THE STATE TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATIONS 89 



HAWAII 



The campaign against tuberculosis was inaugurated in Hawaii 

 in 1909 as a result of the interest of James A. Rath and some of 

 his associates connected with the Palama Settlement in Hono- 

 lulu. 



The interest, stimulated by the Anti-Tuberculosis League of 

 Hawaii, grew steadily until in 1920 the territorial Government 

 took over the entire activities of the League and expanded the 

 work in the form of nursing, institutional and educational pro- 

 vision. The League has now gone out of existence, but the 

 entire tuberculosis campaign is being carried on in a much 

 broader and extensive form than ever before. 



IDAHO ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Through the accidental interest of the energetic proprietor of a 

 leading department store in Boise, Mr. Henry L. Falk, the Idaho 

 Anti-Tuberculosis Association developed. During the Christmas 

 season of 1914 a customer at Mr. Falk's store asked for Christmas 

 seals. Not knowing what they were, he wrote to one of his buyers 

 in New York and ascertained where they could be had. He then 

 sold them to some of his customers. 



The following year, in 1915, the National Tuberculosis Asso- 

 ciation, capitalizing the interest created, formed the Idaho Anti- 

 Tuberculosis Association and conducted, with the cooperation 

 of Mr. Falk, a mail sale campaign of the Christmas seal to provide 

 the initial funds with which to start the organization. The next 

 year an executive secretary was employed. 



In spite of large territory, sparse population, and difficulties of 

 communication, in the past three years the Idaho Association has 

 secured legislation for two tuberculosis hospitals ; secured the lo- 

 cation at Boise of Public Health Service Hospital No. 52 for ex- 

 service men ; placed the Modern Health Crusade in the curriculum 

 of the public school system, enrolling 80,000 children and thereby 

 winning the National Crusade Cup in 1921; organized and fi- 

 nanced 1 8 county associations; put on nursing demonstrations 

 and school inspections in 22 of the 44 counties of the state. 



While in 1916, when the work of the Association began there 



