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wind campaign the slogan of which was "Vote 'Yes' for the 

 tuberculosis hospital!" The proposition was carried by a large 

 vote and assured a sufficient fund from taxation to make possible 

 the Municipal Sanitarium. It took nearly seven years of self- 

 sacrificing and diligent work, the burden of which fell chiefly 

 upon Dr. Sachs and Mr. Frank E. Wing, before the Municipal 

 Sanitarium was opened in 1915. There are few institutions in 

 the United States that owe their existence more distinctly to the 

 personal interest and clear vision of a non-official agency than 

 the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. 



With the Municipal Sanitarium, and under its supervision, 

 there has been provided a chain of ten municipal tuberculosis 

 dispensaries, a staff of tuberculosis nurses, and other facilities. 



Chicago has also led the way, under the Tuberculosis Institute 

 and the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, in the open-air 

 school campaign. 



In recent years the work of the Institute has been extended to 

 Cook County, outside of Chicago, where it now maintains a 

 corps of 15 nurses and a clinical director. Twenty-four towns are 

 now organized and cooperate with the Institute in the various 

 phases of its work. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in Chicago in 1906 was 191.9. 

 As a partial indication of the activity of the Chicago Tubercu- 

 losis Institute and the agencies which it has brought into existence, 

 the death-rate from tuberculosis has declined in 1920 to 97.4. 



The headquarters of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute are 

 at 8 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, and the superin- 

 tendent is Mr. James Minnick. 



INDIANA TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



The first attempt at the organization of tuberculosis work in 

 Indiana was the establishment of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society 

 of Indiana in October, 1904, which followed the enthusiasm 

 generated by a lecture given by Dr. S. A. Knopf. The organiza- 

 tion, however, never functioned and soon passed out of existence. 



In 1907 the Indiana Association for the Prevention of Tubercu- 

 losis was formed, and carried on for a time a more or less desultory 

 campaign, chiefly in Indianapolis. A number of county organi- 



