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 @ hospital is the first and most practical means of dealing with the problem, and it cannot be too strongly urged that 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 acceptance of the Councils scheme In secking for an explanation a6 to why the scheme was rejected, one can only presume that the report interested only " limited number of ple, or that its importance was not fully realized, although, that, this should have been so in regard to "the greatest health problem of the day in all countries," ie hard to believe.
The matter just as urgent as it was twelve monthe ago when the report appeared. Conditions have in no way changed for the better, and Dr. Stanley's statement of the case for the establishment of a hospital loses nothing in force through lapse of time.
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