A special appeal for funds to further the new educational
campaign of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption has been issued by a special Committee with Lord Derby as chairman, and the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Waldorf Astor joint honorary treasurers. The plan advocated comprises travelling tuberculosis exhibitions to visit the large towns, caravans with lantern-slides for small towns and villages, popular lectures, an information bureau for the Press and public, and the distribution of leaflets. It is estimated that £5,000 per annum is needed to carry out a campaign on these lines, and a special effort is being made to secure the co-operation of the working-class organisations. The Committee fortify their appeal with statistics of the ravages of consumption. Thus it is stated that from three hundred and fifty thousand to four hundred thousand persons are suffering from tuberculosis in the United Kingdom ; that ninety thousand, or one in every ten, persons die annually from tuberculosis or other forms of consumption; and that the total direct and indirect loss to the country from the disease—in Poor Law relief, Friendly Societies, charit- able institutions, and loss of wages—is not less than £8,000,000 a year. It is hoped, therefore, that the projected campaign may help to create a strong body of public opinion in favour of such a comprehensive and concerted attack as, with the resources of medical science now available, would stamp out the disease in a generation.
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