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(a) Cooperation with various governmental and semi-govern- 

 mental agencies interested in the health of the soldier was in- 

 evitable. To such agencies as the American Red Cross, Federal 

 Board for Vocational Education, Y.M.C.A., Bureau of War Risk 

 Insurance, United States Public Health Service, and many others 

 generous cooperation was extended, but among the agencies with 

 which the Tuberculosis Association cooperated, and perhaps the 

 most important of all in the way of sympathy and results, was 

 the office of the Surgeon General of the Army, both under the 

 late Major General Gorgas and his successor, Major General 

 Ireland. 



(6) The Association assumed an active responsibility in edu- 

 cating the soldiers, both in camps at home and abroad, regarding 

 the necessity of preserving their health. The distribution of 

 great quantities of literature and exhibit material helped ma- 

 terially in this connection. 



(c) The Association served as an adviser to a number of 

 agencies, governmental and extra-governmental, interested in 

 the health of the soldier and in this capacity greatly stimulated 

 activity on the part of these agencies. 



(d) Through the office of the Surgeon General of the United 

 States Army, the names of men rejected on account of tubercu- 

 losis were transmitted to the National Association's office and 

 thence to state and local tuberculosis agencies and other groups 

 who were interested in following up and securing for these men 

 the best care and supervision. 



(e) The war program of the National Association has extended 

 and is still (even in 1921) extending over the country. The 

 Association is exercising its responsibility to the men discharged 

 from the army and those still in government tuberculosis hos- 

 pitals, and is maintaining an active and varied interest in the 

 agencies dealing with these men. 



4. The Association has been called upon to deal with a large 

 number of questionable agencies which have traded upon the 

 tuberculosis campaign for various reasons, including such asso- 

 ciations as the National White Cross League, the Children's 

 National Tuberculosis Society, the McKinley Memorial League, 

 etc. Similarly the Association has been called upon to investi- 



