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cup, better housing laws, improved factory conditions, and the 

 compulsory reporting of tuberculosis. 



The educational campaign of the State League and its affiliated 

 local groups has been broad and extensive and, furthermore, 

 has been intensive enough to reach practically every group in 

 the population. 



The mortality from tuberculosis in 1906 was 196.0, and in 

 1920, 114.0. 



The headquarters of the New Jersey Tuberculosis League are 

 at 45 Clinton Street, Newark, New Jersey, and the secretary is 

 Mr. Ernest D. Easton. 



NEW MEXICO TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



The first state association in New Mexico was the New Mexico 

 Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, formed in 

 1909, a development of the International Congress Committee. 

 This society, however, never functioned as a state-wide organiza- 

 tion and, except for a small amount of activity centered largely in 

 Albuquerque, its headquarters did very little work. 



In 1917, at the instance of the National Association, the society 

 was reorganized under the name of the New Mexico Public Health 

 Association with an executive office in Albuquerque. 



The tuberculosis problem in New Mexico is complicated by 

 three outstanding factors; first, the indigent migratory consump- 

 tive; second, the large Mexican population, and third, the scat- 

 tered character of the communities. Considering these three 

 conditions, the development of tuberculosis work in New Mexico 

 since 1917, under the leadership largely of the State Association, 

 has been remarkable in many ways. 



One of the first tasks of the Association was to secure, in co- 

 operation with the United States Public Health Service, legisla- 

 tion providing for a State Department of Health with a full-time 

 health officer. The outgrowth of this legislation has been the se- 

 curing of full-time county health officers in several of the coun- 

 ties of the state. 



A traveling clinic, in 1919, covered many of the Spanish-speak- 

 ing districts of the state, and for the first time brought the message 

 of tuberculosis and its prevention to these villages. 

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