The figures I have quoted indicate
how progressively the mortality is falling. Only, do not let us be
disappointed if this comparatively rapid fall is not steadily maintained
in the country at large. It is a long fight against a strong enemy,
and at the lowest estimate it will take several generations before
tuberculosis is placed at last, with leprosy and typhus, among the
vanquished diseases. Education, organization, cooperation--these are the
weapons of our warfare. Into details I need not enter. The work done by
the National Association under the strong guidance of its secretary, Mr.
Farrand, the pioneer studies of Trudeau and the optimism which he has
brought into the campaign, the splendid demonstration by the New York
Board of Health of what organization can do, have helped immensely in
this world-wide conflict.
SOME years ago, in an address at Edinburgh, I spoke of the triple gospel
which man has published--of his soul, of his goods, of his body. This
third gospel, the gospel of his body, which brings man into relation
with nature, has been a true evangelion, the glad tidings of the final
conquest of nature by which man has redeemed thousands of his fellow men
from sickness and from death.
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