12 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 28

The Conquest of Consumption. By Arthur Latham, M.D., and Charles

H. Garland. (T. Fisher Unwin. 4e. 6d. net.)—The authors of this treatise rightly describe it as an "economic study." They have collected and they interpret a number of facts which show us what consumption costs, to put the matter plainly. And they go on to set before us what it would cost to use such means as science provides to " conquer " this disease. Comparatively few realise how far it is preventable, but the knowledge is bound to spread. Meanwhile we give a hearty welcome to the volume before us. ---