38 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



hospitals and sanatoria, open-air schools and preventoria, dis- 

 pensaries and clinics, nurses and other machinery for home care 

 and relief, and all the other agencies that go to make up a well- 

 rounded campaign for the control of tuberculosis. It is not too 

 much to say, furthermore, that the increased efficiency in public 

 health work on the part of state and local departments of health 

 has been due in no small degree, and in many instances entirely, 

 to local and state tuberculosis associations. The coordination 

 of health activities, which is now progressing with agreeable 

 rapidity, is also being stimulated by the organizations brought 

 into existence through the National Tuberculosis Association. 



