90 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



was relatively little interest in community health, at the present 

 time there are 12 county nurses, 9 school nurses and 3 other gen- 

 eral public health nurses. The interest in community health 

 surveys, the Modern Health Crusade, poster contests and other 

 methods of bringing tuberculosis to the attention of the public 

 has been greatly stimulated. There is hardly a community in 

 the state where the message of the Idaho Anti-Tuberculosis Asso- 

 ciation has not been carried in some way or other. 



The headquarters of the Idaho Anti-Tuberculosis Association 

 are at 222 Boise City National Bank Building, Boise, Idaho, and 

 the executive secretary is Mrs. Catherine R. Athey. 



ILLINOIS TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



[Note: The work of the Illinois Tuberculosis Association and the Chicago 

 Tuberculosis Institute will be treated under separate sections.] 



As early as 1905 an Illinois State Association for the Prevention 

 of Tuberculosis, with Ernest P. Bicknell as secretary, was formed. 

 Two years earlier the Committee on the Prevention of Tubercu- 

 losis of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago had been or- 

 ganized. 



In 1904 a Committee on Tuberculosis of the Illinois State Med- 

 ical Society was formed, primarily for the purpose of securing a 

 state sanatorium through legislative enactment. 



Out of these early beginnings, and particularly from the work of 

 the Visiting Nurse Association and the enthusiasm of the late Dr. 

 Theodore B. Sachs, the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute was formed 

 on May I, 1906. For nearly five years this association served 

 both in the capacity of a local and state organization. 



In June, 1910, at the stimulus of the National Tuberculosis As- 

 sociation, the Illinois Association for the Prevention of Tubercu- 

 losis was completely reorganized and an executive office was es- 

 tablished in Chicago with Frank E. Wing as executive secretary 

 and Arthur J. Strawson as assistant secretary. The president of 

 the Association was Dr. W. A. Evans. 



Since 1910 the Illinois Association has carried on a progressive 

 campaign of education and organization throughout the state. 



The office was later moved to Springfield where it now is. 



Dr. George Thomas Palmer, who has served as president of the 



