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Being :torewarned, are we forearming ourselves ? Are we
preparing to use all human means ? Are we resorting to
prophylactic measures , whether municipal or individual ?
Not so. As in politics, so in sanitary precaution, we
go on never minding it, 110ur yesterdays are but as fools
to light the \'lay to dusty death,, \'le are carried onwards
day after day in a lazy and stupid indifference, until
suddenly disease and manifold death comes unexpectedly
and like a thunderclap uponus and then we hear a cry of
useless and unavailing lamentation.
Thus the stage was set for a grim and bitter drama in which
Hall played the leading role .
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