The public cannot afford to allow patients in an advanced stage of the disease to be at large, and many of the patients cannot afford to remain in hospital while their families run the risk of starvation. Assistance in some form, publicly or privately organized, thus—becomes essential. The establishment of a hospital is the first and most practical means of dealing with the problem, and it cannot be too ely urged that the Council's scheme ought to receive full support.
A Scheme Founded on Urgent Need.
It might have been expected that the observations on tuberculosis made by Dr. Stanley in his last annual report would have been a decisive factor in determining ceptance of the Council's scheme. In seeking for an explanation ae to why the scheme was rejected, one can only presume that the report interested only a limited number of people, or that its importance was not fully realized, although, that thie should have been so in regard to "the greatest health problem of the day in all countries," is hard to believe.
The matter is just as urgent an it was twelve monthe ago when the report appeared. Conditions have case for the establishment of hospital loses nothing in force through lapse of time.
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