A Note on Some Public Health Aspects of Tuberculosis *Presented before the fifth session of the Tuberculosis Workers' Conference held in Madras on the 20th to 23rd January, 1948.

are particularly important in a social disease like tuberculosis. As a natural endeavour, we have, so far, no plan in operation and in fact the only plan we have before us for consideration is the one placed before the third session of this conference by Dr. Benjamin (1945), according to which development might take place through clearly defined stages. This is a comprehensive scheme and I presume that the recommendations of the Bhore Committee are founded on it. It is, therefore, meet and proper that we may begin with a careful examination of this scheme. To refresh your memory, I might briefly outline the plan. Dr. Benjamin bases his scheme on a minimum pulmonary tuberculosis death rate of 200 per 100,000 in urban