84 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



The Association has been instrumental in stimulating a demand 

 for reorganization of the State Health Department. While its 

 efforts have not yet proved successful, the constantly increasing 

 interest in public health will surely accomplish the desired result. 



In 1918 less than $10,000 was available for tuberculosis edu- 

 cational work in the entire state. In 1922 expenditures of the 

 state and local associations will total over $43,000. These 

 figures epitomize the progress of the tuberculosis campaign in 

 Colorado. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in Colorado in 1908 was 

 256.2, and in 1920 it was 225.4. 



The headquarters of The Colorado Tuberculosis Association 

 are at 409 Barth Building, Denver, Colorado, and the executive 

 secretary is Miss G. I. Pel ton. 



CONNECTICUT STATE TUBERCULOSIS COMMISSION 

 In Connecticut, the anti-tuberculosis campaign is conducted 

 by the State Tuberculosis Commission. Connecticut has never 

 had a state tuberculosis association in the sense in which this term 

 is used in most other states. Public tuberculosis work was started 

 in 1902 by the New Haven County Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 

 the establishment of the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium at Walling- 

 ford, and the Wild wood Sanatorium at Hartford. Out of the 

 interest generated by the establishment of these two sanatoria, 

 and the report of a special investigation commission appointed by 

 Governor Woodruff in 1907, the legislature in 1909 created the 

 Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission primarily for the 

 establishment of a series of joint state and county tuberculosis 

 hospitals. Dr. J. P. C. Foster was the first chairman of this 

 Commission. 



With the development of interest in tuberculosis work through- 

 out the state, the State Commission by legal enactment and 

 common consent assumed such a place of leadership that it be- 

 came the logical agency through which the National Tuberculosis 

 Association worked. For several years, therefore, the State Tu- 

 berculosis Commission has served as the agent for the sale of 

 Christmas seals and has stood in the same relationship to the 

 National Tuberculosis Association as a state association. 



