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hospital for moderately advanced cases at Staten Island, and 

 later in the development of an admirable system of tuberculosis 

 clinics, public and private, under the Association of Tuberculosis 

 Clinics. The Committee was also responsible for the introduction 

 of open-air classes in the schools, and the New York Association 

 still exercises a degree of supervision over this valuable adjunct 

 for the building up of children. 



The Committee cooperated with the department of health in 

 the securing of more than 150 tuberculosis and public health 

 nurses, and in other ways stimulated the increased budgets for 

 the city departments dealing with tuberculosis. 



The Committee also took an active part in state legislation, 

 particularly the modification of tenement house laws and the de- 

 velopment of New York's Health Department. 



In 1919, following the first attempt at a Greater City Christmas 

 seal sale, the New York Tuberculosis Association was organized 

 with Dr. James Alexander Miller as its president. 



One of the most significant activities of the Association since 

 its development has been the establishment of a vocational work- 

 shop largely for ex-service men who have had sanatorium treat- 

 ment. The shop follows the lines of activity successfully devel- 

 oped by the Altro Manufacturing Company, conducted by the 

 Committee on the Care of Jewish Tuberculous. 



The New York Association has also succeeded in developing 

 strong work in the outlying boroughs of the Bronx and Richmond. 



The traveling exhibit of former years has been expanded into a 

 full and complete health exhibit with social workers, lecturers, 

 and even a physician in attendance to answer requests for infor- 

 mation with real knowledge as against the usual method of having 

 only ordinary attendants at such exhibits. 



The educational work being carried on among labor unions and 

 industrial organizations is particularly worthy of mention as well 

 as the work in the schools. 



A notable movement in the anti-tuberculosis field in New York 

 City is that of the auxiliaries or committees of women attached to 

 many of the tuberculosis clinics which not only have undertaken 

 to provide funds for emergency relief, but, especially in the cases 

 of the New York Society for the Prevention and Relief of 



