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(2) The purchase of drugs and medicines and the price to be paid
therefor.

This suggestion is very far from exhausting the question of
prices to be paid for drugs and medicines, but he suggested that
the question of the prices of other medicines should be left over,
until the Advisory Committee to the Insurance Commissioners
have considered the question, in connection with the full scheme of
medical attendance.
This I am in agreement with, as the information at the disposal
of that Committee is much more extensive than that at my disposal,
and the question is less urgent, if, as it appears to be advisable,
the doctor's fee for domiciliary treatment should include medicines.
(3) The preparation of lists of Doctors who shall attend patients
at their homes.
In order to prepare such a list, it is necessary first ot all to fix
upon a scale of remuneration, which will be acceptable to the majority
of doctors practising in the area. Such a scale is that above suggested.
The next step is to ask each medical practitioner in the
district, if he is prepared to attend tuberculous patients at their
homes, referred to him by the Insurance Committee, at the fees
suggested, and to carry out the treatment decided by the expert
tuberculosis officer to the Insurance Committee. (When the
local tuberculosis dispensary is established, this will be the Tuberculosis
Officer under the control of the Borough Council.) Two