REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 



The American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant 

 Mortality ends its first year with an enrollment of 500 including 

 3 life members, 10 sustaining members, and 33 affiliated societies. 

 Thirty-two States, the District of Columbia and Canada are 

 represented in the membership lists, the greatest concentration 

 being in the Eastern States and especially in the cities in which 

 organized preventive undertakings are under way. 



The Association is a direct result of the Conference on Pre- 

 vention of Infant Mortality, held by the American Academy of 

 Medicine at Yale University, November 10 and 11, 1909. It 

 was organized at the close of that conference, at a specially 

 called meeting, held at L/ampson Hall, Yale University, Novem- 

 ber 13, 1909. Headquarters were established in Baltimore, and 

 the executive office was opened January 3, 1910. 



The work of the year has been directed along three lines the 

 collection of information in regard to conditions in this country ; 

 the exchange and distribution of such information; the stimula- 

 tion and extension of an enlightened interest in the extent of 

 the preventable infant mortality in the United States, and the 

 possibility of reducing it. This has been made possible by the 

 cordial co-operation of the affiliated membership, and of other 

 undertakings, public and private. 



The educational campaign has been carried on by means of 

 circulars and press bulletins, issued at intervals during the year. 

 Material has also been supplied to persons who were preparing 

 reports or special articles on some phase of the problem, for 

 magazines or other publications. Through the courtesy of the 

 Associated Press and other press services advance abstracts of 

 the papers to be read at the annual meeting, have been distri- 

 buted to the newspapers throughout the country. The number 

 of copies asked for by each service is as follows : 



Associated Press 900 



United Press 450 



International News Service 200 



Early in the year, in response to requests for definite sugges- 

 tions for preventive work a pamphlet was prepared with the 

 assistance of the committee on nurses associations and social 

 workers. Five thousand two hundred and thirty-one copies of 

 the circular were distributed, and an especially promising fea- 

 ture of this part of the work was the use made of the pamphlet 



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