberculous adults, it is three-fold more imperative in children, in whom are the issues of adult life and also of probable death in youth or early adult life when the infantile infection is not detected and removed. Successful treatment of a child saves a member to the family and an adult to the community. Unsuccessful treatment, if not attended by death in early life, only contributes to the rank and file of adults a morbid being to face with increased risks and frightful odds the perils of unfolding adolescence, or, if a female, of the functions of motherhood. But aside from this saving of life from the ravages of the white plague, the greater power of a redeemed and robust child-life in repelling or combating diseases incidental to subsequent years argues with equal force for vigorous and persistent use of the
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