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for improved housing, limitation of spitting habit, and the other measures of hygienic progress advocated by

Dr. Scott because I see reason to think that even the

adults may prove to be less resistant than the adult

populations of European communities, A great deal can

be done by educational propaganda through Chinese medical men and through the good offices of the Y.L. C. A.

and Y., C, A., and I am very much impressed with the value of Dr. Scott's suggestion that a Tuberculosis Dispensary

he organized as a centre for enlightenment on the domestic

hygiene of tuberculosis as well as for treatment and

observation of cases. It is the general experience in

Europe that a Tuberculosis Dispensary, to be fully effective,

should form part of a more comprehensive sche.ne in which the

provision of sanatorium treatment for favourable cases and

an isolation hospital for the more advanced cases should

form a part. I hesitate to suggest that measures found

to suit European populations are necessarily aplicable

under the conditions obtaining in Hong Kong but wish to

emphasize the great value of adequate accommodation anu

tne prospect of cure or amelioration of the disease in

winning the confidence of those suffering from tuberculosla

and the imperative necessity of isolation of advanced caves

under conditions that eliminate the danger of their infect-

ing others.

I consider that Dr. Scott is to be congratulated on

having carried out a comprehensive investigation which throWB

light not only on the lines of progress to be adopted loally

but upon some of the fundamental problems of tuberculosis in

general.