114 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



The Modern Health Crusade has, during the last year, been 

 presented to over 20,000 children. There has also been a very 

 considerable amount of education on tuberculosis in other ways. 



New Mexico is a health resort state. It has no provision for 

 the local care of tuberculous patients. 



There are 18 sanatoria but they are all private institutions. 

 Through the activity of the State Association and the State De- 

 partment of Health, however, there are nearly 20 public health 

 nurses now working in New Mexico. The public health interest 

 centers largely about tuberculosis and child welfare. 



The headquarters of the New Mexico Tuberculosis Association 

 are at Albuquerque, New Mexico. 



NEW YORK STATE TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



[Note: The work of the New York City and Brooklyn Tuberculosis organ- 

 izations will be treated under separate sections.] 



The campaign against tuberculosis in New York State, outside 

 of Greater New York, has since 1907 been conducted by the Com- 

 mittee on Prevention of Tuberculosis of the State Charities Aid 

 Association recently reorganized into the Committee on Tuber- 

 culosis and Public Health. 



In July 1907 the Russell Sage Foundation, at that time recently 

 established, made available a sum of money to the State Charities 

 Aid Association for the development of a state-wide campaign 

 against tuberculosis in New York with a view to demonstrating 

 the possibility of organization on a state basis. Up to that time 

 none of the state tuberculosis associations in the United States 

 had had sufficient funds with which to organize a proper cam- 

 paign. The first task of the new committee, under the immediate 

 direction of John A. Kingsbury and the general supervision of 

 Homer Folks, the general secretary of the State Charities Aid 

 Association, was to reach, with an exhibit and an educational 

 campaign, the larger cities of the state. 



By 1908 it became apparent that the immediate need of the 

 state was local hospital provision. 



In 1909 a law was enacted providing for county tuberculosis 

 hospitals. Then began a campaign which had for its slogan "No 

 uncared-for tuberculosis in New York State. " The following out 



