DR. J. G. HOPKINS, of Thomasville, Ga., considers consumption contagious, and thinks that "consumptives should be forced to provide for the destruction of sputa. Whenever situated so as not to expectorate directly into a germicide or the fire, they should use some means of conveying the sputa to the germicide or the flames. If handkerchiefs or clothes are used, they should not be sent to the laundry, as human happiness and life are jeopardized through the probability of inoculation through abrasions upon the hands. These bacilli should never be allowed to dry up and impregnate the air, as is now done, through ignorance of possible result. Numerous experiments by leading medical authorities have proved beyond doubt that consumption is an inoculable disease, and so rapidly is the throng of converts growing that resorts now soliciting the patronage of the consumptive will at some day not far distant be quarantining against him."