Campaign against Tuberculosis.— This is one of the most important public health issues of the day, and through it we expect the eradi cation of the disease. During the last 40 years the death rate of tuberculosis has fallen 50 per cent, due, at least, partly to the public health efforts against it. The prospect is sufficiently bright that every State, municipality and indi vidual should be interested. Every municipality should have hospitals for early and advanced cases, dispensaries for the treatment of the poor, an anti-tuberculosis society for the edu cation of the public and open-air schools for tuberculous children. Anti-spitting laws should be made and enforced. Tuberculosis should be on the list of notifiable diseases. Tuberculosis in cattle should be under Administrative control. The individual .can aid by voluntary work in connection with a hospital or dispensary, by membership in the anti-tuberculosis society or by donation of funds for the work Bibliography.— For scientific treatment of the subject, the following writings may be con sulted: Laennec,
of the Roentgenological Examination of the Chest' (in American Review of Tuberculosis, November 1918) ; Walsh,
In general it may be stated that the more the patient learns about tuberculosis the more he will understand the reasons for the direc tions of the physician and the more likely he is to carry them out. Every patient who can afford it, therefore, should join the National Tuberculosis Association (381 Fourth avenue, New York City), in order to receive the litera ture accompanying membership. In addition the following popular works are recommended: Flick, 'Crusade against Tuberculosis. Consump tion a Curable and Preventable Disease. What a Layman should Know about it) (1903); Knopf, 'Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Its Modern Prophylaxis and the Treatment in Special In stitutions and at Home' (1899) ; Brown,