The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-10

Patients take on flesh rapidly unless their digestive organs were hopelessly impaired in the first place. A young woman who looked more fit for ten- his or basketball than for the tent colony was pointed out by pr. Petit.
 That girl had about one chance in fifty when she came here in April" he said, and now we have to walk the flesh off of her. But her digestion was good, and that was her salvation"
 
 In the dining room no table linen is used, the napkins and dolies being pa- per. and these are destroyed after each meal. The dish washing department is especially well equipped, as every dish is carefully scalded after use. In this end every other particular great pre- caution is not only exercised but re- ligiously taught to all the patients For this reason there Is probably less danger of contracting tuberculosis in the tent colony than in any other place. The disposition of the sputum is a matter looked to with the great est care and the rules on the subject are absolute. Each patient is provid- ed with "sputum papers," about the size of a paper napkin, and they are obliged to use these always when they spit. The paper then Is rolled in n certain way and deposited in a paper bag, with which each >consumptiye is supplied Scattered over the grounds are receptacles to contain these small paper bags, and the receptacles arc emptied by an attendant at reg ular intervaIs the paper bags be- ing burned. While in their tents the patients are required to use the alproVed kind of paper-lined sputum cups, and these Things are collecetd and burned. as the paper bags.
 When the tent colony first was es- tablished the people of Ottawa looked upon the venture askance, on account of their visions of consumptives in large numbers frequenting the city and expectorating in public places. Following the strict observance of the rule as to the disposition of sputum, the public feeling toward the colony among the people of Ottawa has be- come friendly. In fact the example of caution set by the patients has been followed by many of the town people and the enforcement of the municipal "spitting" ordinance has become mat ter of the greatest ease.
 There are a lot of surprises that meet the visitor to the Ottawa tent colony. One of them is the little coughing that Is heard. I sat in the dining room during the supper hour One evening last WGek anu Hob 6O IuSll coughing was to be heard as one would hear ins any restaurant where half a hundred supposedly sound persons were eating. According to the men who are advanced in the treatment of tubercu- losis. the suppression of coughing by consumptives is largely a matter of ed- ucation. At Ottawa the patients are taught not to cough. They are told that much of their coughing is un- necessary. Where many consumptives are together they cough largely in sympathy. For instance, during one of pr. Petits recent lectures to the patients he talked on the subject Of coughing. saying:
 Since I have been talking to you there has been no coughing How ever, if one of you were to cough 1t IS certain that nearly every other one would do likewise"
 The lecture was continued along other lines. and suddenly a patient coughed. Almost instantly nearly ev- cry patient was coughing distressing ly. pr. Petit then called attention to the phenomena as Illustrating the statement he had made a few minutes before
 Another surprise is the general ap- pearaneeN among the patients of com paTative good health. It would pc quite easy for visitor 10 wander among the tents and lounge on the verandas. If he did not know that ne was among men and women whose very presence in the colony was the best evidence that they suffered from