

TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING 217 



V. Hamman, Maryland; Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Maryland; 

 H. McK. Jones, Missouri; Dr. George M. Kober, District of 

 Columbia; R. B. Mellon, Pennsylvania; Dr. A. K. Stone, Massa- 

 chusetts; Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Michigan. 



Mr. William H. Baldwin, chairman of the committee on resolu- 

 tions, presented the following resolutions with the endorsement of 

 the committee. They were unanimously adopted by the general 

 meeting : 



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

 Tuberculosis express its hearty appreciation of the generous proposition of the 

 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to contribute $100,000 for conducting a 

 community experiment in the control of tuberculosis. 



In undertaking this trust the Association hopes that the results of the experi- 

 ment may be commensurate with the desires which inspired the offer. 



WHEREAS, The Prudential Insurance Company of America has recently 

 issued an elaborate statistical treatise on the mortality from cancer throughout 

 the world, in the furtherance of the cause of cancer control, under the auspices 

 of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society for 

 the Control of Cancer; and 



WHEREAS, A corresponding treatise on the mortality from tuberculosis 

 throughout the world, with a due consideration of the various medical and 

 sociological aspects of the tuberculosis problem, would aid materially all those 

 who throughout the country are engaged in the study and prevention of tuber- 

 culosis; and 



WHEREAS, Heretofore no collective study of tuberculosis statistics of this 

 world-wide problem in preventive medicine has been made, either under the 

 direction of government or private enterprise; be it 



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

 Tuberculosis, in annual meeting assembled, that it be respectfully suggested to 

 the president and board of directors of the Prudential Insurance Company of 

 America that the said Company cause to be prepared, and make available for 

 gratuitous distribution to those interested in the subject, a work on the mor- 

 tality from tuberculosis throughout the world corresponding to the recently 

 issued volume on the mortality from cancer; and be it further 



Resolved, That the Association desires to place on record its appreciation of 

 the active interest on the part of the Prudential in the campaign against tuber- 

 culosis. 



WHEREAS, The death of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, the physician, 

 philanthropist, scientist, and first president of the Association, removes from 

 us the leader in the sanatorium movement in America, one of the founders of 

 this body, and an exponent of humanitarian principles of the highest order, and 



