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United States. In an interesting paper read before the Academy 

 of Medicine on December 19 of that year he gave a very complete 

 review of the work of that congress, and made some valuable sug- 

 gestions concerning prophylactic measures. At the International 

 Tuberculosis Congress in Washington in 1908 he was a vice- 

 president of the clinical section. 



In 1902 Dr. Janeway was one of the first to sign a call for the 

 formation of a local tuberculosis committee, which developed 

 into the permanent Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis 

 of the Charity Organization Society of New York city, on which 

 he served as one of the most faithful and active members during 

 the remainder of his life. He was one of the first to join The 

 National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tubercu- 

 losis, of which he became a director and member of the executive 

 committee in 1906 and president in 1909. He was also a member 

 of the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the State 

 Charities Aid Association from the time of its formation in 1907. 



Dr. Janeway always had the greatest sympathy for the con- 

 sumptive sufferer, and expressed on many occasions his belief in 

 the unwisdom of individual, state, or governmental phthisiopho- 

 bia. On one occasion, when he had heard that a refined and cul- 

 tured tuberculous invalid of English nationality, who had come to 

 visit the United States on some important family affair, was held 

 at Ellis Island because of the new regulation not permitting 

 tuberculous immigrants to land, he called the author's attention 

 to the injustice being done and asked his cooperation to obtain 

 the gentleman's admittance to the United States. He added his 

 humble efforts to Dr. Janeway's strong appeal to the authorities 

 in Washington, and the Englishman was finally permitted to enter 

 this country. 



Dr. Janeway was opposed to the unfortunate Goodsell-Bedell 

 law, which made the establishment of sanatoria in the state of 

 New York virtually impossible for a number of years, and, as a 

 member of the various tuberculosis committees, helped in its ulti- 

 mate repeal. He combated phthisiophobia, whether it originated 

 in the minds of statesmen, laymen, or physicians. He strongly 

 opposed the action of the State Board of Medical Examiners of 

 Oklahoma, whereby tuberculous but otherwise well-qualified 



