459 Shoreditcb, and West Ham, which could be used for such a purpose. It is unfortunate that so eminently practical a proposal has not received the local support necessary to put it on foot, for the building might be used also as a tuberculosis dispensary. A combination of the early notification of phthisis, with in suitable cases its immediate treatment, together with good hygienic sleeping accommodation, each patient under his own medical adviser, seems a promising method of capturing and

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... ing with incipient phthisis amongst men in full and active employment, whom the hospitals and consumption sanatoriums do not reach.