CHAPTER XII 

 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 



THE second annual meeting of The National Association for 

 The Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis was held at the 

 New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., Wednesday, Thurs- 

 day, and Friday, May 16, 17, and 18, 1906. 



In preparing the program the executive committee had pro- 

 vided for two new sections, a Surgical section and one on Tuber- 

 culosis in Children, in addition to the three previously existing. 

 Each of the older sections held two sessions and the newly formed 

 sections one each. 



In the absence of Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, the president of the 

 Association, Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, vice-president, occupied the 

 chair. The opening meeting on the evening of May 16 was a joint 

 session of the National Association with the Association of 

 American Physicians, at which the president of the latter society, 

 Dr. Frank Billings, presided, the address on that occasion being 

 by Dr. Simon Flexner, of New York. 



At the business meeting of the Association, held on the evening 

 of May 17, following the vice-presidential address of Dr. Flick, 

 the six directors whose terms of office expired by limitation were 

 reflected, namely, Drs. H. M. Bracken, Minnesota; W. S. Carter, 

 Texas; Henry Barton Jacobs, Maryland; E. O. Otis, Massa- 

 chusetts; Edward L. Trudeau, New York; and William H. 

 Welch, Maryland. 



By the amendment to the by-laws providing for the enlarge- 

 ment of the board of directors to 60, the following new directors 

 were nominated by the board and elected by the Association : Mr. 

 Redfield Proctor, Jr., Vermont; W. T. Sedgwick, Massachusetts; 

 Rowland G. Hazard, Rhode Island; Homer Folks, New York; 

 Dr. Walter B. James, New York; Dr. Edward G. Janeway, New 

 York; Dr. Alfred Meyer, New York; John Seely Ward, Jr., 



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