I have not forgotten that I promised to write to The Bulletin during my absence, but have been so very busy that hitherto it has been impossible.

Surgery, hospital and clinic work fill each day except Sundays from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. Take out a little time for sight seeing, theatre, etc., and one has not much time for letter writing.

Aside from the great achievements in the science of surgery, the great strides of advancement now being made along the lines of preventative medicine are of the greatest import to all humanity of this and future generations, and are not the least of the many great wonders of the scientific world today. Scientists and medical men are not only striving to find cures for the hitherto incurable diseases, but they are toiling ceaselessly to prevent the spread of the most common of the great plagues, that they may slowly but surely be stamped out completely in that way.

The crusade against tuberculosis — the disease which has been considered incurable and which is responsible for more deaths than any other to which humanity is heir — has been taken up in New York City and state more zealously than elsewhere. …

Twenty-five years ago neither the medical profession nor the people appreciated the gravity of the disease, in regard to enforcing any preventive … efforts. … Realizing the infectiousness of tuberculosis that makes it so terrible and that is spread rapidly by the sputum of the diseased, every effort has been made to prevent its spread.