78 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Negroes, however, in their own health that early in the year 1922 

 a state-wide Negro tuberculosis association was organized, closely 

 affiliated with the Alabama Tuberculosis Association. 



The headquarters of the Alabama Tuberculosis Association 

 are at 308 North Twenty-first Street, Birmingham, Alabama, 

 and the acting secretary is Mrs. H. E. Pearce. 



ALASKA 



There is no organized tuberculosis work in Alaska. 



As a disease, tuberculosis presents a most serious menace, 

 particularly to the native population. Through a few of the 

 mission centers and government agencies, particularly through 

 the Bureau of Education, a certain amount of literature has been 

 distributed and some talks on tuberculosis have been given. 



Medical and nursing care is available for a very limited number 

 of patients. 



For the most part, however, the problem of tuberculosis is un- 

 touched in Alaska. The distance and inaccessibility of the terri- 

 tory for a large part of the year has made it extremely difficult for 

 the National Tuberculosis Association to undertake work there. 



ARIZONA ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 

 As early as 1909 an Arizona Association for the Study and 

 Prevention of Tuberculosis had been formed. The association, 

 however, existed largely on paper, and did no active work of 

 education or organization on a state-wide basis until it was com- 

 pletely reorganized in 1916. At that time, at the instance of 

 the National Tuberculosis Association, a new association, now 

 known as the Arizona Anti-Tuberculosis Association, was formed 

 and a full-time executive secretary was employed. The immedi- 

 ate stimulus in reorganizing the association was the Christmas 

 seal. 



While Christmas seals had been sold in more or less desultory 

 fashion in Arizona for several years, after the reorganization of 

 the work and the employment of a full-time executive the seal 

 sale was multiplied more than three times, and a sufficient fund 

 was given to begin a real campaign of organization and educa- 

 tion. 



