Evening star., 1941-01-30
Medical Body Hears
DC. Official Criticize
tuberculosis Group
Reorganization Plans
Under Way; DR.. Coulter
Hits Division Of Expenses

Steps to reorganize the District
Of Columbia tuberculosis Associa-
ton were under way today after
sharp criticism leveled at it by DR..
A. Barkley Coulter, director of the
Bureau of tuberculosis of the Dis
trict Health Department.
Plans to revise the association
were announced yesterday prior to
a speech by DR.. Coulter last night
before the Medical Society of the
District of Columbia at one of its
regular meetings.
DR.. Coulter charged that large
percentage of the associations funds
were spent for salaries and admin
istrative expenses. He asked the
Medical Society, however, to reserve
Judgment on the case until the tu-
berculosis group has had chance
to "straighten out its affairs DR..
Coulter emphasized he was speak
ing As a private physician and not
In his capacity as a health Off
cial
DR.. ]. Winthrop Peabody, preSi-
dent of the association, told the
Medical Society that the reorgani-
zation has been ordered as the re-
suit of a years study under his
presidency. He made no prediction
as to what the result of the inveSti-
CATION would be.
Another speaker at the society's
meeting, DR.. Frank Walton Burge
of Philadelphia, urged physicians to
watch expenditure of charity dol
lars"
Chairman of the special commit
tee appointed to reorganize the Tu-
berculosis Association is Ross Gar
rett, Health Security Administration
chief, who is treasurer of the asso-
citation.
Il am not defending nor accusing
the ASSOCIATION of anything" said
Mr. Garrett in an interview today.
Il stepped in as mediator to try
to bring some order out of appar-
emily what is confusion on both
sides"
Hearings will be conducted by the
investigating committee, Mr.. Gar
rett said, and program will be de-
veloped for the reorganization.
Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing
director of the ASSOCIATION, who DR..
Coulter said last night receives
salary of $4,000 a year plus travelling
expenses and other funds, was i'll
and could not be reached for COM
ment.
Announcement of the reorganiza-
ton followed a special meeting of
the associations Board of Directors.
Mr. Garrett will be assisted by Dr..
Watson w. Aldridge, chief medical
officer of st. Elizabeth's Hospital,
and Willard c. Smith, secretary of
the Health Security Administration
DR.. Peabody said Mr. CARROTS
committee would have two duties:
To see that all funds raised by
the sale of Christmas seals are
carefully conserved and expended
for the greatest possible good to the
community and the authority to
carry into effect whatever changes
In the present program of the asso-
citation it finds necessary.
Dr.. Peabody told the Medical So
ciety last night ''it is easy to allow
Interest in and appreciation of the
efforts of those who are paid workers
in our charitable organizations to
result in the accumulation of too
much pay roll.
This, we, who are in responsible
positions in charitable organizations
must steel ourselves against as its
results, when unchecked, in unfair
ness to the giver of the charity dol
lar and impoverishes the results
which they have a just right to ex-
pect.'
DR.. Coulter's charges against the
association were read as discussion
on DR.. Burgess address, of which he
had had an advance copy.
DR.. Coulter went into detail on
the spending of the money obtained
from the sale of Christmas seals