The Tuberculosis Officer and His Work

The tuberculosis officer is a comparative novelty. His. immediate action and eventual position in medicine are as yet uncertain, and if the following description of him is somewhat diagrammatic, the writer pleads these circumstances as his excuse. Two years' experience in city and county has indicated that the value of the tuberculosis officer's work will be in proportion to the extent to which he fits into his special place on the field. He resembles the scrum half-back, and has to cooperate with nearly everybody in existence, if he is to be a permanent success. This alone makes it impossible to lay down any rigid boundaries, or even to give a fixed form to his actual