82 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



developed a work of unusual significance. At the present time 

 there are 28 counties in the state operating subsidized tubercu- 

 losis hospitals, with a bed capacity of 1 ,900. All of these hospi- 

 tals are supervised and inspected by the State Bureau and must 

 maintain adequate standards in order to retain the state subsidy. 

 Twelve cities are operating tuberculosis clinics. There are 9 

 summer camps, 4 preventoria, and open-air schools in 4 cities. 

 There are nearly 60 tuberculosis nurses, besides a much larger 

 number of nurses doing general public health work, including 

 tuberculosis. 



The educational work of the state association has covered a 

 wide range, including lectures, distribution of printed matter, 

 Modern Health Crusade, motion pictures, billboards, etc. 



The state association has greatly stimulated occupational 

 therapy by the employment of teachers to visit sanatoria under 

 the supervision of the State Bureau. 



The traveling motor clinic, organized in 1920, toured the rural 

 districts of the state. 



The State Tuberculosis Association has also greatly stimulated 

 all the public health work of the state, particularly that relating 

 to medical examination of school children. 



When it is recalled that in 1915, outside of San Francisco and 

 Los Angeles, there was not a single decent place in the entire 

 state for consumptives without means to receive examination 

 or treatment, the present status of the work in California exhibits 

 a phenomenal progress. The State Tuberculosis Association 

 may justly take the credit for most of this progress. 



The tuberculosis death-rate in California has steadily declined 

 in spite of the influx of migratory consumptives and the fact that 

 southern California particularly is widely used as a resort for 

 the tuberculous. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in 1907, when the first state 

 association was formed, was 2,198. In 1914 it had declined to 

 195.0, and in 1920 to 159.6. 



The headquarters of the California Tuberculosis Association 

 are at 418 Griffith McKenzie Building, Fresno, California, and 

 the executive secretary is Mrs, E. L. M. Tate-Thompson. 



