he official center; _E_, home care; _K, L, M_, day camp and
hospitals for incipient and advanced cases]

A white-plague scrapbook containing news items, articles, and
photographs will prove an interesting aid to self-education or to
instruction of children, working girls' clubs, or mothers' meetings.
Everybody ought to enlist in this war, for the fight against
tuberculosis is a fight for cleanliness and for vitality, for a fair
chance against environmental conditions prejudicial to efficient
citizenship.

So sure is the result and so immediate the duty of every citizen that
Dr. Biggs wrote in 1907: _In no other direction can such large results
be achieved so certainly and at such relatively small cost. The time is
not far distant when those states and municipalities which have not
adopted a comprehensive plan for dealing with tuberculosis will be
regarded as almost criminally negligent in their administration of
sanitary affairs and inexcusably blind to their own best economic
interests._

FOOTNOTES:

[13] The best literature on tuberculosis is in current magazines and
reports of anti-tuberculosis crusaders. For a scientific, comprehensive
treatment, libraries and students should have _The Prevention of
Tuberculosis_ (1908) by Arthur Newsholme, M.D. A popular book is _The
Crusade against Tuberculosis_, by Lawrence F. Flick, of the Henry Phipps
Institute for the Study, Treatment, and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

[14] Those desiring copies this year or hereafter will do well to write
to The National Association for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis, 105 East 22d St., New York City. The congress is under the
control of the National Association and is managed by a special
committee appointed by it. Even after a national board of health is
established, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis will continue to be a center for private interest in public
protection against tuberculosis. One of its chief functions is the
preparation and distribution of literature to those who desire it.

CHAPTER XXV

THE FIGHT FOR CLEAN MILK

"With the approval of the President and with the cooeperation of the
Department of Agriculture,[15] the [national quarantine] service has
undertaken to prepare a complete report upon the milk industry from
farm to the consumer in its relation to the public health." This
promise of the United States Treasury insures national attention to the
evils of