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appropriations for continuing and extending in the District of Columbia these 

 opportunities for healthful open-air exercise and play. 



Resolved, That we urge upon municipalities a study of housing conditions 

 with special reference to tenement and cheap lodging houses and urge a vigorous 

 effort to improve congested districts, believing that such improvement will 

 decrease the tuberculosis death-rate. 



At a meeting of the board of directors held on Tuesday after- 

 noon, May 3, the following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, president; Dr. George 

 Dock, St. Louis, and Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, vice- 

 presidents; Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, secretary; 

 General George M. Sternberg, Washington, treasurer. 



The following directors were elected to serve on the executive 

 committee for the ensuing year: William H. Baldwin, Washing- 

 ton; Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, New York; Homer Folks, New 

 York; Dr. John N. Hurty, Indianapolis; Dr. Edward G. Jane- 

 way, New York; Dr. George M. Kober, Washington ; Dr. Joseph 

 Walsh, Philadelphia. 



Following the meeting of the Advisory Council on the evening 

 of May 2, Dr. William Charles White, of Pittsburgh, was unani- 

 mously elected chairman of the Advisory Council for the next 

 annual meeting. 



The summarized report of the Treasurer, Gen. George M. 

 Sternberg, is as follows: 



Balance on hand April 30, 1909 $4,268.64 



Receipts 24,948.76 



Disbursements 28,696.26 



Balance on hand April 30, 1910 $521.14 



At the meeting of the Association in 1910, there was reported a 

 membership of 2,107. The number of anti-tuberculosis associa- 

 tions was 297 ; dispensaries 222 ; sanatoria and special hospitals 

 298, with a capacity of over 15,000 beds. This marvelous gain 

 has to be ascribed to the interest which was aroused in the move- 

 ment by the International Tuberculosis Congress which was held 

 in Washington in 1908. 



