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Association are at 923 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., and 

 the executive secretary is Mr. Walter S. Ufford. 



FLORIDA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 



The State Public Health Association in Florida is among the 

 youngest of the state organizations. It was organized in March, 

 1916. The Christmas seal is immediately responsible for the 

 state association. An effort was made to employ a full-time 

 executive secretary in 1917, but partly due to war conditions, 

 this endeavor was abandoned after four months' trial. After 

 the armistice a full-time executive was secured. It would be 

 difficult to estimate the progress that has been made in Florida 

 in knowledge of tuberculosis and public health within the last 

 four years. 



Through the State Board of Health and the State Federation 

 of Women's Clubs there had been a certain amount of interest in 

 tuberculosis prior to the formation of the Florida Public Health 

 Association. It was the putting of the state-wide work on a 

 business basis with a full-time executive that pushed the entire 

 campaign forward by leaps and bounds. 



At the present time there is one county tuberculosis hospital, 

 and provision is being made for others. There are two perma- 

 nent and one traveling clinic. There are more than a dozen public 

 health nurses in different parts of the state. 



The Modern Health Crusade and other methods of education 

 are being extended rapidly. 



The work in Florida is still in its beginnings, and it has been 

 hampered by unfavorable financial conditions. The problem 

 is further complicated by the large number of Negroes in the 

 state. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in 1920 was 104.1. 



The headquarters of the Florida Public Health Association 

 are at 507 Dyal-Upchurch Building, Jacksonville, Florida, and 

 the executive secretary is Mr. R. H. Hixson. 



GEORGIA TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Among the earliest tuberculosis activities in Georgia was the 

 formation of a committee on tuberculosis in the Georgia Medical 



