CHAPTER LXVI 

 G. WALTER HOLDEN, M.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQII TO 



1912 



DR. G. WALTER HOLDEN was born at Barre, Mass., 

 September 17, 1866. His parents were James E. and 

 Harriet A. Wheelock Holden. He received his pre- 

 liminary education at the Mount Hermon Academy, Northfield, 

 Mass., and graduated as Doctor of Medicine of the University of 

 Vermont in 1895. Dr. Holden was in general practice in North 

 Brookfield, Mass., from 1896 to 1898, and at Denver, Colo., 

 from 1898 to 1904, when he became director of the Agnes Memo- 

 rial Sanatorium. As such he has been identified nationally and 

 internationally with anti-tuberculosis work since 1907, when he 

 was elected a member of the International Tuberculosis Con- 

 ference. In April, 1908, he formed the Colorado State Organiza- 

 tion of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, which was 

 held from September 21 to October 12 of that year in Washington, 

 D. C. Among the exhibits sent by the Colorado State Organiza- 

 tion to this International Congress was one submitted by Dr. 

 Holden of new architectural plans for a sanatorium for the treat- 

 ment of curable cases of tuberculosis among the working classes. 

 This exhibit was awarded a silver medal. 



The Colorado State Organization became a permanent organiza- 

 tion in 1908, with Dr. Holden as its first president. On retiring 

 from this office in 1912 he was made an honorary life member and 

 is still the only member of the Colorado Association to hold this 

 title. He has continued his interest and constant assistance in the 

 anti-tuberculosis work in Colorado, as a member of the executive 

 committee both of the Colorado Tuberculosis Association and of 

 the Denver Anti-Tuberculosis Society, which latter was organized 

 in October, 1917. 



Dr. Holden has also been closely connected with the work of the 



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