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is a communicable and preventable disease; the widest distribution of the 

 results of scientific research in this field, and of the results of modern treatment, 

 both in sanatoria and at home. 



3. The encouragement of movements for suitable public and private sana- 

 toria, both for advanced and for incipient cases; for adults and for children; 

 for free care and also for the care of those who can pay moderate fees. 



4. The relief of indigent consumptives by the provision of suitable food and 

 medicine, by the payment of rent when this is necessary to secure adequate 

 light and air, and by transportation and maintenance at a distance, when, in 

 the judgment of the committee, this is essential. 



The public interest taken in New York in this then entirely 

 new movement may be shown by the response to an appeal for 

 subscriptions to carry on the work of the committee. Within 

 two weeks many relatively small gifts had amounted to a total of 

 $5,000. This Committee, working under the auspices of the 

 powerful Charity Organization Society of the city of New York, 

 in time has become one of the leading anti-tuberculosis organiza- 

 tions in the United States. 



Among the earliest western tuberculosis associations mention 

 should be made of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, founded- 

 in 1906. Its influence has been felt in Chicago, Illinois, the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, and the entire country. The calling of this 

 organization into life was largely due to the devotion and en- 

 thusiasm of a group of pioneers in the anti-tuberculosis field, 

 among whom we must mention the late Henry B. Favill; a 

 president of the National Tuberculosis Association, Theodore 

 B. Sachs; the great blind physician, Robert H. Babcock; and 

 the skilled clinician, one of the founders of the American Medical 

 Association, Nathan S. Davis. Of those early workers in the 

 Chicago Tuberculosis Institute who are still with us we must 

 mention Drs. Frank Billings, William A. Evans, Ethan A. Gray, 

 Arnold C. Klebs, Edwin W. Ryerson, and George W. Webster. 

 Among the distinguished lay persons who gave their help and 

 support in those early days there should be mentioned Miss Jane 

 Addams, Mrs. James L. Houghteling, and the Hon. Julian W. 

 Mack. Mr. Charles L. Allen served the Institute as its first 

 honorary counsel, Mr. David R. Forgan as its first treasurer, 

 Mr. Alexander M. Wilson, and Mr. Sherman C. Kingsley as its 

 first and second secretaries. 



