The Association carried 544 patients with tuberculosis and 1180 patients who had been exposed to tuberculosis. The Home Economics Department has a force of workers. The dietitians plan diets, teach value of budgets, teach buying, preparation, and care of food. The Visiting Housekeepers help keep the home in order, prepare the meals, wash baby clothes, care for the children while the mother goes to the doctor or takes the children for treatment. The length of visit is from two to four hours and the charge is 35 cents an hour.
Free service is given to families unable to pay.
Hourly Nursing, carried for a year by the Central Registry for Nurses, was taken over by the Association in November. Extra nurses have been employed so that the Hourly Service will not take the nurses from those who need the care but are unable to pay.