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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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NO. I AIR AND TUBERCULOSIS—HINSDALE 5 their forests and have protected them by strictly enforcing intelligentlaws so that they may be forever preserved and improved. The his-tory of forestry in the United States and Canada has been that ofruthless, unrestrained, wholesale destruction of nearly all ourstanding pine, and heavier spruce. In recent years, however, we haveseen the establishment of Government reserves, State reserves, andState laws for their protection; the organization of the AmericanForestry Association, the American Forest Congress, the Societyfor the Preservation of the Adirondack Forest; the Schools of For-estry at Yale, Harvard University and Mont Alto, Penna. All theseremedial measures have come very late, but will undoubtedly exerta strong influence for good.1 Aside from the generally beneficial influence of forests, universallyrecognized by climatologists, these natural parks have proved themeans of restoring thousands of persons suffering from tuberculosisand di

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