. Tuberculosis in Massachusetts : prepared by the Massachusetts State Committee for the International Congress on Tuberculosis, held in Washington, D. C., September 21 to October 12, 1908. come voluntarily, only a small percentage ofcases is ever discovered. A considerable portion of the time ofour nurses is spent in following up delinquents and in bringing in-dividuals to the clinic for examination. Besides the visiting physician, there are nine nurses on duty atthe dispensary, four of whom are in attendance at the Out-PatientDepartment on clinic morning. The routine work of history tak-ing,


. Tuberculosis in Massachusetts : prepared by the Massachusetts State Committee for the International Congress on Tuberculosis, held in Washington, D. C., September 21 to October 12, 1908. come voluntarily, only a small percentage ofcases is ever discovered. A considerable portion of the time ofour nurses is spent in following up delinquents and in bringing in-dividuals to the clinic for examination. Besides the visiting physician, there are nine nurses on duty atthe dispensary, four of whom are in attendance at the Out-PatientDepartment on clinic morning. The routine work of history tak-ing, etc., is done by these nurses. Besides her duties at the clinic,each of the nurses is assigned a definite section of the city, andunder the direction of a Superintendent of Nurses she carries outthe line of work most necessary. Nothing has been so gratifyingand encouraging to us as the success which these nurses have at-tained in their work, and we regard them more and more as theall-important agents in the work. In spite of every provision for suitable institution treatmentand the exercise of every possible influence, the majority of con- CM^lViU* Wfe£fv .j^k^ ?try CL^vancuL i. >WU~4


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