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corps, repeated routine examination and observation of recruits while in train- 

 ing and mobilization camps for the purpose of detecting any obscure tuber- 

 culous lesions; 



b. To utilize and enlarge the existing sanatoria and hospitals of our country 

 so that all cases of tuberculosis arising in our forces may be adequately cared 

 for as near as possible to their own homes; 



c. To work out in cooperation with existing health authorities a definite, 

 comprehensive, and constructive program for adequate prevention and control 

 of tuberculosis among the whole population. 



WHEREAS, A large number of public health nurses have already enrolled or 

 are being urged to enroll in the active service of the American Red Cross and 

 other agencies for nursing work during the war; and 



WHEREAS, The Red Cross and other bedside nursing can be done as well by 

 the regular graduate and undergraduate nurses as by those who have had 

 special training in public health work, while we have no substitutes available 

 for the latter; and 



WHEREAS, Our national efficiency, depending as it does upon our national 

 health, demands of each of us that we give our services where they will be of the 

 widest benefit rather than follow our personal inclinations therefore, be it 



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

 Tuberculosis urges upon all public health nurses, and particularly upon those 

 who have had special training in tuberculosis work, that they can best serve 

 our country in its present crisis by continuing, for the present at least, to 

 employ their energies with the complicated health problems of our various 

 communities. 



WHEREAS, The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- 

 culosis has an organization extending throughout every State of the Union 

 which is thoroughly conversant with health conditions and philanthropic 

 activities, and 



WHEREAS, The American Red Cross is confronted with the immense task 

 of coordinating the health and philanthropic activities throughout the country; 

 be it 



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

 Tuberculosis offers to the president of the American Red Cross the services of 

 its organization for cooperation in promoting Red Cross work in any form that 

 may be determined upon. 



WHEREAS, Several of the European countries engaged in the great war have 

 found it desirable to place themselves on a prohibition basis; and 



WHEREAS, We wish to neglect nothing that will make for the general good 

 of the service; and 



WHEREAS, Our loyalty in such time of stress should lead us to ask nothing 

 of those going to the front which those remaining are not willing to demand of 

 themselves; therefore, be it 

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