Industrial Colonies and Village Settlements for the Consumptive

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Strona 98 - I fail, 5 the only evil is in my own disappointment. If, however, I can by any lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow ; if I can now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy...
Strona 2 - Then came the day of the sanatorium with its fresh air, good food, rest and absence of worry — a step in the right direction, but not the end of the journey.
Strona 73 - ... all this sad procession of broken lives, can never return to normal conditions without endangering his family and his fellowworkmen, without involving not only himself but others in disaster. Let communities be started in which our consumptive soldier can live in his own home, shielded from the fierce competition of the outside world, a selfrespecting worker, an economic asset. Let employment be found, the model factory erected, the hours of toil properly regulated, a fair wage paid. In such...
Strona 73 - An Imperial Obligation." (See appendix.) Industrial communities have developed rapidly in this country. Many of them have grown about a single industry for the sake of that industry, such as a steel mill, coal or mineral mine, etc. The converse proposition is the one I wish to offer — the development of industries around a community for the sake of that community, which is to be made up chiefly of arrested cases of tuberculosis among soldiers, sailors, and civilians. Those soldiers and sailors...
Strona 120 - Sinews, strong nerves, strong eyes are needful for action. I have none of these; and besides, I have a weakness ever present. It eats my life away. . . . Truly this is no fable. I want faith. " Je suis venu trop tard dans un monde trop vieux.
Strona 106 - The true colony consists of a sanatorium, in which all that is best in sanatorium treatment is carried out, but with the addition of an industrial section where the treatment may be prolonged and training in a suitable occupation begun.
Strona 24 - Apart from installing more power generation, there are two ways in which this can be done: one is to have the facility for using fuel oil on soaking pits.
Strona 123 - You wake every morning, see the gold upon the snow-peaks, become filled with courage, and bless God for your prolonged existence. The valleys are but a stride to you ; you cast your shoe over the hill-tops; your ears and your heart sing; in the words of an unverified quotation from the Scotch psalms, you feel yourself fit ' on the wings of all the winds' to
Strona 108 - This catastrophe we want to avoid, not only for the sake of the individual but also for the sake of the community — and the community daily becoming more conscious of the position is demanding that something shall be done.
Strona 44 - colony" consisted at that time of an old country house standing in its own ground of two acres. It had long been empty, the garden was unrecognisable, and other parts of the ground resembled a wilderness. On this site a few shelters were erected and the patients (early cases some with and some without tubercle bacilli in the sputum) installed. In the house resided a matron (a trained nurse) and a nurse, together with a cook. The number of shelters was gradually increased and the work of planning...

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