In Baltimore, the actual fumigation is not done by the nurses, but by the employees of the Fumigation Division of the Health Department. The nurse indicates the rooms, instructs the family, and makes all the preliminary arrangements, after which she reports the premises to the fumigator, who disinfects them next day. It would be well if this fumigation could be done by the nurses or by a special corps of nurses; this would probably ensure more intelligent and conscientious work than that which the average city employee bestows upon this important task. As a matter of routine, every death from pulmonary tuberculosis is reported to the Tuberculosis Division; the nurse in whose district this death has occurred then inspects the house and arranges for the fumigation. Four times out of five the patient is already known to us and already under supervision, which makes the duty easier than if he were unknown. In either case, however, the nurse visits the home and arranges all the details. In like manner, all patients who enter either hospital or sanatorium are reported to the Health Department, the institutions furnishing their names and addresses so that the fumigation may be attended to. When a patient changes his address and moves to other quarters, the nurse is the only one who knows of this change, hence it is her responsibility to report these houses and see that they are fumigated. To arrange for all these fumigations, whether after death or after removal, means that a large amount of time is spent upon this work of trying to rid the community of dangerous centres of infection.