It need not, of course, be pointed out that the problem is no mere casual contingency, to be got rid of by forgetting it. On the contrary, it is a problem which neglect can only intensify and complicate, and the longer the campaign against' the white peril" is delayed the greater will be the difficulties to be overcome, and the greater the cost to the community.
Cases of tuberculosis have been discovered among families of ten and eleven living in semi-foreign and Chinese houses, approached through deplorable alleyways, the denizens of which, if they think about the matter at all, probably regard as a nuisance the visits of an officer from the Health Office on mission of cleanliness.
Tt may be argued that questions of poverty and of _over-crowded What Dr. Stanley said in his report on thio subject last year applies in (every detail to present day and insanitary dwellings have no place, in discussion se to the establishment of a Dospital, these be-
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