It would probably cost less to build and maintain special wards in connection with hospitals already existing than to erect and support an entirely new institution. The greatest objection to special wards is that the coughing of the consumptives is disturbing to the other patients, but if the ward is sufficiently isolated (a separate building, if the hospital is planned on the cottage system) this objection would not apply. Furthermore, these wards would offer good teaching centres, where both doctors and nurses could learn more about pulmonary tuberculosis than the average hospital teaches to-day. In attempting to secure ground for the erection of a tuberculosis hospital, there is usually great opposition from laymen. They are not only afraid of tuberculosis, but they fear the depreciation of property which may arise in the vicinity of such an institution. Considerable education is required to calm them to a realization that the consumptive sheltered and cared for is less dangerous than the consumptive at large and unrecognized. When it comes to a special ward in connection with a city hospital, we may again encounter great opposition, really from the same reason, though the objections expressed are expense of such a ward, the lack of nursing facilities, that the room is needed for acute diseases, and so on. All of which is a grave commentary, from the people who best understand it, upon the infectious nature of this disease. Yet the medical profession tells us with apparent sincerity that “the careful consumptive is not a menace.” If this be true, where can he be more careful and less of a menace than in a place specially provided for him? The truth of the matter is, there is not, nor can there be, a _careful enough_ consumptive. The very nature of the disease precludes such a possibility, however much we educate him, or however earnestly he himself may try to co-operate to that end. And for the vast majority of patients, from whom we can obtain but little or only spasmodic co-operation, there is even less to be said. There is one simple method of determining whether or not a patient is careful—it consists in asking the question: Under these circumstances, would I, myself, feel safe? Would I be satisfied as to the safety of my nearest and dearest friend?