CHAPTER LVIII 

 DONALD B. ARMSTRONG, M.D. 



SECOND ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



SINCE 1916 



DR. DONALD B. ARMSTRONG, our second assistant 

 secretary, was born on December 19, 1886, at Bangor, 

 Pa., and is the son of Elmer R. and Sadie Budd Arm- 

 strong. He received his preliminary education at the public school 

 of Easton, Pa., and Lerch's preparatory school of the same place, 

 and graduated from Lafayette College as Ph.B. in 1908. Four 

 years later he graduated from Columbia University as A.M. and 

 M.D., and in 1913 as M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



The positions which Dr. Armstrong has occupied since he left 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology show a wide range of 

 activity. He was superintendent of the Bureau of Public Health 

 and Hygiene of the New York Association for Improving the 

 Condition of the Poor from 1913 to 1914; director of the Depart- 

 ment of Social Welfare of the New York A.I.C.P. from 1914 to 

 1916; chairman of the Advisory Council, Department of Street 

 Cleaning, New York City, from 1913 to 1916; chairman of the 

 Committee on Sanitation, Advisory Council, Department of 

 Health, New York City, from 1913 to 1916; chairman of the 

 Committee on Food Supply, Borough President's Office, New 

 York City, from 1914 to 1915; lecturer at Teachers College, New 

 York, from 1915 to 1916; at the New York University Medical 

 School from 1914 to 1916, and at the College of the city of New 

 York from 1914 to 1915. At the meeting of the American Public 

 Health Association in 1916 Dr. Armstrong was chairman of the 

 Sociological Section. 



In 1916 he became assistant secretary of the National Tuber- 

 culosis Association and executive officer of the Framingham 



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