The saving phase of the situation is this: while the patient who keeps a bakeshop and sells his wares day after day to practically the same customers, fulfils the condition that repeated implantations are necessary to contract the disease; on the other hand, the cakes distributed by a factory cover a wider range of territory—thus, while many more people get doses of germs, the doses themselves are probably too small to be harmful. This also may be said for other kinds of foodstuffs, handled in factories by tuberculous persons; these articles are distributed so widely that no individual consumer is really endangered. In this way, the risk is minimized. But still we must remember that every factory in the country has its tuberculous employees, with their output of bacilli to be reckoned with. The consumer is thus threatened on every side. No wise community should tolerate such chances of infection. =Cooks.= There is considerably more danger from the tuberculous cook employed in a private family. Under such conditions the household is steadily infected day by day, not through personal contact, but by small, repeated doses of bacilli received into the alimentary tract. If typhoid fever permitted a patient to work—if it were a chronic instead of an acute disease—we should consider it a highly dangerous expedient to permit such a patient to handle food in any way, and we should be exceedingly wary of restaurants which employed typhoids as cooks or waiters. This argument applies with equal force to tuberculosis. In typhoid, there is but one portal of entry—the digestive tract. In tuberculosis there are two—the respiratory as well as the alimentary—and they are equally important. =Personal Contact in the Factory.= While the patient in the factory is a menace, he is less dangerous than the patient in his home. A man well enough to work is seldom in the most advanced and infectious stages of tuberculosis. Moreover, his fellow-workers, unlike the members of his household, are not in constant but rather in casual and intermittent contact with him. These two conditions tend to diminish the risk to his associates; still, it always exists. The consumptive does not seek employment from a malicious desire to spread tuberculosis—he seeks it because of economic conditions compelling him to work until he falls in harness. We must recognize this driving necessity, but at the same time we must protect the workers who perforce surround him. They too are impelled by the same need, and their rights equal his.