FOUNDATION THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS IN THE UNITED STATES INCLUDING A DIRECTORY OF INSTITUTIONS DEALING WITH TUBERCULOSIS IN COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS PRESS OF WM. F. FELL COMPANY 1309 A 2N34 1908 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Sanatoria, Hospitals, and Day Camps for the Treatment of Tuberculosis in the United States and Canada,... Hospitals for the Insane Making Special Provision for their Tuberculous 51127 INTRODUCTION The development of the anti-tuberculosis activity in the United States during the last ten years has been so rapid and the extension of its field so varied that the need of a comprehensive survey of the work is obvious. A similar situation was met in 1904 by the appearance of the "Directory of Institutions Dealing wth Tuberculosis" compiled by Miss Lilian Brandt and published by the New York Charity Organization Society in coöperation with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The present volume includes a revision of that Directory as an important section of its contents. As in the case of its predecessor, every effort has been made to exclude all private institutions of undesirable character, but inclusion is not to be understood as a recommendation or indorsement. The meeting of the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington, with the consequent focusing of attention upon the campaign against the disease in this country, affords a favorable opportunity for reviewing in detail the achievements of the past few years, and the National Association now presents this volume. The book has been made possible through the generous coöperation of the Russell Sage Foundation, which has supplied the necessary funds for its preparation and publication. The National Association welcomes the opportunity of expressing its grateful appreciation of the Foundation's assistance, not only in this, but in other lines of its work. The campaign in the United States is usually dated, and with justice, from the foundation in 1885 of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake by Dr. Edward L. Trudeau. This practical application of the therapeutic and pathological discoveries in various quarters in Europe has served both as a stimulus and a model for the public and |