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Medical research laboratories established by municipalities are 

 doing much to further a knowledge of tuberculosis, and the money 

 spent in their maintenance is well spent — witness the valuable work 

 of the Research Laboratory of the Department of Health of the City 

 of New York/ 



In Germany, Great Britain and elsewhere it has been found 

 possible to furnish meals to school children who were ordinarily 

 underfed. Generally there has been an agreement between the 

 School Board and some philanthropic organization. In other 

 instances the entire expense has been paid out of school funds. Tuber- 

 cular children have been aided to recovery and the non-tubercular 

 have been strengthened to resist possible infection. Valuable evi- 

 dence and suggestions are given by various witnesses summoned by 

 a committee which reported to the British Parliament a few years 

 ago upon the subject of physical deterioration." 



Segregation of Consumptives. — From time to time various pro- 

 posals have been made concerning the enforced segregation of con- 

 sumptives from the rest of the community. Such a plan seems to 

 the writer both unnecessary and unwise. 



The enforced removal of persons suffering from tuberculosis may 

 often result in breaking up a home. In poor families if the father, 

 for example, is obliged to go away to some distant sanatorium and 

 thus is unable to furnish any support, or if the mother is removed 

 and her care lost to the children, most disastrous results may follow 

 so far as the children are concerned. If, however, only a tem- 

 porary residence were required in a sanatorium, the family might be 

 kept together through the adoption of some makeshift for a few weeks 

 or months. Certainly, wherever possible, the home should be main- 

 tained. Charity organizations as well as the authorities should work 

 toward this end. Even the best orphan asylum is not as good a 

 place to bring up a child as the average home. 



' This institution has recently published a volume on "The Relative Importance of Bovine and Human 

 Types of Tubercle Bacilli in Different Forms of Human Tuberculosis," by William H. Park and Charles Krum- 

 wiede, Jr. — Collected Studies from the Research Laboratory, Department of Health, City of New York, Vol. V, 

 pp. 1-164, IQIO. 



" Report of the Inter-departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration (especially pp. 70-72) . London, 1904. 



