70 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Theodore F. Rice, Framingham, Mass.; Dr. Enos H. Bige- 

 low, Framingham, Mass.; Mr. Henry S. Dennison, Framing- 

 ham, Mass. 



Dr. Donald B. Armstrong was selected as executive officer in 

 July, 1916. For several months he worked with the committee in 

 the selection of a town. Framingham was finally chosen because 

 it was an average American town of about 16,000 population, 

 with average conditions as to mortality and other factors. In 

 December, 1916, Dr. Armstrong moved to Framingham and the 

 Demonstration itself was launched. 



The Demonstration started out to find, if possible, a solution to 

 these four community problems: (a) to discover and place under 

 adequate medical, nursing, and relief supervision all cases of 

 tuberculosis, incipient and advanced, active and arrested; (b) to 

 ascertain with some degree of definiteness the responsible social 

 and economic factors in disease causation, particularly as regards 

 tuberculosis; (c) to utilize in the most efficient way the existing 

 means for discovery and treatment of tuberculosis and to find out 

 what percentage of disease is preventable; (d) to find and or- 

 ganize the best community health machinery for preventing sick- 

 ness and death from tuberculosis. 



In order to evaluate the results and methods of the Demonstra- 

 tion after the initial three-year period of work, the Surgeon Gen- 

 eral of the United States Public Health Service, at the request of 

 the National Tuberculosis Association, appointed the following 

 group as a Committee on Appraisal: Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin, 

 U. S. Public Health Service, chairman; Prof. C.-E. A. Winslow, 

 Yale University, New Haven, Conn., secretary; Dr. Edgar T. 

 Sydenstricker, U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Charles V. 

 Chapin, Health Commissioner, Providence, R. I.; Dr. Victor G. 

 Heiser, Rockefeller Foundation, N. Y. City; Miss Helen R. 

 Stewart, National Organization for Public Health Nursing; Mr. 

 George J. Nelbach, State Charities Aid Association, New York; 

 Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst, State Department of Health, Ohio; 

 Dr. Thomas A. Storey, American School Hygiene Association; 

 Dr. Samuel McClintock Hamill, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Louis Hamman, Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Lawrason Brown, Trudeau Sana- 





