THE WAR AGAINST TUBERCITLOSIS.
[To ma EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture to make a personal appeal to you to give as much publicity as you can in your paper to the appeal that I and others are making for funds with which to fight that terrible scourge tuberculosis. My great wish is to bring before the general public the now almost certain knowledge that the disease can be prevented if only people would take the same care with regard to it as they do in regard to other infectious diseases. To get this knowledge widely disseminated requires money, and it is for that I am making an appeal, which I hope you will see your way to endorse. The great loss of life and the enormous expenditure of money caused by this disease, both of which I earnestly believe could be to a very large extent averted by ordinary precaution, will, I hope you will consider, justify this letter to you.—I am,
Sir, &c., DERBY. Derby House, Stratford Place, W.
[We are glad to give prominence to Lord Derby's appeal on behalf of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, of which he is chairman, and to endorse all he says as to the imperative need of taking hold of the opportunity for getting rid of consumption which has been opened to us by recent scientific research. It will be a disgrace to the nation if, having the means to suppress this most terrible of scourges, we do not suppress it. As we have repeatedly pointed out in these columns, the waste caused directly and indirectly by consumption is well-nigh incal- culable. The offices of the Association are at 20 Hanover Square, W., and its honorary treasurers are the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Waldorf Astor.—En. Spectator.]
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