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The headquarters of the Philippine Islands Anti-Tuberculosis 

 Society are in the Fajard Building, Manila, Philippine Islands, 

 and the secretary is Dr. Antonio Hernandez. 



ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE OF PORTO RICO 



As in the Philippine Islands, the activities of the United States 

 Public Health Service furnished the indirect inspiration for the 

 establishment of an association. In the spring of 1906 the Anti- 

 Tuberculosis League of Porto Rico was formed. Its chief purpose 

 was the establishment of a sanatorium which was opened in 1907 

 at San Juan. There are now two sanatoria, providing 75 beds. 



The interest of the League, unlike that in the Philippine Islands, 

 however, has been centered largely on institutional care. 



During its early years, with a small government subsidy, a small 

 amount of educational work was carried on throughout the island, 

 but within recent years the League has had practically no terri- 

 torial program. An effort is now being made to reorganize the 

 League. 



RHODE ISLAND TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 

 Before a state association was formed in Rhode Island, active 

 anti-tuberculosis work had been started in Newport with the 

 formation of the Newport Association for the Relief and Control 

 of Tuberculosis. Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, of Baltimore, who 

 was one of the founders of the National Tuberculosis Associa- 

 tion, was largely instrumental in the establishment of this local 

 organization in Rhode Island. At the time of the formation of 

 the National Association, in 1904, it was one of the few local 

 associations in the entire country that had a paid executive 

 secretary. 



The Rhode Island Anti-Tuberculosis Association was formed 

 in the fall of 1907, and since that date has had an enviable repu- 

 tation as a state-wide organization. The activity of a group 

 of physicians, largely in Providence, was responsible for the 

 formation of the state association. 



Definite legislation on tuberculosis in Rhode Island dates back 

 to 1894, when an act was passed authorizing the State Board of 

 Health to investigate the causes and prevention of tuberculosis, 



