Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . nstant attention untilthe community is educated to understand its importance anddemands it. The members of the Associated Committees have been activeand successful in promoting the formation of voluntary anti-tuberculosis societies. In 1905 Boston, Cambridge, Springfieldand Worcester were the only cities in the State having societiesof this sort. During this year Dr. J. C. Pitta, a Portuguese physician ofNew Bedford, established an anti-tuberculosis society called thePortuguese League of Assistance to the Consumptives, amonghis fellow-countrymen in New Bedford.
Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . nstant attention untilthe community is educated to understand its importance anddemands it. The members of the Associated Committees have been activeand successful in promoting the formation of voluntary anti-tuberculosis societies. In 1905 Boston, Cambridge, Springfieldand Worcester were the only cities in the State having societiesof this sort. During this year Dr. J. C. Pitta, a Portuguese physician ofNew Bedford, established an anti-tuberculosis society called thePortuguese League of Assistance to the Consumptives, amonghis fellow-countrymen in New Bedford. Just prior to the formation of the committee in the MiddlesexNorth District Medical Society, in 1906, an anti-tuberculosis as-sociation was formed in Lowell, with the assistance of Mr. A. , the efficient secretary of the Boston Association. In 1906-07 anti-tuberculosis societies were formed under theauspices of the local committee of the Associated Committees inHaverhill, Salem, Holyoke/MValpole, Brookline, Brockton and. CABOT. 5 Fitchburg. Similar associations have been formed in Lawrence,Lynn, Northampton, Pittsfield and Clinton during the past year. Besides these associations in larger towns there are other placesin which smaller committees for anti-tuberculosis work have beenformed; physicians have started classes for the instruction oftuberculous patients, and visiting nurses have been taught andurged to give especial care in the oversight of their tuberculouscases. The local boards of health have been stimulated and sup-ported by the medical profession in carrying out preventive meas-ures. The first day-camp was inaugurated by the Boston Association,and proved so successful in economically dealing with the tuber-culous poor that the same treatment has been adopted in a numberof places, including Cambridge, Springfield, Lowell, Holyoke,Brookline, Fitchburg, New Bedford and Salem. These are some of the more tangible results already broughtabout or greatly aided by t
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