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There are now three county hospitals and three other tuberculosis 

 sanatoria with a total number of 465 beds. There are five tuber- 

 culosis dispensaries and 15 others furnishing opportunity for 

 diagnosis. There are three open-air schools and over 50 public 

 health nurses. 



The State Association works in close cooperation with the 

 Peabody College for Teachers, and has been influential, through 

 that institution, in developing public health instruction for nurses 

 and others. 



In 1920 the State Association formed the Tennessee Colored 

 Anti-Tuberculosis Society which has, since that time, been doing 

 valuable educational work among the Negroes throughout the 

 state. 



The new county hospital at Memphis (The Oakdale Memorial 

 Sanatorium) and the Pine Breeze Sanatorium at Chattanooga, a 

 semi-private institution for local patients, are two of the finest 

 institutions of their type in the south. 



The death rate from tuberculosis in Tennessee was 199.1 in 

 1917 and 164.6 in 1920. 



The headquarters of the Tennessee Anti-Tuberculosis Associa- 

 tion are at 309 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, and the ex- 

 ecutive secretary is Mr. James P. Kranz. 



TEXAS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 

 Out of the state committee for the International Congress the 

 Texas Anti-Tuberculosis Association was formed in the fall of 

 1908, with headquarters at Austin. For about four years the as- 

 sociation did little or no active work. In 1912 an executive secre- 

 tary was secured and the first attempt at a state-wide campaign 

 against tuberculosis was begun. A county hospital law was 

 passed at the instance of the organization in 1913. 



In 1917 the work was reorganized under the name of the Texas 

 Public Health Association. Since that date the association has 

 conducted a broad educational campaign on tuberculosis and 

 public health and has succeeded in organizing many of the larger 

 local centers in this, the largest state of the union. The difficul- 

 ties of organization in Texas may be visualized when one considers 

 that it takes 36 hours to travel from El Paso to Austin. 



