Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical Association. (1914) (14577757220)

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Title: Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical Association.
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: American Climatological and Clinical Association
Subjects: Climate Medicine
Publisher: (Philadelphia) American Climatological and Clinical Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)



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is awonder the death rate among them is not greater than it is.1 It seems very strange, but it is a fact, that about seventy yearsago a proposition was made to use the Mammoth Cave in Ken-tucky as a winter resort for invalids. Sixteen consumptives weresent there to gain the reputed benefit from the equable temperatureand asserted purity of the air in that cavern. Five of these patientsdied and the others were injured as a result of the darkness anddampness combined. That such an irrational and cruel experimentshould have been tried seems incomprehensible at the present day.2 1 The death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis for Virginia during the yearending June 30, 1913, was for whites 98.4, and for colored 256 per 100,000.The state rate was estimated at 148. 2 See Croghan: The Mammoth Cave as a Winter Resort for Invalids (Bos-ton Medical and Surgical Journal, 1843, Vol. 28, p. 188). Daniel Drake, M. D.: Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Louis-ville, Kentucky, 1843, Vol. 7, p. 78.
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LAWN CUTTING. GRADUATED LABOR IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. SANATORIUM OF THEBROMPTON HOSPITAL, FRIMLEY, ENGLAND