An Altruistic Profession. The Past Achievements of Medicine. The Ever-increasing Importance of Hospitals. Hospitals and Housing. The Continuing Mass of Preventible Disease. The Present Extent of Socialization of Medicine. Destitution and Sickness. Insurance and Sickness. The Needs of the Future. LECTURE IV THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF INSURANCE AGAINST SICKNESS 103-119 Criteria of Value of Insurance. British System of Insurance. Limitations and Evils of the “Medical Benefit.” Need for further State Treatment of Disease. Prevention of Poverty by the Application of Medical Science. State Medicine must be Preventive throughout. Conditions of an Efficient Medical Service. LECTURE V SOME PROBLEMS OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE OF THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE 120-143 The Incidental Gains from War. Its Sacrificial Work. The Comradeship of All Idealists. Women’s Work. The Restriction of Alcoholism. The Change from Empirical to Scientific Methods. The Still Uncontrollable Diseases. Influenza and Measles as Types. The Possibility of Modified Training of Nurses. The Need for a More Complete Program in Tuberculosis. The Possibilities of Control of Venereal Diseases. The More Complete Protection of Maternity and Childhood. The Abolition of Poverty Tests in Medical Assistance. Lack of Equality of Service, not Ignorance, the Chief Evil. The Continuing Value of Voluntary Workers. LECTURE VI THE INTER-RELATION OF VARIOUS SOCIAL EFFORTS 144-156 The Possibilities of Good Work under Present Economic Conditions. The Importance of Social Work to the Physician. The Constant Need for a Causal Outlook. Poverty and Disease. Causes of Intemperance. The Causation and Prevention of Venereal Diseases. Lop-sided Views as to Ignorance in Causation of Disease. LECTURE VII THE OBSTACLES TO AND IDEALS OF HEALTH PROGRESS 157-182 Degree of Progress Realized. Obstacle of Urban Life. Obstacle of Industrialism. Obstacle of Poverty. The Influence of the Malthusian Hypothesis. Obstacle of Ignorance. Obstacle of Defects of Character. IDEALS. Communal Action. Spread of Altruism. Supreme Importance of Mother and Child. LECTURE VIII SOME ASPECTS OF POVERTY 183-190 Disease a Chief Cause of Poverty. Diminution of Poverty apart from Increased Family Income. Poverty a Complex. Action Needed against Each Constituent Element of Poverty. LECTURE IX THE CAUSATION OF TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MEASURES FOR ITS CONTROL IN ENGLAND 191-239