Twenty state agencies and organizations have joined together to form the Louisiana Council on Tuberculosis, which met for the first time at the Jung hotel.
Co-ordinated by the Louisiana Tuberculosis Association, the council has as its chairman, Dr. John Bobear, of the Louisiana State university medical school faculty.
- Purpose of the organization, which will convene again for a one-day session quarterly with October as the period for its next meeting, is to serve as a forum and council for the co-ordination of services and programs designed to bring about the eventual eradication of tuberculosis.
Organizations and their representatives forming the council include: Louisiana state board of health, Dr. Ben Freedman, Dr. Andrew Hedmeg, Dr. John Bruce, Lillian Jeffers, R. N., M. E. Kos-sack, MPH, and Anna Harrison, and Sarah Crane, social workers; Louisiana state department of public welfare, Dr. J. D. Martin, Neddie O'Moore Roberts; Veter-j ans Administration hospitals, Dr. Morton Brown, and Dr. R. E. Pleune; Louisiana Academy of General Practice, Dr. Boyd M. Woodard; Louisiana State Nurses' 2 Association, Miss James Constance Allen; Tulane university school of medicine, Dr. Margaret H. D. Smith; Louisiana State university school of medicine, Dr. Bobear; Louisiana state department of education, division of vocational rehabilitation, Seid1 Hendrix and W. S. Hubbs; Green-well Springs Tuberculosis hospital, Dr. Dwight S. Dahburg; Lafayette TB Annex, Dr. George Skin-; ner; Louisiana Thoracic Society, Dr. John Walsh, and Dr. W. A. Cherry; Louisiana Patient Services Council, James E. Elkins; Tuberculosis Association of Greater New Orleans, Miss Marietta Rocquet; New Orleans health department, Dr. Maurice Campag-na and Miss Anna Amann, R. N.; Dibert Memorial hospital (Charity TB), Sister Stanislaus; Louisiana Public Health Association,
A. G. Owens; Louisiana Tuberculosis Association, Dr. C. A. Wag-genspack, Dr. W. W. Coulter Jr., Richard McCarthy, Dr. Sydney Jacobs, and W. Findley Raymond, co-ordinator for the council.
