SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 263 



Resolved, That the local tuberculosis associations throughout the country be 

 urged to inaugurate immediately a campaign of publicity, which will give the 

 people of their respective localities the true facts of the situation, and will de- 

 velop in all parts of the country that educated public opinion, the lack of 

 which has been largely responsible for the present unfortunate situation. 



Resolved, That the National Tuberculosis Association approves the prin- 

 ciples involved in sheltered training and employment for the tuberculous, and 

 the necessity for providing various forms of sheltered employment as a nec- 

 essary and important factor in the management of the tuberculosis problem. 



In view of the various existing means for providing such sheltered employ- 

 ment and the extension of these ideas into the consideration of various plans 

 for industrial and agricultural settlements by governmental and non-govern- 

 mental agencies, the National Tuberculosis Association invites the attention of 

 these agencies to the large amount of data gathered by its Committee on Farm 

 Colonies and Industrial Communities for the Tuberculous, which the executive 

 office is directed to place at the disposal of all of those interested in the problem. 



It is the sense of the National Association that the many difficulties, objec- 

 tions and criticisms of proposals for agricultural and industrial settlements 

 demand a most careful and continued study of all the medical, economic and 

 political factors involved, and it desires to express its interest in the elaboration 

 of these proposals; and therefore directs the continuation of this Committee, 

 to prepare and present at the next annual meeting a complete digest of the 

 information that it gathers. 



WHEREAS, The admission of immigrants with tuberculosis has provided our 

 state and municipal institutions with a large number of cases of pulmonary 

 tuberculosis because of the absence of a physical examination on entrance into 

 this country, and 



WHEREAS, These immigrants with tuberculosis create a social and economic 

 problem which is likely to be greater and more important during the present 

 period of depression in Europe, therefore be it 



Resolved, That the National Tuberculosis Association in conference assem- 

 bled ask that the United States Public Health Service detail medical examiners 

 especially trained in tuberculosis work to be stationed at ports of debarkation 

 and further that steamship companies be encouraged to protect themselves 

 from the burden of returning such cases by some type of examination or health 

 certificate at port of embarkation. 



WHEREAS, The National Tuberculosis Association has lost by death Major 

 General William Crawford Gorgas, U. S. A., Honorary Vice- President, there- 

 fore be it 



Resolved, First, that this Association commemorates the great services of 

 General Gorgas as a sanitarian whose worldwide activities have resulted in the 

 practical elimination of one of the worst scourges of mankind, yellow fever, 

 and in the successful combating of other communicable diseases. 



Second, That it deplores the loss of this great man, this good friend and 



