Good food is an essential. Overfeeding is dangerous. The quality and quantity of food for the patient should be carefully studied. As to quantity the patient should eat enough to gradually gain in weight. As to the quality of food the following foods suggest themselves: milk, eggs or meat for two meals, plenty of vegetables, choosing between one that grows above the ground as lettuce, cabbage and one that grows beneath the ground. Raw vegetables well sterilized and if necessary seraped are valuable. Fruits are very beneficial and also such deserts that are easy to digest. In tuberculosis it is not a restricted diet that suggest itself so much as a well Londin, Mar. 9.
A 2,000-mile study tour of the United States-to investigate the New Deal is being organized by the En lish-Speaking Union, for politicians, journalists, economists, teachers and undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 45.
The group, which is to be under the leadership of Mr. Hubert Howard London representative of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will pay special attention to the activities of the Works Progress Administration,- housing projects, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the cleavage in organized labour and the Negro problem.
Opportunities will be given to dis: cuss current problems with many political, business, labour and other leaders, including critics, as well as supporters of the New Deal.
The tour, which will last 26 days from Southampton back to Southamp-ten, will give the part sixteen days in the United States, of which from one to four cays will be spent in each of the states of New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan, and the District of Columbia.
The group, which is to be restricted to a maximum of 24. is to sail from Southampton in the Aquitania a a a with a competent doctor in charge and a ce-operative y, these matters need not be discussed here From the above it becomes evident that only the better class of people will be able to have home treatment. This leaves the largest number of patients to be cared for some other way. Hospitalization is an essential in the fight against tuberculosis.
The Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association well aware of this necessity, operates two hospitals to give hospital care to such patients as cannot be isolated in the homes.
The Association, however, does not limit itself to this care, but has a programme of prevention of tuberculosis mapped out according to programme followed in other countries and solicits the public to back this important fight against tuberculosis its ce-operation.
The "Anti-Spitting Campaign" to be held from March 26 to April 1 is whole-heartedly endorsed by the Association balanced diet.
Let the patient have his own set of dishes and wash them with hot soapsuds. Keep the patient's "wash separate from the family wash until previously boiled or submitted to hot soapsuds. The patient's clothes should be of a nature that can readily be submitted to boiling The care of the sputum of the patient' is important. He should spit, but the sputum should be cared for with caution, Paper cups or bags can be used which are later on burned. Spittoons are not vised. They require too much handling by others.
Records of the patient's temperature, pulse.: respiration, food, stoss urine and any happening that affects the patient should be recorded. A little training will enable the attendant to do this systematically The s rest periods. the kind medicine and general
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