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sanatorium, I state sanatorium for tuberculous ex-service men, 2 

 county clinics, a summer camp, 2 open-air schools, and nearly 40 

 nurses working in whole or in part in the tuberculosis campaign. 

 The headquarters of the Oklahoma Public Health Association 

 are at 315 Oklahoman Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and 

 the acting secretary is Miss Helen M. Hastings. 



OREGON TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Out of the State Committee for the International Congress an 

 Oregon State Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- 

 culosis was formed in December, 1908. Like several similar or- 

 ganizations its existence was soon terminated because of lack of 

 funds. 



Even before 1908, the Portland Open Air Sanatorium for the 

 treatment of tuberculosis had been established in 1905. Dr. 

 Woods Hutchinson, who was State Health Officer of Oregon from 

 1903 to 1905, interested Mr. A. L. Mills of Portland and some 

 others in the establishment of a camp for tuberculosis patients. 

 Out of this plan developed the Portland Open Air Sanatorium, 

 the pioneer sanatorium in the entire Pacific Northwest. The in- 

 fluence of this institution has radiated far and wide in that part of 

 the United States. 



In 1909, the Visiting Nurses' Association of Portland estab- 

 lished a tuberculosis division and for nearly six years it served 

 as a pioneer, the only tuberculosis association in the entire state of 

 Oregon. 



For two or three years prior to 1915, the State Federation of 

 Women's Clubs had conducted a seal sale, and had carried on a 

 certain amount of tuberculosis relief work. In 1915 a state asso- 

 ciation was organized under the direction of the National Tuber- 

 culosis Association. The difficulties of finance delayed rapid 

 progress, but the association has steadily gone forward until in 

 1922 there are 16 local associations besides the original Visiting 

 Nurses' Association in Portland, a state tuberculosis hospital, 2 

 private tuberculosis hospitals, I clinic, I open-air school and 3 

 open-air classes, and 16 county public health nurses. The State 

 Association has also secured a Bureau of Public Health Nursing 

 in the State Board of Health. Too much cannot be said of the 



