EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



195 



" (/) That each community should provide proper hospitals, dispensaries, 

 visiting nurses, etc., and care for its own people." 



WHEREAS, Hospital care of advanced cases of tuberculosis is essential to the 

 gradual reduction of the present incidence of this disease, and 



WHEREAS, Experience has shown that patients will not enter or remain in 

 institutions unless the surroundings are attractive and the care is of a higher 

 standard than now prevails, be it 



Resolved, That The National Association for the Study and Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis, in its advocacy of sufficient institutional provision for the ad- 

 vanced consumptive, emphasize the importance of proper care of these unfor- 

 tunate patients, including sufficient and efficient medical and nursing service, 

 as well as a proper diet, and, further, 



Resolved, That the Association indorses the efforts now being made by local 

 communities for the proper care of advanced cases, and approves of the ap- 

 pointment by the Board of Directors of a Committee to investigate the present 

 status of hospitals for advanced cases in this country and to formulate proper 

 standards for their construction and management. 



WHEREAS, Attention has been directed to the social and industrial causes of 

 tuberculosis, the relation of dusty trades and other occupational factors to the 

 morbidity and mortality from tuberculosis, and 



WHEREAS, The prevalence of special tuberculosis clinics affords an oppor- 

 tunity for the recording of valuable information as to these important factors, 

 therefore be it 



Resolved, That the Board of Directors of The National Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis be requested to appoint a special com- 

 mittee to consider the possibility of securing the adoption of uniform dis- 

 pensary records prepared with special reference to recording detailed data on 

 industrial and social factors, past and present, in the patient's history. 



WHEREAS, The double red cross has been used as the emblem of The Na- 

 tional Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis for several 

 years, having been adopted officially by said Association in 1906, and 



WHEREAS, No fixed standards as to form or dimensions of the double red 

 cross have ever been adopted by the Association, and 



WHEREAS, There has been considerable variation in the forms and dimen- 

 sions of the crosses used by the numerous anti-tuberculosis organizations in 

 the United States and elsewhere, be it 



Resolved, That the Board of Directors of The National Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis be requested to appoint a committee 

 to consider the various questions involved in the history, artistic appearance, 

 form, and proportions of the double red cross as the emblem of the anti-tuber- 

 culosis crusade in the United States, and that this Committee be directed to 

 report to the Board of Directors for such action as the Board may deem advis- 

 able. 



