Reprint No. 39, from the Public Health Reports, Vol. XXIV, No. 36,
September 3, 1909.
By C. P. WERTENBAKER, Surgeon, United States Public Health and
Marine-Hospital Service.
There was published in the Public Health Reports of May 28, 1909, Volume
XXIV, No. 22, a plan for the organization of colored antituberculosis
leagues, which contemplated the organization of a league in each State,
with a branch in every colored church.
Experience has shown that after such leagues are formed difficulty
arises in getting to work in an effective way, because the work is
new in character and those engaged in it have had but little, if any,
experience. It is to meet this difficulty and supply a practical guide
for the work of the leagues that this is written.