EDWARD THOMAS DEVINE, PH.D., LL.D. 



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National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1906, chair- 

 man of the Section of Hygienic, Social, Industrial, and Economic 

 Aspects of Tuberculosis of the International Congress on Tuber- 

 culosis in Washington in 1908. In 1909 he was elected vice- 

 president of the National Tuberculosis Association. He has 

 served on many commissions for the improvement of prison 

 conditions, industrial relations, etc., and has been especially 

 interested in the social aspect of the tuberculosis problem. 



The author of this history is greatly indebted to him for the 

 help extended in 1902 in the formation of a local tuberculosis com- 

 mittee. When the appeal for such a committee was shown him 

 bearing the signatures of eleven leading physicians, Dr. Devine 

 at once offered his services and became its first lay member and 

 secretary. The valuable work which that committee did is re- 

 ferred to in the historical part of this book. Dr. Devine was 

 equally helpful in the formation of the National Tuberculosis 

 Association in 1904. He was a member of the Association's first 

 executive committee and was largely responsible for raising the 

 initial funds that made possible the selection of Dr. Livingston 

 Farrand as executive secretary in January, 1905. 



As secretary of the New York Committee on the Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis, and as editor of the Survey, Dr. Devine has written 

 many interesting articles and circulars, which, unfortunately, 

 never bore his signature, and for this reason we are deprived of a 

 tuberculosis bibliography of this distinguished leader in the anti- 

 tuberculosis crusade. 



Dr. Devine has become world famous as a leader and organizer 

 in social relief work. The National Tuberculosis Association 

 may congratulate itself that he has been and still is one of its 

 most enthusiastic workers in the combat of the social causes of 

 tuberculosis. 



Among his published works which bear on the tuberculosis 

 problem we must not fail to mention here his valuable contri- 

 butions, entitled "Misery and Its Causes," 1909; "The Family 

 and Social Work," 1912; "Disabled Soldiers and Sailors," 1919. 



