424 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



Model Tenement Houses in New York. In 1903 the Phipps 

 Institute was opened with 52 beds and with laboratories, dispen- 

 saries, and full facilities for research and clinical observation. For 

 several years Dr. Flick remained Director of the Institute until, in 

 1910, it was turned over to the University of Pennsylvania. 



Shortly after the formation of the Henry Phipps Institute the 

 discussion regarding a national association in the United States 

 began to grow intense. As early as 1898 Dr. Flick, in corre- 

 spondence with Dr. Otis, Dr. Bowditch, Dr. Knopf, and others, 

 had discussed with them the possibilities of a national association 

 in this country. In 1892 he had formed the Pennsylvania Society 

 for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, the first organized society of 

 its type in the world. In cooperation with Dr. Edward L. 

 Trudeau, Dr. William Osier, Dr. William H. Welch, General 

 Sternberg, Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Dr. Charles L. Minor, Dr. 

 M. P. Ravenel, Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, Dr. S. A. Knopf, and 

 others, he helped to organize The National Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis which was formed in 1904. 



In 1905 he took a leading part in arranging for bringing to this 

 country the International Congress on Tuberculosis and was 

 made the chairman of the Central Committee of the Congress. 

 He devised the plan for financing the Congress and was most 

 active in raising the funds which made the gathering possible. 

 The success of this gathering in 1908 is due largely to his hard and 

 painstaking endeavor, as well as to his far-seeing vision, a fact 

 which has been suitably acknowledged by the members of the 

 Central Committee and the Board of Directors of the National 

 Association. 



In his own community and state Dr. Flick has been the origina- 

 tor of almost every line of work against tuberculosis that is now 

 in operation; in the national organization he has been a leader 

 and potent factor; internationally he is recognized as one of the 

 pioneers in the world-wide anti-tuberculosis campaign. 



Dr. Flick published a popular book on tuberculosis in the sum- 

 mer of 1903. It was called "Consumption, a Curable and Pre- 

 ventable Disease What the Layman Should Know About It." 

 An abbreviated edition of this book was also published later. 

 Both have had a very wide and continuous sale since that date. 





