The Tuberculosis Dispensary—Equipment—Medicines—Hours—Consideration of Patients—Function of the Dispensary—The Physician’s Service—The Physician’s Qualifications—The Physician and the Patient—Duties of the Nurse—Tuberculin Classes—The Nurse in Home and Dispensary—The Nurse as an Asset to the Community. =The Tuberculosis Dispensary.= No community can make definite progress against tuberculosis until it establishes a place where suspicious patients may be sent for examination and diagnosis. Unless this disease be promptly and definitely recognized, it is impossible to give advice, or take authoritative action concerning the treatment of the patient and his family. If in connection with the dispensary there was also a corps of municipal physicians, who could visit the patients in their homes, and examine all suspects called to their attention, diagnoses could be obtained even more promptly. As it is now, considerable interval often elapses between the time when the patient is advised to go to a dispensary and the time when he follows this advice. The existence of a corps of visiting physicians would prevent such delays. The patient would be allowed a reasonable time in which to present himself, at the expiration of which period he would be sought out by the officer of the municipality. This prompt recognition of tuberculosis would save the community from an enormous amount of exposure. The time may yet come when Departments of Health will see the wisdom of such measures. Until that time, the special dispensary represents the only means of obtaining a diagnosis; it is the only place where patients may freely be sent, and where an expert and frank opinion may be had. Such a dispensary may be established in connection with the general dispensary of a hospital, or by the local Health Department, or it may be supported by the same group of people or association which supports the special nurse. In Baltimore, we have had dispensaries of all three kinds, and the nurses have worked in connection with each one, on exactly the same terms. =Equipment.= The great tuberculosis dispensaries run in connection with the large hospitals and medical schools are usually very completely and elaborately equipped. They contain large waiting rooms, examining rooms, special rooms for the giving of tuberculin, for X-ray examinations, for throat examinations, for laboratory work, and so forth. All these are needed in teaching centres, where it is necessary to collect certain scientific data. But for the purpose of making an ordinary physical examination a simpler equipment will do equally well.