126 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



orphanage. One of the first attempts in training undergraduate 

 nurses in tuberculosis was made at the hospital of the League. 



The death-rate from tuberculosis in Pittsburgh in 1908 was 

 146.2 and in 1920 was 120.0. 



The headquarters of the Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh 

 are at Bedford and Wandless Streets. The medical director 

 is Dr. William Charles White, and the superintendent, Miss 

 Alice E. Stewart. 



PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY 



At a meeting of the Philippine Islands Medical Association, 

 in the spring of 1908, a committee consisting of Dr. Richard P. 

 Strong, now with the League of Red Cross Societies, and Dr. 

 Harry T. Marshall, now Dean of the University of Virginia, was 

 appointed to confer with the National Tuberculosis Association 

 relative to the possibilities of cooperation in an educational cam- 

 paign in the Islands. Out of the work of this committee grew the 

 Philippine Islands An ti -Tuberculosis Society formed in 1910. 

 The Society was fortunate in securing close cooperation and pa- 

 tronage of the United States Public Health Service, and for sev- 

 eral years was actively directed by Dr. Victor G. Heiser, now with 

 the International Health Board. The unusually high caliber 

 of medical men connected with the association in its initial stages 

 has given it a firm foundation. 



In recent years the general direction and supervision of the 

 Society has been largely under native auspices. The tuberculosis 

 work is subsidized from government sources, and is also supported 

 in part from voluntary contributions. Christmas seals have been 

 sold in the Philippine Islands for several years past. 



The general plan of campaign now being employed covers prac- 

 tically all of the approved methods used in continental United 

 States. 



In 1920 the Society showed its progressive interest by sending 

 Dr. Carmelo Penaflor, one of the members of its staff, to this 

 country for a period of study. 



At the present time there are in the Philippine Islands four insti- 

 tutions for the care of the tuberculous, with a combined bed capa- 

 city of 285, and ten tuberculosis despensaries. 



