The campaign against tuberculosis in the United States : including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada ; compiled under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis / by Philip P. Jacobs.

  • Jacobs, Philip P. (Philip Peter), 1879-1940.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The campaign against tuberculosis in the United States : including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada ; compiled under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis / by Philip P. Jacobs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    private foundations for the treatment of tuberculosis which have since appeared on every hand. The growth of the movement for sanatorium establishment is strik- ingly shown in the following pages. Since the modest beginning at Saranac, these institutions have sprung up in all parts of the United States, until there are now nearly two hundred and fifty special sanatoria or hospitals, and the announcement of provision for a new public or private institution is of almost daily occurrence. For various reasons it has been the sanatorium, with its promise of restoration of patients to wage-earning capacity, that has appealed with effective force to legislators as well as to private philanthropy. The still more important fields of the dispensary and the hospital for ad- vanced cases, with their peculiar educational and preventive influences, have not, until the last two years, attracted the attention they deserved. Even now it is only the dispensary which has come into prominence, and the provision for advanced and hopeless cases remains the distressing lack in our equipment against the disease. A glance at the statistical summary of dispensary foundations will show that of one hundred and fifty-eight in existence at this writing, one hundred and twenty-three have been established during the past nineteen months, and the near future will doubtless see these facilities for early diagnosis and preventive education flourishing in practically every center of population in the country. The recognition of the fundamental importance of adequate provision for advanced cases, with the consequent diminution of possible centers of infection, is by no means so general. The active campaigns of educa- tion, however, which are now progressing in so many States under competent leadership, invariably demand this increase of special hospital facilities as an essential feature in their programs, and there seems no reason to doubt that results as promising as those in the sanatorium and dispensary fields will soon be forthcoming. On the official side, the activity against tuberculosis may be said to date from 1894, when the Department of Health of New York City, after a period of preliminary study and observation lasting for seven years, adopted a series of resolutions designed to assist in its aims for the suppression of the disease. The most vital of these resolutions