

NINTH ANNUAL MEETING 201 



specific cure for tuberculosis has been discovered which deserves the confidence 

 of the medical profession or of the people, and 



Resolved, That it is the duty of the public to continue unabated all the 

 present well-tried agencies for the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. 



At the business meeting of the Association the following were 

 unanimously elected directors of the Association for terms of five 

 years: Frederic Almy, Buffalo; Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, New 

 York; Severance Burrage, Indianapolis; Dr. George H. Evans, 

 San Francisco; Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, Philadelphia; Lee K. 

 Frankel, New York; Dr. Herbert Maxon King, Liberty; Miss 

 Julia Lathrop, Washington; Charles P. Neill, New York; Dr. 

 W. S. Rankin, Raleigh; Dr. M. P. Ravenel, Madison, Wis.; 

 Rt. Rev. F. S. Spalding, Salt Lake City. 



The following resolution was reported favorably by the com- 

 mittee on resolutions and was unanimously adopted by the Asso- 

 ciation : 



Resolved, That The National Association for the Study and Prevention 

 of Tuberculosis recommend to the United States House of Representatives 

 that it appoint from its body a Committee on Public Health. 



The special committee on the form of the double-barred red 

 cross through its chairman, Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, presented 

 a report. The recommendations of the committee were unani- 

 mously adopted. 



At a meeting of the board of directors, held on Friday after- 

 noon, May 9, the following officers were unanimously elected for 

 the ensuing year: Dr. John H. Lowman, Cleveland, president; 

 Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Washington, and Dr. Theodore B. 

 Sachs, Chicago, vice-presidents; Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, 

 Baltimore, secretary; William H. Baldwin, Washington, treas- 

 urer. 



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. Charles J. Hatfield, Philadelphia; Dr. George M. 

 Kober, Washington ; Dr. Walter R. Steiner, Hartford ; Dr. Wil- 

 liam Charles White, Pittsburgh. 



