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10. Payment in Whole or Part for Maintenance of Patients in Hospitals or 

 Sanatoria, when efforts to secure funds therefor from relatives, employers, 

 churches, lodges, or the public or other private relief agencies prove unavailing. 



11. After-Care: i. e., advice, employment, and, if need be, relief of patients 

 leaving sanatoria as arrested or cured. 



12. Relief, of whatever medical or material form may be needed (so far 

 as efforts to procure it from other private or public sources, as set forth in 

 No. 10 above, prove unavailing), for families in which there is a case of tubercu- 

 losis which cannot be placed in a hospital, provided that through definite medi- 

 cal nursing and social supervision conditions are maintained which will prevent 

 further infections. 



13. Relief (so far as it is not available from private or public sources, as set 

 forth in No. 10 above) which may be needed to enable a patient who is a bread- 

 winner or a caretaker of a family to accept hospital care. 



We recommend: 



1. That the report of the committee on a circular of advice as to policy in 

 the use of Red Cross Seal funds, appointed in January last, be adopted. 



2. That this Association recommend to the American Red Cross the adop- 

 tion of the Committee's report as its definition of anti-tuberculosis work, in 

 place of the existing definition. 



3. That the National Association recommend to the State Associations and 

 to local associations through State Associations, where such exist, the adoption 

 of the program of work outlined in this Committee's report, with any modifica- 

 tion called for by local conditions, in the expenditure of Red Cross Seal funds 

 and any further available resources. 



4. That the National Association secure annually from State Associations 

 and from local associations through State Associations, where such exist, a 

 financial statement, so far as practicable, for the year ending November I, of 

 the expenditure of their funds; subdivided so far as may be practicable on the 

 lines indicated by the purposes enumerated in this report. 



5. That a circular letter of explanation be framed to be addressed to the 

 State Associations and local associations and through State Associations ampli- 

 fying the Committee's report and dealing more fully with the relation between 

 agencies and tuberculosis associations. 



The Red Cross Seal banners awarded in the inter-city and inter- 

 state competition for 1916 were presented to the following states 

 and cities: Wyoming, Minnesota, and New York; and Thorn- 

 burg, Pa.; Hershey, Pa.; River Falls, Wis.; Sewickley, Pa.; 

 Morristown, N. J.; Elmira, N. Y.; Troy, N. Y.; Rochester, 

 N. Y.; Buffalo, N. Y.; and Brooklyn, N. Y. 



At a meeting of the board of directors held on the afternoon of 

 Thursday, May 10, the following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: Dr. Charles L. Minor, North Carolina, president; 



