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PROGRESS.
T h e coming of the Chancellor's scheme, as portrayed in the National Insurance Bill, for providing medical assistance for necessitous tuberculous cases, has aroused widespread interest in the subject of tuberculosis generally, stimulated serious study of anti-tuberculosis measures, and aroused discussion concerning w a y s and means w h e r e b y provision may be made for the adequate treatment of consumptives and other tuberculous subjects. In recent conferences and gatherings of medical men, sanitarians, and other leaders of thought and action, the problems relating to tuberculosis have occupied prominent places. All this is indicative of real progress. Dr. Matthew H a y , M.O.H., Aberdeen, has issued a special report on the prevalence of tuberculosis in his northern city. 1 I t is full of information, and should be in the hands of all medical officers of health. As a model for the local study of tuberculosis it deserves careful study. If arrangements could be made for a similar investigation to be taken in alI our cities, invaluable data would be obtained which would indicate more clearly the safest paths along which advance might be made. Much discussion has recently taken place regarding the relative merits of sanatoria, tuberculosis dispensaries, and so-called tuberculin dispensaries. Dr. A. Mearns Fraser's description of the Tuberculin Dispensary at P o r t s m o u t h is timely, and provides particulars of the treatment by tuberculin which is there afforded. 2 It is estimated that the complete cost will be ~ 6 o o per annum. Dr, H o p e ' s annual reports on the health of the City of Liverpool are always full of matters of far-reaching importance. T h e recently issued volume contains a series of excellent illustrations of life and work at the Fazakerley Hospital for Consumptives. 3 T h e last report of Glenafton Sanatorium at N e w C u m n o c k is a valuable record of good work which Dr. E d w a r d E. Prest is carrying out for the P u l m o n a r y Phthisis Board of the Ayrshire Sanatorium. ~ Illustrations of the buildings are given. " T h e Twelfth Annual Report of th6 Society for the Prevention and Cure of Consumption in the County of D u r h a m " has recently been issued, and contains pictures of the Stanhope and W o l s i n g h a m Sanatoria, the Medical Superintendents of which are Dr. John Gray and Dr. E. G. D. Menzies( 5 1 :'Notes on Tuberculosis in Aberdeen." By Matthew Hay, M.D., LL.D., Medical Officer of Health for the City of Aberdeen. Reprint from the " Annual Report on the Health of the City for 19o9." Aberdeen : Public Health Department. 19II. 2 ,, Report on Sanatorium and Tuberculin Treatment, together with a Description of the Portsmouth Municipal Tuberculin Dispensary. " By A. Mearns Fraser, M.D., Medical Officer of Health. Pp. 31. Portsmouth: W. H. Barrett, Ltd., xI4, High Street. 1911. Price is. net. " 8 ,, Report of the Health of the City of Liverpool during i91o." By E. W. Hope, M.D., D.Sc., Medical Officer of Health. Pp. 242. With plates and plans. Liverpool: C. Turling and Co., Ltd., 53, Victoria Street. 19:I. "Third Annual Report of the Ayrshire Sanatorium under the Public Health Authorities Combination." By Edward E. Prest, M.A., M.D., B.C., Medical Superintendent. Pp. 26. With plans and illustrations. Ayr: Advertiser Office. I91I'" The Society for the Prevention and Cure of Consumption in the County of Durham : TheTwelfth Annual Report." PP. 44. With illustrations. Sunderland : R. Youll, 28, Northumberland Street. I911.
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329
PROGRESS.
T h e coming of the Chancellor's scheme, as portrayed in the National Insurance Bill, for providing medical assistance for necessitous tuberculous cases, has aroused widespread interest in the subject of tuberculosis generally, stimulated serious study of anti-tuberculosis measures, and aroused discussion concerning w a y s and means w h e r e b y provision may be made for the adequate treatment of consumptives and other tuberculous subjects. In recent conferences and gatherings of medical men, sanitarians, and other leaders of thought and action, the problems relating to tuberculosis have occupied prominent places. All this is indicative of real progress. Dr. Matthew H a y , M.O.H., Aberdeen, has issued a special report on the prevalence of tuberculosis in his northern city. 1 I t is full of information, and should be in the hands of all medical officers of health. As a model for the local study of tuberculosis it deserves careful study. If arrangements could be made for a similar investigation to be taken in alI our cities, invaluable data would be obtained which would indicate more clearly the safest paths along which advance might be made. Much discussion has recently taken place regarding the relative merits of sanatoria, tuberculosis dispensaries, and so-called tuberculin dispensaries. Dr. A. Mearns Fraser's description of the Tuberculin Dispensary at P o r t s m o u t h is timely, and provides particulars of the treatment by tuberculin which is there afforded. 2 It is estimated that the complete cost will be ~ 6 o o per annum. Dr, H o p e ' s annual reports on the health of the City of Liverpool are always full of matters of far-reaching importance. T h e recently issued volume contains a series of excellent illustrations of life and work at the Fazakerley Hospital for Consumptives. 3 T h e last report of Glenafton Sanatorium at N e w C u m n o c k is a valuable record of good work which Dr. E d w a r d E. Prest is carrying out for the P u l m o n a r y Phthisis Board of the Ayrshire Sanatorium. ~ Illustrations of the buildings are given. " T h e Twelfth Annual Report of th6 Society for the Prevention and Cure of Consumption in the County of D u r h a m " has recently been issued, and contains pictures of the Stanhope and W o l s i n g h a m Sanatoria, the Medical Superintendents of which are Dr. John Gray and Dr. E. G. D. Menzies( 5 1 :'Notes on Tuberculosis in Aberdeen." By Matthew Hay, M.D., LL.D., Medical Officer of Health for the City of Aberdeen. Reprint from the " Annual Report on the Health of the City for 19o9." Aberdeen : Public Health Department. 19II. 2 ,, Report on Sanatorium and Tuberculin Treatment, together with a Description of the Portsmouth Municipal Tuberculin Dispensary. " By A. Mearns Fraser, M.D., Medical Officer of Health. Pp. 31. Portsmouth: W. H. Barrett, Ltd., xI4, High Street. 1911. Price is. net. " 8 ,, Report of the Health of the City of Liverpool during i91o." By E. W. Hope, M.D., D.Sc., Medical Officer of Health. Pp. 242. With plates and plans. Liverpool: C. Turling and Co., Ltd., 53, Victoria Street. 19:I. "Third Annual Report of the Ayrshire Sanatorium under the Public Health Authorities Combination." By Edward E. Prest, M.A., M.D., B.C., Medical Superintendent. Pp. 26. With plans and illustrations. Ayr: Advertiser Office. I91I'" The Society for the Prevention and Cure of Consumption in the County of Durham : TheTwelfth Annual Report." PP. 44. With illustrations. Sunderland : R. Youll, 28, Northumberland Street. I911.