In these two instances, there was little danger of spreading the infection, since neither patient was in close contact with children, or other persons likely to contract the disease. The young boy suffered an early death, while the coloured woman suffered personal inconvenience and discomfort, due to lack of nursing, care, and attention. In neither case, however, was there danger to other people. Whenever other people are involved, it is less easy to stand by and do nothing, while waiting for that slow change in public sentiment which shall give one the right to interfere. Thus, a physician diagnosed a case as tuberculous, and asked the nurse to take charge of the patient, telling her that he had carefully examined all the other members of the family, and found them in apparently good condition. He added, however, that he had been dismissed as soon as he had told the family the disease from which the patient was suffering. For this reason, he feared the nurse would find difficulty in entering the home. His fears were only too well grounded. The family had straightway called in another doctor, who calmed their anxiety by denying the previous diagnosis. He also advised them to turn away the nurse, which they did. The patient lived some eight months after this, during which time she was given no supplies, no instructions of any sort, and the family were kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness. When she died, the nurse as agent of the Health Department went to the house to arrange for the fumigation. The front door was opened by a young girl obviously tuberculous—the nurse was struck with her appearance; further search revealed still another member of the household who presented suggestive symptoms. In their distress, the family turned to the nurse and asked for advice and assistance, and she at once referred them to the physician who had diagnosed the original patient, eight months ago. The family obediently presented themselves to him, and he found that three more members had become infected. Since they were all in the early stages, it is probable that they had become infected during the last few months of the patient’s life—during which time not one precautionary measure had been observed. The day will surely come when the possibility of treating tuberculosis lightly, at the option of the attending physician, will not be allowed. Public sentiment will finally insist upon full municipal control, which will do away with such malpractice and sacrifice of human life. =A Waiting Policy.= As matters stand to-day, we can do nothing but accept the situation as we find it, and do the best that circumstances will permit. Which brings us to the question of the hour—What is to be done if the physician refuses to let the nurse visit his patient? Is she to accept his dismissal and turn away, or is she to continue her visits in spite of his objections, on the ground that the patient is hers as well as his?