TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING 219 



WHEREAS, The Senate Joint Resolution number 120, introduced into the 

 United States Congress on April n, 1916, makes it unlawful for any officer or 

 employee of the Public Health Service of the Federal Government to be or 

 become a member or officer of, or in any way connected with, any medical or 

 private health association or organization of any kind, and 



WHEREAS, In the opinion of The National Association for the Study and 

 Prevention of Tuberculosis the spirit of said resolution is opposed to the aims 

 and objects for which the Association was formed, and its passage would seri- 

 ously interfere with the progress of the anti-tuberculosis movement in the 

 United States, therefore be it 



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

 Tuberculosis records its absolute disapproval of said resolution and urges its 

 members to take such steps as may be proper to prevent its adoption by the 

 United States Congress. 



WHEREAS, In the past the tendency of general hospitals has been to exclude 

 cases of tuberculosis, and 



WHEREAS, It has been demonstrated in a number of such institutions that 

 this class of cases may be admitted into separate wards without detriment to 

 other patients, and 



WHEREAS, Both for humanitarian reasons and for purposes of instruction, 

 there is need for a change of policy in this regard, therefore be it 



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

 Tuberculosis recommends to general hospitals, through both their medical and 

 lay boards, that separate wards, one for each sex, be established for the care 

 of such cases. 



The report of the Committee on Nursing Education was re- 

 ceived and accepted with thanks to the Committee for their labor 

 upon it. 



At a special meeting held on the afternoon of May 12 the report 

 of the Committee on Standards of Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuber- 

 culosis in Children was discussed and referred back to the com- 

 mittee for further consideration. 



At a meeting of the board of directors, held on Friday, May 12, 

 the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr. 

 Edward R. Baldwin, New York, president; Hon. Theodore 

 Roosevelt, New York, and Sir William Osier, Oxford, honorary 

 vice-presidents; Dr. Watson S. Rankin, North Carolina, and 

 Dr. James Alexander Miller, New York, vice-presidents; Dr. 

 Henry Barton Jacobs, Maryland, secretary; Mr. William H. 

 Baldwin, District of Columbia, treasurer. 



