CONNAUGHT ANTITOXIN LABOBATORIE 

 RESEARCH DIVISION 



THE STATE TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATIONS 115 



of that slogan has resulted, by January I, 1922, in the establish- 

 ment of county hospitals in 37 counties. In addition the City of 

 Buffalo has provided 2 municipal institutions. Municipal pro- 

 vision has also been secured in Albany, and the capacity of the 

 State Sanatorium at Ray brook has been doubled. 



The total bed capacity of New York State, outside of New 

 York City in 1907 was 324. On January I, 1922, the total bed 

 capacity in New York State was 3,360. Along with this progres- 

 sive growth in institutional provision has gone a corresponding 

 development in dispensaries, nurses, open-air schools, preventoria 

 and similar agencies. By this time there are 68 sanatoria, 40 dis- 

 pensaries, 232 nurses, 49 open-air schools, and 4 preventoria. 



Furthermore the archaic public health law of New York, at the 

 instance of the State Tuberculosis Committee, was completely 

 revised and an up-to-date department of health was created, 

 placing New York State in a leading position for the entire coun- 

 try. The significance of this public health law with its district 

 supervisors and its entire machinery for relaying the state health 

 facilities to the local health departments can hardly be over- 

 estimated in the prevention of tuberculosis. 



As might have been expected, the State Tuberculosis Commit- 

 tee has been obliged to organize its work extensively throughout 

 the state. During the formative period of this work it formed 

 a large number of county and local committees, over 300 all told. 

 More recently, however, the development has been along intensive 

 lines, particularly in the formation of strong county associations 

 with full-time paid executives. At the present time there are 52 

 such associations, and in addition there are other local commit- 

 tees. 



The New York State Committee's campaign is probably the 

 most striking example of the way in which a non-official voluntary 

 association can by intensive effort secure institutions, nurses, dis- 

 pensaries and other machinery for the control of tuberculosis. 

 The amount of money spent by the state committee and its affili- 

 ated agencies is relatively small when compared with the millions 

 of dollars invested from public funds and the hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars being spent each year from the same sources. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in New York State, outside 



