18 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Joseph H. Pratt, David R. Lyman, William Charles White, Mr. 

 William H. Baldwin, Prof. Samuel McC. Lindsay, and ex officio 

 the Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania and the Director 

 of Public Health and Charities of Philadelphia. The Provost 

 and a committee of trustees represent the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. The executive director is Dr. Charles J. Hatfield. The 

 director of the clinical and sociological department is Dr. H. 

 R. M. Landis; the director of the laboratory is Dr. Paul A. 

 Lewis. Associate directors of the clinical and sociological de- 

 partments are Drs. A. J. Cohen, Frank A. Craig, and I. Kauffman. 



The first association for the prevention of tuberculosis in the 

 United States was the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention 

 of Tuberculosis formed by Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, of Philadel- 

 phia, in 1892. From its very beginning this society commenced 

 to agitate for the reporting and registration of living cases of 

 tuberculosis and to disburse information regarding the nature and 

 communicability of the disease. At the present time the Penn- 

 sylvania Tuberculosis Society is one of the most influential 

 organizations in the State. It has affiliated with it 97 local 

 associations. For many years it was the only state tuberculosis 

 association in the United States. 



In January, 1902, u physicians, Drs. Hermann M. Biggs, 

 Joseph D. Bryant, John H. Huddleston, A. Jacobi, Walter B. 

 James, Edward G. Janeway, Alexander Lambert, Henry P. 

 Loomis, T. Mitchell Prudden, Andrew H. Smith, Stephen Smith, 

 and the author decided to call a tuberculosis committee or asso- 

 ciation into life in New York city. Professor Edward T. De- 

 vine, Ph.D., at that time general secretary of the Charity Or- 

 ganization Society, offered his services as secretary, and another 

 distinguished layman, the Hon. Charles P. Cox, was chosen as 

 chairman. As the objects of the committee, the following pro- 

 gram was decided upon : 



1. Research into the social, as distinct from the medical, aspects of tuber- 

 culosis. For example, into the relations between the disease and overcrowding, 

 infected tenements, and unhealthy occupations, and also into the influence 

 upon recovery of improved diet and hygienic living. 



2. Education. The publication of leaflets and pamphlets, the giving of lec- 

 tures, and the promulgation in every possible way of the fact that tuberculosis 





