CHAPTER LVI 

 CHARLES J. HATFIELD, M.D. 



EXECUTIVE SECRETARY AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCU- 

 LOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM 1914 



CHARLES JAMES HATFIELD, son of Daniel Keyser and 

 Margaret Alexander Hatfield, was born January 23, 1867, 

 in Philadelphia. He received his preliminary education at 

 the Hill School at Pottstown, Pa. He was graduated with the 

 degree of A.B. from Princeton in 1888, with the degree of A.M. 

 from the same university in 1891, and took the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1900. He took 

 post-graduate courses in medicine at the universities of Gottingen 

 in 1901 and of Vienna in 1902. 



On his return to the United States in 1903 he established him- 

 self in general practice in Philadelphia. Intensely interested in 

 tuberculosis work, and identified with the tuberculosis movement 

 in his own state and city, he became a member of the medical 

 staff and later (in 1912) was chosen executive director of the 

 Henry Phipps Institute for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- 

 culosis. He is a visiting physician to the White Haven Sanatorium 

 for the tuberculous, a Fellow of the College of Physicians of 

 Philadelphia, member of the American Medical Association and 

 of the Clinical and Climatological Society, and a director of the 

 American Public Health Association. During the organization of 

 the Sixth International Congress Dr. Hatfield had the difficult 

 position of chairman of the Committee of Awards. The work of 

 this committee extended over several years and was completed to 

 the general satisfaction of the exhibitors. 



Dr. Hatfield has been a member of the board and of the execu- 

 tive committee of the National Tuberculosis Association for many 

 years, and with the retirement of Dr. Farrand as executive secre- 

 tary he was unanimously elected to this office. His title as execu- 



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