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military patients can be got hold of in an early stage and kept under treatment until really fit for work and until there is no danger of passing on the infection to others. (2.) An open-air sanatorium is no place for a man who is seriously ill or dying. A special ward should be provided in which they can die in comfort, and in order that the serious cases may,be kept from their own homes where they are sure to be sources of infection to others. Under present conditions a man on leaving the sanatorium usually has to return to his old job—for which he is probably unfit—or to starve. The quest for " a light open-air job " is hopeless—there are not such jobs ; and if there were they would not be given to known consumptives. Connected with the sanatorium should be a " working colony," where a patient can either carry on his old occupation or bo taught a new one under proper hygienic conditions and medical supervision, and be paid the market value of a)i die work lie is able to do. It is no use giving a consumptive 5 acres of land and telling him to make a living on it. Most of them know nothing and care, as little for farming, and none of them can do a full day's work on leaving the sanatorium. Workshops for bootmaking, printing, joinery, &c, are needed in addition to gardens, poultry-farms, &c.; and qualified instructors are needed in every branch. The " colony " should be near the sanatorium, in order that the workers may be under medical supervision, and so that they may be sent back for rest or further treatment if they should show signs of breaking down. These suggestions may seem to bo idealistic ; but they can be carried out, and are being carried out in other countries, notably at Papworth in England, and Hairmyres in Scotland. G. M. Scott, Medical Superintendent and Tuberculosis Officer. Te Waikato Sanatorium, Cambridge, 20th May, 1.921.

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