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Secretary, Miss Helena V. Williams and Miss Elizabeth Cole as 

 Assistant Publicity Secretaries. The service has a varied respon- 

 sibility: It not only puts out the newspaper publicity, but it 

 organizes campaigns and furnishes educational material, such as 

 motion pictures, slides, scrap-books on methods of anti-tubercu- 

 losis work, etc., and in addition edits the monthly Bulletin, the 

 Journal of the Outdoor Life and the Transactions, and handles the 

 business details of these publications and the American Review of 

 Tuberculosis. The managing editor of the Review, Dr. Allen K. 

 Krause, with offices in Baltimore, and the abstract editor, Dr. 

 George Mannheimer, are on the staff of this service. 



In addition to the six services, the National Association is 

 responsible for the Framingham Community Health and Tuber- 

 culosis Demonstration. Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, Associate 

 Secretary of the Association, is the Executive Officer, and Dr. P. 

 Challis Bartlett, the Medical Director, with offices in Framing- 

 ham. 



The methods of work of the Association may be briefly sum- 

 marized as follows: 



1. Correspondence and Personal Conference. By this means 

 direct questions concerning problems of work as between states 

 and local committees are taken care of. 



2. Conferences and Meetings. Besides its annual meeting, the 

 Association holds six sectional conferences in each of the six dis- 

 tricts into which the country has been divided and in addition 

 several special conferences and institutes where groups of workers 

 may receive intensive training and discuss specific problems. 



3. Distribution of Newspaper Publicity, Literature, Motion Pic- 

 tures, etc. By this means the Association endeavors to interest 

 the public concerning the treatment and prevention of tubercu- 

 losis. 



4. Field Visits and Conferences Through the Regional Secretaries 

 and Members of the Home Office Staff. This work is designed to 

 take up the specific problems of interest in each state and to help 

 a local group in settling its difficulties and solving its problems. 



5. Publications. The Association has three monthly publica- 

 tions: the monthly Bulletin, published primarily for workers in 

 the field; the Journal of the Outdoor Life, a popular journal for 



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