150 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



On recommendation of the Committee on Resolutions also, an 

 invitation from the Italian Ambassador, Baron Des Planches, to 

 hold the next International Congress in Rome in 1911, was ac- 

 cepted. At the closing session brief addresses were given by 

 representatives of practically all of the foreign countries, and in 

 addition by His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the 

 Congress, and President of the United States; Dr. Lawrence F. 

 Flick, chairman of the General Committee; and the Honorable 

 Henry B. MacFarland, president of the Commissioners of the 

 District of Columbia. 



The report of the treasurer of the Congress shows that the 

 entire amount collected by the General Committee amounted 

 to $102,841.35. The total expenditures were approximately 

 $150,000, as originally estimated by Dr. Flick. The National 

 Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis was 

 relieved of the entire responsibility for raising and distributing 

 this sum, and except for a few hundred dollars, was not obliged 

 to expend any of its comparatively limited resources on the 

 Congress itself. This fact enabled the Association to reap the 

 utmost benefit from the Congress without any direct financial 

 burden. 



Of the influence of the Sixth International Congress on Tuber- 

 culosis work much might be written. It has proved unquestion- 

 ably to be the most significant milestone in the progress of this 

 great movement in the United States. 



The educational and organization campaign centering around 

 the preparation for the Congress paved the way for the develop- 

 ment of state and local associations throughout the entire coun- 

 try. The state committees in many instances became the nuclei 

 around which permanent state associations were later formed. 

 The individuals interested in the Congress from various local com- 

 munities in turn received from the Congress itself such an inspira- 

 tion that hundreds of them immediately began to develop com- 

 munity effort in their respective towns and cities. The extensive 

 education that the publicity preceding and during the Congress 

 afforded laid the foundation for much of the later constructive 

 development in the tuberculosis campaign. 



The conclusions reached by the Congress, both as evidenced in 



