118 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Tuberculosis and the Woman 's Auxiliary to the Bellevue Tuber- 

 culosis Clinic, have stepped into the breach and have organized 

 day camps and nurseries, have supported educational classes, 

 and strengthened the clinic work wherever it needed support. 

 These auxiliaries under the leadership of the New York Tubercu- 

 losis Association, have been confederated into an organization 

 known as the Associated Tuberculosis Auxiliaries. 



In connection with the work of the New York Tuberculosis 

 Association mention should be made also of the activities of the 

 New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 

 under the leadership of Bailey B. Burritt. This Association, 

 while largely a relief agency, has been instrumental in developing 

 a unique contribution to tuberculosis methodology, namely, the 

 Home Hospital. Here the tuberculous patient and his family may 

 receive treatment under home environment, with intensive med- 

 ical and nursing care approximating that secured in a sanatorium. 



The death rate from tuberculosis in Greater New York has de- 

 clined from 240.6 in 1902 to 127.8 in 1920. 



The headquarters of the New York Tuberculosis Association 

 are at 10 East 39th Street, New York City, and the Director is 

 Mr. J. Byron Deacon. 



COMMITTEE ON THE PREVENTION OF TUBERCULO- 

 SIS OF THE BROOKLYN BUREAU OF CHARITIES 



[Note: This section will treat of the work in the boroughs of Brooklyn and 

 Queens of the city of Greater New York.] 



Organized tuberculosis work in Brooklyn dates back to 1905, 

 when the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the 

 Brooklyn Bureau of Charities was formed. It is interesting to 

 note that in Brooklyn, as in Manhattan, the original tubercu- 

 losis committee was a branch of the leading relief organization 

 of the city. This committee relationship in Brooklyn is still 

 maintained. There is no independent tuberculosis association 

 as in Manhattan. 



The Brooklyn Committee has made a number of signal con- 

 tributions to tuberculosis work in that borough, and in the 

 country at large, notably the development of the Medford Sana- 

 torium, through the active participation, financial and other- 



