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always been a prominent feature of the Association. The 

 principal activity of the Association in this connection has been 

 the Framingham Community Health and Tuberculosis Demon- 

 stration established in the fall of 1916, at Framingham, Massa- 

 chusetts. The Demonstration closed its initial period of three 

 years in December, 1919, and as a result of a report of an inde- 

 pendent committee of appraisal was continued for another period 

 of years from a grant of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- 

 pany, which had originally advanced $100,000 for this purpose. 

 A more complete discussion of the Framingham Demonstration 

 will be found in Chapter VII. 



In connection with its work for the United States Public Health 

 Service, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and the Federal 

 Board for Vocational Education, the Association has also exer- 

 cised its function of demonstration. 



8. In 1917 the National Association inaugurated a movement 

 for the creation of correct habits for health among school chil- 

 dren, known as the Modern Health Crusade. The Crusade grew 

 out of the Christmas Seal Sale and at the start numbered a hand- 

 ful of crusaders. Its conception and development have been due 

 largely to Charles M. DeForest, of the Association staff. At 

 the present time over 7,000,000 children are enrolled in this 

 movement in the United States alone. If to this number were 

 added the crusaders in France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, China, 

 and elsewhere, the total would run into many millions more. 



The Modern Health Crusade is not an organization. It is a 

 system of health education. It is based upon the following n 

 standard chores: 



1. I washed my hands before each meal to-day. 



2. I washed not only my face, but my ears and neck, and I cleaned my 

 finger-nails to-day. 



3. I kept fingers, pencils, and everything likely to be unclean or injurious 

 out of my mouth and nose to-day. 



4. I brushed my teeth thoroughly after breakfast and after the evening meal 

 to-day. 



5. I took ten or more slow, deep breaths of fresh air to-day. I was careful 

 to protect others if I spit, coughed, or sneezed. 



6. I played outdoors or with open windows more than thirty minutes to-day. 



7. I was in bed ten hours or more last night and kept my windows open. 



