40 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



achievements of the Association during the last fifteen years may 

 be briefly summarized as follows : 



1. On the side of research and publication the Association has, 

 either through its executive office or through its membership, 

 accomplished much. Most of the results of this research are 

 published in the annual volumes of Transactions. In addition 

 to the Transactions, the Association has put out a number of 

 special volumes and monographs, including its "Tuberculosis 

 Directory," issued in four editions, 1908, 1911, 1916, and 1919; 

 "Fresh Air and How to Use It"; and "Tuberculosis Hospital 

 and Sanatorium Construction." Pamphlets on the "Influence 

 of Tuberculosis Sanatoria on Surrounding Property" ; "Tubercu- 

 losis Legislation in the United States"; "Tuberculosis Dis- 

 pensary Method and Procedure"; "Sleeping and Sitting in the 

 Open Air"; "What You Should Know About Tuberculosis"; 

 " Workingmen's Organization in the An ti -Tuberculosis Cam- 

 paign"; "What Tuberculosis Workers Should Know About 

 Discharged and Rejected Soldiers," and "An Outline of Lectures 

 on Tuberculosis," have also been published from time to time. 

 The results of studies of a less extensive character have been 

 published in the three periodicals issued by the Association, viz., 

 the monthly Bulletin, the Journal of the Outdoor Life, and the 

 American Review of Tuberculosis. 



2. One of the most significant'achievements of the Association 

 has been its promotion of the Red Cross Christmas Seal. The 

 Seal Sale, starting with a little over $100,000 in 1908, reached a 

 total in 1920 of nearly $4,000,000. The educational and financial 

 assistance rendered through the Red Cross Seal Sale, now the 

 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Sale, has proved of incalculable 

 benefit. 



3. The National Association recognized before the entrance of 

 America into the World War that tuberculosis constituted a 

 serious war problem. The insistence of the National Association 

 that the government recognize this problem brought tubercu- 

 losis, for the first time in the history of warfare, to a prominence 

 that it had never before occupied. The war program carried 

 out by the National Association may be briefly summarized as 

 follows : 



