CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS. 
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48 to 56 beds for women. The buildings have three stories and 
basements. Later on it is intended to construct a third house, 
which will permit of the patients being inoreased to the num¬ 
ber of 102 to no men, and of 54 to 63 women. The payment 
will be 2 francs per day. 
Up to the present day this is all that has been done in Den¬ 
mark in the way of constructing sanatoria. On the part of 
physicians, however, much energetic work has been done in 
this direction. In 1898 the Association of Danish Physicians 
presented a petition, supported by an address signed by 200,000 
of the population, to the Government and to the National 
Assembly, having as an object the construction of sanatoria for 
consumptives, as well as the founding of hospital establish¬ 
ments and the supply of aid to the families of patients. For 
this purpose they demanded the nomination of a commission, 
and the relief organizations in cases of sickness have, in 1900, 
presented an address, supported by 250,000 signatures, request¬ 
ing the establishment of three State Sanatoria. On grounds of 
expense, the Government have not ventured to include this 
item on their budget. 
On January 19th, 1901, at the instigation of M. Rordam, 
chief physician of the 1st class, and deputy ; also of M. Karl 
Loventsen, doctor of medicine and editor of the Danish journal 
of hygiene, The National Ueague to combat Tuberculosis was 
founded. The league was received with great enthusiasm on 
the part of political personages of the highest distinction, phy¬ 
sicians, civil servants, and financiers. The minimum annual 
subscription is three francs, and the League now numbers 10,000 
members, this giving an annual income of 100,000 francs. The 
Prefect of the Municipality of Copenhagen is President of the 
Alliance, and the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the 
Vice-President, the Deputy, Mr. Roerdam, are the Directors of 
the Committee of Operations. The aims of the Alliance are 
the establishment of popular sanatoria for the poor, public lec¬ 
tures to enlighten people as to the nature of tuberculosis, and 
the giving relief to the families of patients. The League is di¬ 
vided into twenty-five sub-sections, with local administration. 
In the course of the summer noted physicians, as well as polit¬ 
ical men, will hold a hundred meetings throughout the country 
for the purpose of giving information as to tuberculosis, and 
making collections for the League. The Alliance has its office 
at 63, Gothersgade, Copenhagen. 
In 1898, there appeared, at the expense of the Treasury, a 
