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scheme (12) devised by the authorities of Mid-Lanark for 

 their water catchment area at Camps, in conjimction 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 w^ere notified cases of tuberculosis 



