Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . r sleeping provisions fora few cases. Indigent persons may obtain attendance of the cityphysician in their homes. The District Nursing Association alsodoes all in its power to assist patients in their homes. FITCHBURG. The Fitchburg Society for the Control and Cure of Tuberculo-sis. President, Mr. Alvah Crocker; Secretary, Miss Susan M.Turner, 145 Main Street. An exhibition was held in December, 1907. The relief work iscarried on by a visiting nurse. A registration map is planned for,in order that the location of the patients shall be fully known.The principal b
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Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . r sleeping provisions fora few cases. Indigent persons may obtain attendance of the cityphysician in their homes. The District Nursing Association alsodoes all in its power to assist patients in their homes. FITCHBURG. The Fitchburg Society for the Control and Cure of Tuberculo-sis. President, Mr. Alvah Crocker; Secretary, Miss Susan M.Turner, 145 Main Street. An exhibition was held in December, 1907. The relief work iscarried on by a visiting nurse. A registration map is planned for, in order that the location of the patients shall be fully known.The principal branches of work are along instructive and prevent-ive lines. Every member of the family is examined where thereis or has been a case of tuberculosis. The Board of Health hasbeen urged to do more thorough fumigating and to more carefullyinspect the sanitary condition of houses, and also to furnish tem-porary aid for indigent cases. The program for further activityis to have a day-camp and free clinic for adults and children. The. STONE KREUSI. 151 society aids indigent persons to pay their board in a sanatoriumwhere that treatment is desired, and furnishes milk, eggs, awnings, chairs, etc., to needy patients not accepted at Rutland who areobliged to take out-door treatment at home. The society co-operates with the Associated Charities and the Board of Health, gives medicine, obtains proper clothing, furnishes oil, sputumflasks (through the Board of Health), paper napkins and bags.One patient has been boarded in the country. HAVERHILL. The Haverhill Association for the Relief and Control of Tuber-culosis; organized in April, 1907. President, I. J. Clarke, M.D.;Secretary, Frank H. Coffin, M.D., 112 Emerson Street. Haverhill has a flourishing society of about seven hundred andfifty members. The educational work has been carried out by thedistribution of anti-tuberculosis literature to all the homes of thecity, and -is being still further extended to the factories. Anexhibit with publ