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(f) That special regard should be paid to obtaining
the co-operation of medical practitioners in
the working of the schemes, particularly in relation
to the early detection of the disease and its domiciliary
and dispensary treatment. (The extended
arrangements made with the panel doctors by the
Insurance Committee would doubtless affect the
possibility of securing the desired co-operation.)
(g) That special attention should be paid to
securing suitably qualified and experienced medical
practitioners for the senior appointments in connection
with the institutions established, as the
ultimate results obtai ned by treatment recommended
must depend to a great extent upon their medical
and administrative qualifications.
6. The Local Government Board, in a circular letter
dated 14th May, 1912, stated that they agreed generally
with the finding of the Departmental Committee, including
financial recommendations in regard to the distribution
of the capital grants, which they proposed to adopt, and
urging that councils of each county and county borough
should forthwith take the matter into serious consideration.
7. A further circular letter followed dated 6th July,
1912, addressed to county councils and county-borough
•councils, dealing with the provisional arrangements for
the treatment of insured persons recommended for
sanatorium benefit, and urging that complete schemes
relating to the whole population, and not only to insured
persons, should be prepared in conference with the
Insurance Committees and sanitary authorities, the unit
area for such schemes to be generally the county or
county-borough.
8. On the 27th July, 1912, the Board sent a further