=Linen, Household and Personal.= All linen, including clothing and bed linen that has been used by the patient, should be boiled before it is washed. There seems to be some prejudice against this previous boiling, as the family are apt to maintain that it makes it more difficult to get the linen clean afterward. The nurse should overcome their objections, and emphasize the necessity for the utmost caution in regard to this infective material. =Disinfectant and Other Supplies.= At a later visit, the disinfectant may be given, as well as the waterproof pockets and books of information. During the first visit, it is better to give only the most important of the supplies—the tin cup, fillers, and napkins—and to save the rest for another time. For on her first visit the nurse is a stranger—later, she becomes a friend. Therefore she will make better headway if on her first appearance she does not burden the family with too much instruction and too much detail. It is better to say too little than too much, better to leave something unsaid until the next time, rather than overwhelm those she visits with a mass of advice which they cannot assimilate. Her first visit has been made as the bearer of distressing news, no matter how gently and carefully it may have been broken, and the distress and confusion which often arise fill the minds of her hearers to the exclusion of nearly everything else. During her later visits, she will have ample opportunity to say all that should be said—and at each succeeding call she will find that much of what she said the time before has been forgotten, misapplied, or altogether ignored. Tuberculosis work means the constant and incessant repetition of the same thing, trying by every device imaginable to point the way, to make an impression, to obtain some slight degree of carefulness which may mean the protection of other people.