102 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



propriation for the first state sanatorium, located at Rutland. 

 The state sanatorium grew out of Dr. Bowditch's experience at 

 the Sharon Sanatorium, established seven years earlier in 1891. 



The interest of men like Dr. Bowditch, Dr. Edward O. Otis, 

 Dr. James J. Minot, and others brought about, in 1903, the 

 organization of the Boston Association for the Relief and Control 

 of Tuberculosis. 



In the same year a group of workers in Cambridge formed the 

 Tuberculosis Aid and Education Association of Cambridge, now 

 known as the Cambridge Anti-Tuberculosis Association. 



For more than ten years the Boston Association served as a 

 state association much in the same way as the Chicago Tuber- 

 culosis Institute had done in Illinois. Local associations sprang 

 up in various parts of the state, particularly in the larger centers 

 of population. 



In 1914, however, it became apparent that there was necessity 

 for closer coordination as well as need for covering the territory 

 more adequately. Out of this need grew the Massachusetts 

 Anti-Tuberculosis League in February, 1914. 



Meanwhile, in 1907, largely as a result of the activity of the 

 Boston group, a State Commission had been appointed to erect 

 three tuberculosis hospitals in different parts of the state. 



In 1906 the State Medical Society created a group of its local 

 organizations on the prevention of tuberculosis. All of its activi- 

 ties were later merged either in the State Department of Health, 

 or in the new State Anti-Tuberculosis League. 



Credit for the present existing machinery for the control of 

 tuberculosis in Massachusetts belongs, therefore, not entirely 

 to the State League, but to various agencies. Much of it owes 

 its existence to the Boston Association and to the other asso- 

 ciations at Cambridge, Lawrence, Salem, New Bedford, Holyoke, 

 Springfield, Fall River, and Brookline, all of which had been active 

 for several years previous to the organization of the State League. 

 Credit also belongs to the State Department of Health, includ- 

 ing its district health officers and nurses, to the visiting nurses' 

 associations, and to such men as the late Dr. William J. Gallivan, 

 who were active in securing progressive health legislation before 

 the State League was organized. 



