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National Tuberculosis Association. He was a director from 1910 

 to 1915, holding the office of vice-president from 1911 to 1912. 

 In 1912 he also represented the National Association at the 

 Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, 

 held at Washington, D. C., in September. In this same year he 

 was appointed United States official delegate to the Seventh Inter- 

 national Congress on Tuberculosis held at Rome in April, 1912. 

 He was again elected a director of the National Tuberculosis 

 Association in June of 1921 to represent the State of Colorado. 



During the war Dr. Holden was a member both of the executive 

 committee and the ways and means committee of the Denver 

 Chapter of the Red Cross and has served constantly on these com- 

 mittees ever since. He gave much time in 1918 to the organiza- 

 tion of first aid and home nursing classes. For several months of 

 this same year he served as chairman of the Medical Advisory 

 Board, examining chests of drafted men several mornings a week. 

 During the World War he was appointed a captain of the Medical 

 Corps, United States Army, and stationed at General Hospital 21, 

 near Denver. 



Notwithstanding these many services so generously given, Dr. 

 Holden still supervised the work at the Agnes Memorial Sana- 

 torium, an institution of 150 beds, and held it unswervingly to the 

 same high standards which he has always maintained. He has 

 been superintendent and medical director of this institution since 

 it was planned. In preparation for the building of the Agnes 

 Memorial, Dr. Holden visited all the important tuberculosis sana- 

 toria of Europe and, on his return in 1903, superintended the 

 building and equipping of this now justly famous sanatorium. 



From the very beginning of his work as a sanatorium director, 

 Dr. Holden doubted the wisdom of excessive feeding of patients 

 which was in vogue in the early days in many European and also 

 in some American sanatoria. Six meals a day was the accepted 

 custom. While he continued this method of "stuffing" with 

 half of his patients he allowed the other half only three meals a 

 day. At the end of three months the latter group had made 

 better gains in weight, had better appetites, and slept better. 

 Dr. Holden was also one of the early advocates of rest before and 

 after each meal. 



