Abstract
<h3>ANNUAL CONGRESS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, HOSPITALS AND LICENSURE</h3> Thirty-First Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, Feb. 18 and 19, 1935 (Continued from page 1249) Dr. Merritte W. Ireland, Washington, D. C., in the Chair February 18—Afternoon <h3>TUBERCULOSIS: INSTITUTIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS</h3> Objectives of the Campaign Against Tuberculosis Dr. Kendall Emerson, New York: With the founding of the Trudeau Sanatorium fifty years ago there was planted the seed of a sturdy tree, which has since spread its protecting branches over the lives of thousands of patients, at the same time removing from contact with their susceptible neighbors an equal number of foci each capable of indefinitely spreading the disease. With therapeutic aid in abeyance, with the initial step in handling any infectious disease, segregation, already under way, the first decade of the twentieth century offered the opportunity to gird our loins for a grapple with the leading cause of human mortality. Our
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