248 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



On motion duly made and carried, the following committee on 

 resolutions was appointed by the president : Dr. Gerald B. Webb, 

 Colorado Springs, chairman; Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, New York; 

 Dr. Philip King Brown, San Francisco; Dr. W. L. Dunn, Ashe- 

 ville; Dr. Josephine Milligan, Jacksonville, 111. 



Over 800 persons were registered at the meeting, and it is esti- 

 mated that there was a considerable number who were not 

 registered. 



The Clinical Section held two meetings and the Pathological 

 Section one meeting. Two combined sessions of the Clinical and 

 Pathological Sections were also held. The Advisory Council held 

 one session, the Sociological Section three sessions, and the 

 Nursing Section one session. On Friday evening, under the 

 auspices of the local committee of arrangements and the Missouri 

 Tuberculosis Association, a reception and Modern Health 

 Crusader program was given. 



On behalf of the committee on resolutions, Dr. Gerald B. Webb, 

 chairman, presented the following resolutions with the endorse- 

 ment of the committee. Each of the resolutions was adopted 

 unanimously: 



WHEREAS, In the death of Sir William Osier, Bart., the National Tuberculosis 

 Association has suffered the loss of its first Honorary Vice- President and the 

 three English-speaking countries, Canada, America, and England, a most dis- 

 tinguished physician, medical teacher, and anti-tuberculosis worker; and 



WHEREAS, This Association is indebted to the late Sir William Osier for hav- 

 ing been one of the prime movers in its formation and in no small measure re- 

 sponsible for its success from the beginning until now; and 



WHEREAS, His interest in our Association was unabated even throughout the 

 years of his sojourn as Regius Professor in Oxford; and 



WHEREAS, By his wisdom, devotion, high ideal, and love for humanity he 

 not only labored among physicians for a better understanding of the medical 

 problems of tuberculosis but also labored untiringly for the improvements of the 

 social conditions responsible for the spread of tuberculosis, and always took a 

 special interest in the care of the consumptive poor, and during the World War 

 in the medical and sanitary care of the British and Allied armies; and 



WHEREAS, Sir William Osier, by his lovable personality, his genial spirit, ven- 

 eration for his teachers, friendship for his colleagues, love for his pupils, great 

 diagnostic skill, and devotion to his patients, endeared himself to thousands of 

 American physicians and patients; be it 



Resolved, That this Association record these attributes with the full con- 

 sciousness of the profound debt it owes to the memory of Sir William Osier and 



