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investigation of the prevalence of tuberculosis in some of the 

 crowded quarters of the city, particularly in the districts where 

 the Jewish population was in evidence. These studies, among 

 the first of their kind, gave Dr. Sachs considerable prominence 

 at the International Congress on Tuberculosis in 1908, and won 

 for him special honorable mention from the jury of awards. 



Dr. Sachs was greatly interested in the Chicago Tuberculosis 

 Institute, which he helped to call into life, and of which he re- 

 mained one of the most active and representative workers. He 

 served as president of the Institute from January, 1913, until his 

 death. He was one of the most ardent advocates of the routine 

 examinations of employees of large establishments. His advice 

 and example in this respect have since been followed by many 

 corporations and large business concerns throughout the country. 

 It was largely due to Dr. Sachs' influence that Mrs. Keith Spald- 

 ing donated the funds for the Edward Sanatorium at Naperville, 

 of which institution he became the director and physician in 

 chief. Besides his activities in the Edward Sanatorium he was 

 attached to the Chicago Winfield Sanatorium, the West Side Dis- 

 pensary, and the Chicago Municipal Sanitarium. Concerning 

 his interest in the latter, Dr. Philip P. Jacobs says : 



"Of all the many activities in which he engaged, however, none claimed so 

 large a share of Dr. Sachs' personality and skill as the Chicago Municipal 

 Tuberculosis Sanitarium. In a very real sense the Sanitarium was and is 

 Dr. Sachs. It breathes his personality and his genius from almost every ward 

 and brick. Into it he put his very body and soul. He was active in the pas- 

 sage of the Glackin Law, which made the sanatorium possible. He was a 

 prime mover in the monstrous referendum campaign when hundreds of thou- 

 sands of people voted 'yes' for the municipal sanatorium. He was the chair- 

 man of the Building Committee which secured the site and conceived the 

 sanatorium long before a brick or a stone had been laid, putting into this effort 

 thousands of dollars' worth of time and sacrifice, and countless miles of travel 

 to visit the best institutions that the world provided. Later he became presi- 

 dent of the board and its chief administrative director. While the sanatorium 

 was in construction he spent hours daily at no little sacrifice to his practice, 

 and gave of himself unstintedly to see that the people of Chicago should have 

 an institution which would be both of service for the purpose for which it was 

 constructed and which would not squander one dollar of the people's money." 



In the spring of 1915 a new administration came into office in 



