ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author, Arthur Newsholme, recollects and reflects upon his experiences in public health. It continues the subject from the time of the author becoming Principal Medical Officer of the Local Government Board. The author explanatory memorandum included a detailed statement on tuberculosis and on known methods of its control. The first Notification Order had led to great increase in notification of cases of phthisis in England towns and the author recommended further extensions of notification. The nutriment of the individual has much influence in increasing resistance on tuberculosis. A Sanatorium Benefit was included in the National Insurance Act, 1911. It was among the most beneficent of the provisions of that Act, not only through the Benefit itself, but much more as the result of the associated arrangements for greatly increased national expenditure in administrative measures for the control of tuberculosis. Finally, the chapter presents details of death-rate from pulmonary tuberculosis in England and Wales.
