34 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 6

SANATORIUM FOR TUBERCULAR COLORED PEOPLE.

This problem came to the front in a conference which met
in Annapolis in January, 1915. Subsequently, a State-wide
commission was created to study and make recommendations
concerning the control of Tuberculosis among negroes. A sub-
committee formed by that commission had made a careful
study of the problem, whose report, in part, is substantially
as follows:

"It is hardly necessary to lay emphasis upon the preva-
lence of tuberculosis in Maryland and the economic loss
its incidence entails. The cost of those measures which are
directed toward the control of this infection, is equiva-
lent to a very small part of the annual loss from untimely
death and prolonged incapacity from tuberculosis. Still,
from our knowledge of the disease, and more pointedly
from actual experience, we are assured that such an out-
lay is doubly repaid the State, by the restored earning
capacity of the afflicted, without regard to the income de-
rived from those spared the infection through the efficacy
of anti-tuberculosis measures. Nor need we dwell upon
the fertility of the negro population in our State as a soil
for maintaining and spreading tuberculosis. All statis-
tics show that the disease is particularly prevalent among
them, and since they enter in close contact with the white
people of the State, they are potent channels of infection,
not only for their families and neighbors, but for their
employers as well: An anti-tuberculosis campaign to be
effectual must, therefore, be directed against the strong-
hold of the disease. "

"It must be evident, even to lay intelligence, that there
are only two ways in which tuberculosis can be controlled,
namely:

"1. To cure the infection after it has become mani-
fest;

"2. To prevent the occurrence of infection, or at
least of manifest disease. "