Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-04-12
Me. Anti-TuberculOsis
Meeting April IA, Bangor

A special meeting of the Maine
Anti tuberculosis Association and
probably the last meeting Of the as
ISOLATION to be held under that name,
has been called by it's president, DR..
E. D. Merrill Of Foxcroft, for
Wednesday, April IA, to be held at
Bangor. At this time action will be
taken on the proposal to re-organize
under the name of the Maine Public
Health Association, and new officers,
representative of every field of public
health work. in this State, will be
elected.
Under it's new name, the associa-
ton will continue it's active and eff
Gent campaign against tuberculosis
but will branch out into broader
fields of public health work, and find
new usefulness in combating disease
in every form. The resources at the
control of the present organization
will thus be used to give fullest help
and benefit to a broader health work
than the present important but more
limited field of tuberculosis.
In order that the new officers VINO
will be chosen following the re-or-
ganization, may be truly representa-
tive of the broad work which the
proposed Maine Public Health Asso-
citation is to undertake, nominating
committee in which figure the names
of several prominent health workers
in this State, are already going over
the field of eligible candidates. ON
the nominating committee are James
Q. Gulnac, representing the Maine
Chamber of Commerce and Agricul-
tural League, Mrs. w. E. Brewster OF
Dexter, president of the Maine Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, Capt.
James F. Bagley of Augusta, secre-
tary of the State board OF charities
and corrections. DR.. L. D. Bristol OF
Augusta, State commissioner of
health, and w. A. Harris, secretary
of the present Maine Anti-Tubercu-
losis Association This committee is
to meet at Bangor next Tuesday to
prepare its list of nominations.
To cooperate more closely with
the Maine Department of Health the
offices of the association have been
moved to Augusta and DR.. Harris,
with his clerical force, are already
installed in the capital city.
In calling the special meeting to
re-organize the association, Secre-
tary Harris says:
There has been more or less dis
cussion of the proposal during the
past several years and the executive
committee at its February meeting
voted in favor of the change. the
demand for a new and more COM
modious legal structure has grown
out of a number Of conditions.
Existing anti-tuberculosis asso-
Citations are rendering more or. less
general public health nursing service
which may be more advantageously
conducted and extended under a
name less limited in scope than the
present one.
Less sensitiveness will be felt by
many patients regarding visits from
a nurse if she carries a general class
ification rather than one attaching to
a particular illness.
Some agency or agencies must
and will devote efforts towards di-
minishing other diseases almost If
not quite as serious as tuberculosis.
In most communities, practically the
same persons will be chosen as lead
ers in promoting any new piece of
public health work. Less overlap
ping and fewer gaps will result if
one representative organization I'M
dertakes the promotion of non-gov-
ernmental features of the public
health program.
Financial support for a co-ordi-
mated program can be developed with
less confusion through one strong
agency than through several smaller
ones.