CHAPTER XI 

 FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 



THE first annual meeting of The National Association for 

 the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis was held in 

 Washington, D. C., May 18 and 19, 1905. The sessions 

 were held at the New Willard Hotel, the headquarters of the Asso- 

 ciation, the local arrangements being in the hands of a committee 

 consisting of Dr. George M. Kober, chairman, Dr. D. Percy 

 Hickling and Dr. William C. Woodward. 



The following list of officers and directors held office at this 

 meeting: 



President, Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, Saranac Lake; vice-presidents, Dr. 

 William Osier, Baltimore, Md.,and Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, New York, N. Y.; 

 treasurer, Dr. George M. Sternberg, Washington, D. C.; secretary, Dr. Henry 

 Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, Md.; directors, Dr. Norman Bridge, Los Angeles, 

 Cal.; Dr. S. E. Solly, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Dr. John P. C. Foster, New 

 Haven, Conn.; Dr. George M. Sternberg, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Arnold C. 

 Klebs, Chicago, 111.; Dr. Robert H. Babcock, Chicago, 111.; Dr. John N. Hurty, 

 Indianapolis, Ind.; Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. William Osier, 

 Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. John S. Fulton, 

 Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Henry M. Bracken, St. Paul, Minn.; Dr. William Porter, 

 St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. Edward O. Otis, Boston, Mass.; Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, 

 Boston, Mass.; Mr. Frederick L. Hoffman, Newark, N. J.; Dr. S. Adolphus 

 Knopf, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Mr. 

 Edward T. Devine, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Charles L. Minor, Asheville, N. C.; 

 Dr. Charles O. Probst, Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; Dr. Mazyck P. Ravenel, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Howard S. Anders, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.; Dr. Leonard Pearson, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. M. M. Smith, Austin, 

 Texas; Maj. George E. Bushnell, M.D., Fort Bayard, N. M.; Gen. Walter 

 Wyman, M.D., Washington, D. C. 



Executive secretary, Dr. Livingston Farrand. 



In preparing the program the executive committee had pro- 

 vided for three sections; a sociological, a clinical and climatolog- 

 ical, and a pathological and bacteriological. Each of these sec- 



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