NETHERLANDS

Tuberculous Teachers in the Schools  The annual (1927) report of the Provinciale Zeeuwsche Vereeniging tot Bestrijding der Tuberculose contains a communication by Dr. A. J. Hoorweg concerning two cases of tuberculosis in teachers. Hoorweg conducted researches on twenty-five of the eighty pupils of the school in which the teachers were employed and on sixty-seven of the 100 pupils of another school. In the first school, two pupils were affected with tuberculosis, one of whom came from a contaminated milieu. Four others were suspected of being tuberculous (tracheobronchial adenopathy). In the second school, no cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were found. Five doubtful cases were noted that presented a positive Pirquet reaction. This test applied to twenty-four pupils of the first school gave twelve positive results, eleven negative, and one doubtful. The same test applied to sixty-three children in the second school revealed nine positive cases, forty-one negative, and thirteen doubtful. In