Immediately after securing the above appropriation, the State Department of Health began to establish dispensaries throughout the state, one or more in each county. The staff of each dispensary consists of a chief, who is also county medical inspector, and a corps of assistant physicians and visiting nurses. There is a supervising nurse with one assistant at Harrisburg, who oversee and inspect the work of the staff nurses. The number of nurses in the dispensaries throughout the state varies from a nurse shared by another organization or a practical nurse giving part time, to from four to seven nurses in one dispensary. There are now more than 115 State Department Tuberculosis Dispensaries in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia having three. An idea of the general plan of the work may be gained from a description given of the State Department Dispensary No. 21, located in Philadelphia, by Dr. Francine: "There are at present five nurses employed at Dispensary No. 21, two of whom give their whole time to following up the return cases from the State Sanatoria. As soon as the case is discharged from the sanatorium, that information, with other data regarding the condition on discharge, etc., is sent to us at once. At the end of a stated period, if that case has not been returned, the nurse looks it up, and gets it to come in. The nurses make out detailed reports on all cases discharged from the sanatoria, at periods of six months, whether our own patients or not. These will be and are valuable for statistical data. Practically all the data for reports as to subsequent results in cases discharged from the sanatoria, which have appeared in this country at least, have been made up from information gleaned by writing the discharged patient and having him fill out his own report. It does not tax the imagination unduly to conclude which is the more accurate, the answers to questioning by a trained worker (we have selected for this work the two nurses who have been with us longest) who in addition takes the temperature, pulse, etc., herself, and usually succeeds in getting the patient back to the dispensary for at least one re-examination; or such answers as a patient may see fit to make to a printed questionnaire.