or inaccessible or thinly populated parts of the State, why their plans are not feasible, and how their enthusiasm could be made of infinitely greater value to the State and to their tuberculous neighbors. Our advice to them and to all who now desire to help. Connecticut control tuberculosis is: Give your encouragement and money to Visiting Nurse Associations, to the end that they may enlarge the present tuberculosis dispensaries; that they may open other tuberculosis dispensaries throughout the State; that they may be able to do even more and better follow-up work and home work than they now do; that they may be able to compass the smaller, but valuable, undertakings of summer camps and open-air schools and preventoria, and that they may be able to make their records of the incidence of tuberculosis in the State, valuable to the health officials and to the State Commission and to all students of the subject of tuberculosis.

We have already referred to the fact that in addition to the work at the sanatoria, our physicians give expert and gratuitous assistance in the opening and conducting of neighboring tuberculosis dispensaries,-Dr. Dinnan to that of the Meriden Public Health Association; Dr. Strobel to the New Britain Board of Health Dispensary; Dr. Lynch to the Bridgeport Tuberculosis Dispensary; Dr. Campbell to the tuberculosis clinics at Norwich, at the Connecticut Mills at Danielson and at the Lawton Mills at Plainfield.

Perhaps, with the release from the army of the physicians inducted during the past months, it will not be necessary to continue our direct help to these dispensaries, but we are proud to learn, as we have learned, that these services of our superintendents have been highly prized, not only by the several managements of the dispensaries, but also by the physicians of the towns and by the patients.

FIRE PROTECTION.

The comparative inaccessibility of our institutions, the character of our buildings, and in some cases the inadequate water supply, as well as the fact that some of them are outside city fire limits, have made the question of an adequate fire protection very perplexing. The last Legislature appropriated $25,000 for fire sprinkler systems at the institutions. After careful investigation and consultations with the chiefs of the fire departments in the localities of the institutions, as well as with other experts in such matters, the sprinkler system method was abandoned as not

practical or efficient for our buildings, and a systematic plan was adopted involving an increase in water supply, more hydrants and hose and small fire extinguishers.

This work is now in progress, and is under the supervision of engineers, Ford, Buck, and Sheldon, of Hartford.

To carry out this plan, the Board of Control transferred the special appropriation of $25,000, referred to above, to "miscellaneous equipment."

THE TUBERCULOSIS PROBLEM.

In view of the fact that the State has expended large sums of money for the erection of buildings devoted to the care of its people afflicted with tuberculosis, a large proportion of our citizens are inclined to conclude that in this way the problem of tuberculosis can be solved. It is the too prevalent opinion that any resident of the State, found to be suffering from tuberculosis, can be sent at once and should be sent at once, to one of these institutions. There is an insistent and increasing demand upon us for more beds, and last winter, notwithstanding our long waiting list of nearly two hundred infirmary patients, we were in constant receipt of letters from individuals, physicians and town officials, complaining that some one, who had been found to have the disease, could not be at once received into one of the sanatoria.

The tuberculosis problem can never be solved in Connecticut or in this country, by simply increasing the institutional accommodations for its tuberculous sick. In Connecticut alone, it is estimated that there are about 16,000 cases of active tuberculosis. The State institutions and available private sanatoria cannot all together now accommodate more than 900 patients. In our opinion, it should be more generally understood that the only defensible reason for the establishment of these costly sanatoria in Connecticut, is that they shall be educational. These institutions should not be so largely filled with patients who are so sick that there is for them no hope of recovery. The proper place for such patients is in the local general hospitals, where they can be cared for with more comfort to themselves and their friends, and much less expense. It has been extremely hard for people to grasp this fact, but they have begun.

FRIENDS OF THE MERIDEN SANATORIUM.

Mrs. G. Dahlman, Meriden, Conn.,
magazines.

Italian Baptist Mission, Meriden,
Conn., books, cards and papers
for the children.
Mr. Jonathan Godfrey, Bridge-
port, Conn., books and games
for the children.
John White, Meriden,
books and magazines.
St. Ann's Guild, New Haven,
Conn., stockings with toys,
books, fruit, dolls, etc., for the
children.

Conn.,

St. Rose's Guild, New Haven,
Conn., flowers.

St. Vincent De Paul Society,
Meriden, Conn., clothing, shoes
and rubbers.
William Jennings, Meriden,
Conn., Christmas decorations.
Ladies' Aid Society,, Norwalk,
Conn., fruit, slippers and bou-
doir caps.

Mrs. W. L. Cheney, Meriden,
Conn., magazines.
Mrs. E. B. Galvin,

Conn., flowers.

Meriden,

Visiting Nurses Asso., New Ha

ven, Conn., stationery, magazines and books.

J. H. White, Meriden, Conn., magazines and books.

Rev. John Lynch.

Rev. Patrick McCarthy.
Rev. Thomas McGarry.
Rev. N. F. X. Schneider.
Rev. A. Van Oppen.
Rev. John Ceppa.

Rev. George Bartalewski.
Rev. D. Ricci.

Rev A. T. Randall.

Rev. F. S. Lippett.

Rev. A. J. Lord.

Mrs. R. Wilson, Meriden, Conn., magazine's.

cut

Mrs. William Woodley, Meriden,
Conn., magazines and
flowers.

Mrs. W. I. Wilcox, Meriden,
Conn., magazines.

Young Women's Christian As-
sociation, Meriden, Conn., ice
cream, magazines and cut
flowers.

Mrs. W. H., Squires, Meriden,
Conn., magazines.

Miss Margt. Robinson, Meriden,
Conn., cut flowers.

Mrs. Mary McKay, Meriden,

Conn., papers and cut flowers. Women's Temperance Union, Meriden, Conn., cut flowers. Mr. J. Sternberg, Meriden, Conn., cut flowers, magazines, papers,

etc.

Mrs. Lyman, West Haven, Conn., piano.

Miss E. Ely, Meriden, Conn., magazines, papers.

St. Andrew's Sunday School,
Meriden, Conn., magazines, pa-
pers, etc.

Dr. Stephen J. Maher, New Ha-
ven, Conn., candy and cigars.
Girls' Friendly Society, Meriden,
Conn., candy and fruit.

Rev. Fred Saunders.
Rev. J. W. Musson.
Rev. F. Ludgren.
Rev. A. A. Engdahl.
Rev. Paul Kirsch.
Rev. P. Saurusitis.

Girls' Friendly Society of St. Andrew's Church and the Lutheran Church come once a month and sing to the patients in the different wards.

Providence Bakery.
Utley & Jones.
The Del Hoff Hotel.
Engler's Drug Store.
William Stearns
George Keppler.
Mrs. Charles Vaughn.
The Evening Record.
H. M. Lerou.

Mrs. Lucius Brown.
John Tarrant.

Dana Coit.

Gilbert Hewitt.

Franklin Rumford.
Wauregan Hotel.
Charles Phelps.

Frisbie & McCormick.

Preston Bros.
James L. Case.

C. A. Gager, Jr.

F. D. Thumm.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace S. Allis.
Miss Aida Watrous.

Mr. and Mrs. William Austin.

Frank Herbert.

Mrs. George Comeau.
Bishop & Bidwell.
Mrs. Ethel Collins.
Stoddard & Gilbert.
The Osgood Co.
Woolworth Co.
Reid & Hughes Co.
Porteous & Mitchell,

J. E. Moore.

Walter Gibbons.
Geduldig's.

Miss Anna Hield.
C. D. White.

The St. Rose's Guild.
Lee & Osgood.
The Toggery Shop.
Geo. W. Kies Shoe Co.
James W. Cosgrove.
The Hamilton Co.
Murphy & McGarry.
The Manhattan Shop.
Perkins' Candy Store.
Peterson's.

J. M. Young.
Cranston Co.

The Mohican Store.
Jordan Co.
Stephen Kehoe.
J. McPherson.
Mrs. F. S. Camp.

C. L. Swan.

J. M. Young.

Mrs. E. F. Donohue.

J. F. Tompkins.

Mrs. Frederick A. Byrnes.
Charles P. Bushnell.

Mrs. George W. Lane.

The contributions included a $330 Holiday Fund, which was solicited by Mrs. Frederick A. Byrnes and Miss Mary Richards of Norwich.

THE PRIVATE BENEFACTORS OF SHELTON SANATORIUM.

Mrs. Anne E. Bassett, 70 North

Cliff St., Ansonia, Conn., Amer-
ican flag for institution.
Moving picture machine enter-
tainment by employees of S.
Blumenthal & Co., Shelton, ar-
ranged by Mrs. Bassett.
Flowers at Easter time.
Books for library.

Magazines off and on through-
out two years, for patients.
At Christmas time, electric light
bulbs for Christmas trees, fa-
vors for patients' trays and
dining room; also sleeping
caps and socks for patients.
Through the kindness of Mrs.
Bassett, and the following,
Victrola was donated to the
Women's Infirmary: Mr.

Charles F. Bliss, Ansonia; Mr. and Mrs. George C. Bryant, 75 North Cliff St., Ansonia; Mrs. David Bowen, 5 Clover St., Ansonia; Miss Mary F. Brodie, Elizabeth St., Derby; Mr. Frank M. Clark, Birmingham National Bank, Derby; Mr. William A. Cowles, Ansonia, Conn.; Mrs. Franklin Farrel, Tower Hall, Ansonia; Mrs. E. F. Goss; Mr. Edward McQuade, Ansonia; Miss Margaret McLean, Woodbridge Ave., Ansonia: Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge, 46 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven; Mrs. Charles van Riper, Garden St., Ansonia. Clothing-Mr. Jonathan Godfrey, Bridgeport; Mrs. C. R. Worthen,