SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 261 



N. Y.; Mr. Julius Rosenwald, Chicago, 111.; Mr. Fred M. Stein, New York 

 City, N. Y.; Dr. Charles Stover, Amsterdam, N. Y.; Mrs. F. E. Whitley, 

 Webster City, Iowa. 



The report of the nominating committee was approved and the 

 names were forwarded for formal election to Portland, Me., 

 where the corporate meeting of the members of the National 

 Tuberculosis Association was held on Wednesday, June 15, at 

 12 o'clock noon, and the directors were duly and legally elected. 



Over 1,000 persons were registered at the meeting and a con- 

 siderable number who attended were not registered. 



The Clinical Section held three meetings and the Pathological 

 Section two meetings. A combined session of the Clinical and 

 Pathological Sections was also held. The Advisory Council held 

 one session, the Sociological Section three sessions, the Nursing 

 Section two sessions. There was also a combined session of the 

 Sociological and Nursing Sections. Under the direction of the 

 local committee on arrangements several unique features were 

 provided, among which were an exhibit, a demonstration by the 

 health clown, "Humpty Dumpty," and a pageant, "The Spirit of 

 the Double-Barred Cross." 



The following committee on resolutions was appointed by the 

 president: Dr. George M. Kober, Washington, D. C., chairman; 

 Dr. Philip King Brown, San Francisco; Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, 

 Boston; Dr. E. R. Baldwin, Saranac Lake; Dr. J. W. Pettit, 

 Ottawa, 111. 



On behalf of the committee on resolutions, Dr. George M. 

 Kober, chairman, presented the following resolutions with the 

 endorsement of the committee. Each of the resolutions was 

 adopted unanimously. 



WHEREAS, The National Tuberculosis Association has always been deeply 

 concerned with the subject of medical education in tuberculosis, and 



WHEREAS, The movement for the inauguration of special departments of 

 tuberculosis has as yet been taken up by very few of our medical schools, and 



WHEREAS, We regard the spread of this movement as of vital importance to 

 the future development of all tuberculosis work, be it therefore 



Resolved, First, that the medical schools of our country be urged to take 

 special account in the development of their curricula of the necessity for the 

 establishment of such departments. 



Second, that in the question of the location of new sanatoria due considera- 



