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an advanced stage are not fit subjects for admission, and in all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis special precautions should be taken to prevent the communication of the disease to others. Discharge on license should be possible after nine months' treat ment, and should be the usual practice at the end of twelve months. If an inmate is not licensed at the end of a year the matter should be reported to the secretary of state, and if still in the reformatory after eighteen

months, there should be a detailed report on the case, in order that it may be decided whether the inmate should be discharged on the ground that no cure can reasonably be expected, or whether he should be re moved to another reformatory or otherwise dealt with. A temporary license should be given whenever it is thought advisable to allow any inmate to leave the reformatory for more than a few hours.