American practitioner . and nurse visit the homefor a dual purpose. First, that the patients may be educated in theopen air treatment, and in the protection of others by the observanceof a few simple precautions. Incidentally, it is essential for the suc-cess of an antituberculosis movement in any country that the publicmind be educated to the knowledge that the ignorant consumptive isa source of danger at home and abroad, whereas the instructed con-sumptive is a danger to no one. Secondly, the medical officer ex-amines all those who have been in contact with the patient—this be-ing termed the
American practitioner . and nurse visit the homefor a dual purpose. First, that the patients may be educated in theopen air treatment, and in the protection of others by the observanceof a few simple precautions. Incidentally, it is essential for the suc-cess of an antituberculosis movement in any country that the publicmind be educated to the knowledge that the ignorant consumptive isa source of danger at home and abroad, whereas the instructed con-sumptive is a danger to no one. Secondly, the medical officer ex-amines all those who have been in contact with the patient—this be-ing termed the March Past of the Contacts. The result is that theearly cases are diagnosed and placed in the way of cure while theyare yet curable. Again the dispensary is the clearing house forthe other institutions in the scheme—the tuberculosis school, the OKI. N \l \u I II sanatorium, the farm colony, the hospital for advanced tlie public health authority and relief its relation to th being indicated in the following DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATION O] I III EDINBURGH - The double lines indicate frequent transference of patients. The dotted lines indicate less frequent transference of patients. RELAl ION NSARY [O OTHER INSTITUTK From the dispensary suitable cases I to sanatorium* cure, and thence a certain proportion proceed for more prolonftreatment to a farm colony, in order to ensure that an economicwell as a clinical cure- may be attained. I he childn ing the dispensary,are taught the value of fresh air and sunlight at tu-berculosis open air schools under the mi dispensary. s, where home ill and the danger of infection to oth< i no The American Practitioner i—tCJ w DO uu Q 85OQZ o -J CO u 2 CO 2 ujcu CO CO CO o JDUa:u CQDH m oi au t O 00 01 T oo ^t a ?* co NO tn -r N N t O 01 snooA3qnjL-uo $[ oof co l^ 01 m c\ t t in uoifvrussqo 1 o IN. m 00 f t^i-H CO 01 « in o « o io in w o i-i T NO w 1- 01 o A.)pu[\ if o\ 0» NO « i-t no in I- O 1- NO snojitj-uquj^ ^1 00 c,
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