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out of the feeling that an independent association could be more 

 effective and more representative of the state as a whole. 



The tuberculosis program in North Carolina has shown dis- 

 tinct advance, particularly in the development of educational 

 work for Negroes, public health nursing, the admirable state 

 sanatorium, and medical education. The traveling clinic of the 

 state association has also been a distinct feature of the work. 



At the present time, beside the state sanatorium, with a capa- 

 city for 200 white patients and a state sanatorium for Negroes 

 in process of erection, there are two county sanatoria with a 

 bed capacity for 48 white and colored, and two other county 

 sanatoria in process of erection, to cost $100,000 and $150,000 

 respectively, both maintained by tax, six private sanatoria, one 

 general hospital with a tuberculosis pavilion, four tuberculosis 

 clinics, and 45 public health nurses doing tuberculosis work. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in North Carolina in 1916 

 was 147.2. In 1920 it had declined to 116.5. 



The headquarters of the North Carolina Tuberculosis Asso- 

 ciation are at Sanatorium, North Carolina, and the executive 

 secretary is Dr. L. B. McBrayer. 



NORTH DAKOTA TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



The original stimulus for organization of the North Dakota 

 Anti-Tuberculosis Association came from a group of people who 

 had been interested in tuberculosis work at the International 

 Congress. 



In 1909 the North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis Association was 

 formed. Its first activity was to urge the establishment of a 

 state sanatorium, which was opened in 1911. The activity of 

 the state association has resulted since then in the expansion of 

 the state sanatorium to a bed capacity of 140, and in the estab- 

 lishment of two open-air schools and several open-window 

 rooms, and about 35 public health nurses. The traveling clinic 

 of the association is also a feature of its work. 



The original group of workers in North Dakota, as in most 

 states, was hardly a dozen people. Today the entire state is 

 aroused and active in the fight against tuberculosis. 



The headquarters of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Asso- 



