THE STATE TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATIONS 85 



While the primary business of the Commission has been the 

 construction and administration of the splendid series of five state 

 sanatoria, as required by statute, it has also been the leader in 

 conducting of campaigns of education on tuberculosis. Through 

 the money derived from the Christmas seal sale it has been able 

 to stimulate the organization of local tuberculosis work in about 

 thirty or more different centers throughout the state. Clinics, 

 nurses, open-air schools and educational agencies have developed 

 in practically every city and town of the state. The cooperation 

 of working men in the Employees' Tuberculosis Relief Associa- 

 tions has been particularly helpful in stimulating tuberculosis 

 work in the large industries so prominent throughout the state. 



In addition to the 5 state sanatoria, which include one sea-side 

 hospital for crippled children, there are 6 special tuberculosis 

 hospitals or wards of general hospitals, 23 clinics, I day camp, 

 5 preventoria, 9 open-air schools and classes, and 40 public health 

 nurses giving either full- or part-time to tuberculosis nursing. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in 1909 was 152.5. In 1920 

 the death-rate had been reduced to 119.4. 



The headquarters of the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Com- 

 mission are at the State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut, and the 

 field secretary is Hubert M. Sedgwick. The chairman of the 

 Commission is Dr. Stephen J. Maher, of New Haven. 



DELAWARE ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY 

 Out of the Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society grew the Red 

 Cross seal, and out of the Red Cross seal grew the tuberculosis 

 Christmas seal. 



The Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society was organized 

 through the interest of Miss Emily P. Bissell and Dr. John 

 Black, of Wilmington. Their first work was the erection of a 

 little sanatorium of eight beds on the banks of the Brandywine, 

 which to-day has developed into Hope Farm, a sanatorium of 

 60 beds. The needs of this sanatorium prompted Miss Bissell 

 to undertake the first Christmas seal sale. 



In 1909 the Delaware State Tuberculosis Commission came into 

 existence. Since that time there has been a certain amount of 

 division of responsibility, and a definite amount of cooperation 



