LIVINGSTON FARRAND, M.D. 407 



the nine years from 1905 to 1914, during which time Dr. Farrand 

 devoted his best energies to the tuberculosis movement in the 

 United States, bears eloquent testimony to his devotion to our 

 cause. When Dr. Farrand began his activities as executive secre- 

 tary of the Association the latter had a membership of less than 

 500. In 1905 there were in the United States 32 tuberculosis 

 associations, societies, and committees, 24 tuberculosis dispen- 

 saries, and 96 sanatoria and special hospitals. In the year 1914 

 the membership of the Association had grown to 2,256; there 

 were 1,200 associations, 400 dispensaries, 550 sanatoria and spe- 

 cial hospitals, and 250 open-air schools. 



Such executive ability and such knowledge of the methods of 

 combating tuberculosis as Dr. Farrand possessed could not have 

 remained unutilized during the great World War, and it was but 

 natural that when the Rockefeller Foundation decided to help 

 tuberculosis-stricken France, Dr. Farrand should be chosen to 

 head the Commission sent to that country to help in an effective 

 an ti- tuberculosis campaign. Dr. Farrand speaks in a modest way 

 about the work in a letter to the author, saying : 



"The most definitely constructive piece of work I have ever been engaged 

 in, aside from the development of the general tuberculosis work in this country, 

 was the campaign in France in 1917-18-19. The essential point in that cam- 

 paign was that we were able to gather the results of the work done in different 

 places in America during the last fifteen or twenty years and apply them in 

 concentrated form in a country aroused by the war to a realization of its peril 

 from the point of view of tuberculosis. In other words, we were able to start 

 model equipments in certain selected places in France which were in many 

 ways more completely worked out than anything we have in operation in this 

 country. It is too soon yet to predict results, but I believe the campaign was 

 soundly laid and that the ultimate results will be not only great but obvious." 



The French medical profession and the French government 

 appreciated fully Dr. Farrand 's invaluable work and the French 

 government bestowed upon him the decoration of an officer of 

 the Legion of Honor. Another great honor was in store for him 

 on his return to this country when he was made chairman of the 

 Central Committee of the American Red Cross. Dr. Farrand 

 had a very high and patriotic conception of the organization over 

 whose destinies he was called to preside. In the Red Cross 



