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ciation are in the Tribune Building, Bismarck, North Dakota, 

 and the executive secretary is Miss Carrie Haugen. 



OHIO PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 



The Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, formed in 

 the fall of 1901, is, next to the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Tuberculosis, the earliest state association still in ex- 

 istence. 



In 1902 a state commission was formed which presented a report 

 to the legislature and was discharged from office in 1903. 



The original Ohio Society existed for a number of years without 

 a very active program. In the fall of 1908 it was reorganized on 

 a firmer financial basis and has since that time been a leader in the 

 development of the tuberculosis and public health program in the 

 state of Ohio. 



In 1911 the Society was incorporated. 



In 1920 it was entirely reorganized under the name of Ohio 

 Public Health Association. 



In Ohio, largely as a result of the activity of the state associa- 

 tion, the tuberculosis campaign has developed intensively in most 

 parts of the state. There are 12 district sanatoria serving practi- 

 cally all of the populous counties of the state. In addition there 

 are 51 clinics, 20 camps, 650 public health nurses most of whom 

 do tuberculosis work, and 69 local associations. 



Among the principal achievements of the Ohio Association have 

 been the establishment of the Ohio State Sanatorium, the passage 

 of the county and district hospital law and the subsequent estab- 

 lishment of institutions, the establishment of a Division of Tuber- 

 culosis in the State Department of Health, the first in the United 

 States, a very remarkable development in public health nursing, 

 the establishment of a department of public health and sanitation 

 in the state university, the reorganization of the state and local 

 health departments of the state and the subsequent increase in 

 the number of full-time local health officers, and the general devel- 

 opment of the program along broad public health lines. 



The death rate in Ohio has shown an interesting decline from 

 150.8 in 1910 to 102.8 in 1920. 



The headquarters of the Ohio Public Health Association are at 



