=Food.= There are other home occupations about whose danger to the public there can be little doubt. Many patients keep small grocery stores, confectionery shops, and lunch rooms, and prepare and handle foodstuffs of all kinds. Again we must discriminate. The consumptive who sells tinned foods (which he does not handle), or meat, fish, or vegetables which are cooked before they are eaten, is not necessarily spreading disease among his customers. On the other hand, he who sells and handles milk, cream, ice-cream, bread, cake, candy, and so forth, is a decided danger to all who buy his wares. The alimentary tract is one of the main portals of entry for the tubercle bacilli, and every precaution must be taken to prevent the contamination of food. The patrons of these little shops are the people of the neighbourhood, who are regular customers, and their health is endangered not by occasional but by repeated doses of germ-laden food. =Milk and Cream.= There is an ordinance in Baltimore forbidding the sale of milk and cream in a house where there is an infectious disease; this includes tuberculosis. In order to sell milk, it is first necessary to obtain a permit from the Health Department, but this permit may be revoked whenever occasion demands. If the nurse finds that one of her patients is selling milk (as is often done in connection with a small grocery business), she reports this fact to the Health Department. It may be that the patient himself never comes near the shop, and is out at work or away all day. This sometimes happens, but not often. Usually he waits upon the customers himself, selling milk in penny amounts, with a dirty finger inside the measuring cup. Or he may be too ill to attend the shop, but sits or lies in an adjoining room, so that his wife may wait upon him and upon the customers alternately. Under such conditions, the danger may be almost as great as if he himself handled the milk, since she does not take time for proper cleanliness. To revoke a permit usually occasions considerable hardship, and the reduction of an already pitiful income. Yet summary measures must be taken unless the milk is sold without risk to the purchasers. The patient should be removed to a hospital, and the family must choose between letting him go and giving up the permit. When there are no hospital facilities and the permit must be withdrawn, leaving the family under financial stress, the nurse should ask assistance of the Federated Charities. This assistance, however, should never be offered as an alternative to removing the patient to a hospital.