ALCOHOL AND DRIVING: THE BREATHALYSER BOGEY

at the other major base hospitals, cities and towns, providing a full clinic service. Visiting clinics providing a full service were available either monthly or three-monthly in five other large towns in Victoria. Adequate functional services for every area of the State were provided, either by these full clinic services or by encouraging very close cooperation between the Department and a number of hospitals and private practitioners in parts not covered by full clinics. Visiting tuberculosis nurses played an important part in these more sparsely settled areas, and they worked in close cooperation with the clinic medical officers, local hospitals and docters. In each of the rural areas it was the nurse's responsibility to ensure that patients attended at the nearest or most convenient place for necessary attention and follow-up. It was also the responsibility of the visiting tuberculosis nurse to arrange for sputum specimens to be sent for bacteriological examination at the central laboratory.