Discharged cases, 204–205, 207, 209; see also _Arrested cases_ Disinfectants, 43–44, 133, 173 _note_ Disinfection, by boiling, 131–132, 177, 178; by burning, 175, 178, 179, 183; by cleaning, 138, 172; by fumigation, 170–173, 176, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183; by painting and papering, 179; by steam sterilization, 175–177; effects of, on materials, 176 _note_ Dispensaries, general, 107; tuberculosis, consideration for patients at, 189–190; equipment of, 186–188; establishment of, 105, 185; hours, 188–189, 196; importance of, 286; necessity for, 105, 184–185; nurses’ work in, 194–195, 197–199; obtaining patients from, 67–68; physicians’ work in, 191–194; reports made to, by nurse, 202; taking patients to, 159; see also _Baltimore_, _Diagnosis_, _Nurse_ Districts, 35–36, 39 _note_ Duplication of work, 33–34 E Education unsuccessful as preventive measure, 2–3 Examination of patients, nurses, etc., see _Diagnosis_, _Dispensary_, _Families_, _Health Department_, _Nurse_, _Patients_, _Physician_, _Sputum_ Expenses of nurse, 24–26 Eye test, 111 F Factories, spreading of tuberculosis in, 266–267, 271 _note_; supervision of patients in, 267; see also _Patients, occupations of_ Families of patients, co-operation with nurse, 127, 174; examination of, 157–158; hygiene of, 155; infection of, 68–69, 97; relations with nurse, 152; recreations of, 155–156; respect for customs of, 181–182; see also under _Children_ and _Nurse_ Food, importance to patient of proper, 147–150; see also under _Diet_, _Infection_, _Nurse, instruction by_ Formaldehyde, formula for, 173–174 _note_ Forms, see _Charts_, _Records_, _Reports_ Fumigation, see under _Baltimore_, _Disinfection_ H Hamman, Doctor Louis, quoted, 111 Health Department, badges, 31–32; co-operation with institutions, 205–207; dispensaries, 185; examination of sputum by, 187; laws in regard to tuberculosis, 76–77, 112; notifying employers of tuberculosis patients, 269; physicians of, 89; politics in, 275–278; registration of cases with, 112, of deaths, 171; reports from institutions to, 206; supervision of discharged patients through, 207; supplies provided by, 42; visiting physicians needed by, 184–185; see also under _Baltimore_, _Disinfection_ Heat, artificial, in outdoor treatment, 143, 147 Histories, see under _Patients_ Home, “breaking up the,” 161; care of advanced patients at, 225–227; conditions in patients’, 139, 148, 160, 163; entering patients’, 31, 118, 122; see _Infection_ Hospitals, for advanced cases, 207–208, 218–219; importance of, in tuberculosis, 223, 271, 286; opposition to building of tuberculosis hospitals, 219–221; sending patients to, 207–208; special wards for tuberculosis, 218–219