FORESTS AS SITES FOR SANATORIA 27 
scheme (12) devised by the authorities of Mid-Lanark for 
their water catchment area at Camps, in conjunction with 
the formation of a large permanent nursery at Hairmyres. 
This scheme will serve many useful purposes, some of which 
are novel. The Middle Ward of Lanark District Committee 
have established what is known as the Hairmyres Colony 
for the treatment of tuberculosis. Experience has shown 
that treatment in an ordinary sanatorium for a few months 
gives disappointing results in a large percentage of cases. 
The colony system provides along economic lines for an 
extension of treatment to patients who are liable to relapse 
on return to their former unhealthy environment. The 
Hairmyres Colony embraces an area of about 200 acres, 
and includes several working industries, with a competent 
head to give instruction in each department. The colony 
was founded to admit two classes of patients, namely, 
children and selected adult cases who have shown such 
improvement in other sanatoria that a further treatment of 
a special character is desirable. This includes special train- 
ing in work on the land, market gardening, the rearing of 
pigs and poultry, and the early stages of forestry. Children 
work in the Forest Nursery for two hours daily in suitable 
weather, and adult patients do a full day’s work. 
The practical training in forestry embraces all branches 
of nursery work, such as raising forest trees, shrubs, and 
ornamental plants in Hairmyres nursery, and felling and 
conversion of timber on the Hairmyres estate during the 
winter months. On certain parts of the estate, planting 
trees on peat and underplanting of old plantations are 
carried out, operations which are valuable from the point of 
view of training men in forestry. Lecture courses at Hair- 
myres are arranged in connection with the Forestry De- 
partment of the West of Scotland Agricultural College, 
Glasgow. When the scheme is in full working order, con- 
valescent tuberculous patients no longer requiring close 
medical supervision will be transferred from the Hairmyres 
Colony to the Camps area. Up to June 1918 only two 
have been sent. Both were notified cases of tuberculosis 
