A Working Plan for Colored Antituberculosis Leagues

TREASURY DEPARTMENT Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States
A WORKING PLAN FOR COLORED ANTITUBERCULOSIS LEAGUES
BY C. P. WERTENBAKER Surgeon, United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service
WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1909


Reprint No. 39, from the Public Health Reports, Vol. XXIV, No. 36, September 3, 1909.
By C. P. Wertenbaker, Surgeon, United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
There was published in the Public Health Reports of May 28, 1909, Volume XXIV, No. 22, a plan for the organization of colored antituberculosis leagues, which contemplated the organization of a league in each State, with a branch in every colored church.
Experience has shown that after such leagues are formed difficulty arises in getting to work in an effective way, because the work is new in character and those engaged in it have had but little, if any, experience. It is to meet this difficulty and supply a practical guide for the work of the leagues that this is written.
The object of the state league is to organize the church leagues, to bind them together and render more effective their work. The caring for patients and work of a similar character are properly the function of the church leagues.