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FOR many years the National Association for the Pre-vention of Consumption worked away unostentatiously but pertinaciously. The experience gained during these years must now be to them of great value in the educational crusade they have undertaken. During the past'year an educational exhibition has been going the round of London, into the provinces, east and west and north, to Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, Edinburgh, &c. Nothing has been more gratifying or more promising for the ultimate success of this crusade than the keen interest that has been taken in this exhibition, and in the lectures and conferences by all sorts and conditions of men—and women, too, for that matter. We should, naturally, expect public health authorities to be interested, but all who have seen the audiences gathered together at these lectures and conferences cannot but have been impressed by the intelligent interest taken, even by the very poor, in the question of the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis. Some of the work undertaken by the association at one time appeared to come dangerously near interfering with or overlapping the work of the local medical authorities, and with hospitals and associations already in existence; but through the g-ood sense of those who, though working in different directions, are mutually interested in putting a check on the spread of consumption, the danger of such overlapping is gradually being minimised.
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The Crusade Against Consumption . Nature 84, 374–375 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084374b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084374b0