Builders of Health and Happiness: History of Tennessee Anti-Tuberculosis efforts 1952 Samuel Leonard Smith SIGNED ~ Tuberculosis Association

Title: Builders of Health and Happiness: The Story of the Tennessee Tuberculosis Association

Author: S. L. [Samuel Leonard] Smith

Description: Inscribed by author on ffep. Green cloth with gold lettering on front. Minor soiling on front cover. Dampstaining to the top margin on the three illustrated plates (not affecting the portraits), else generally clean. pp. xv, 60. Scarce.

A history of the Tennessee Tuberculosis Association and the state's organized tubercular relief efforts going back to 1886.

Contents:
- Early Background.
- Press Reports, 1908.
- Anti-Tuberculosis League Organized.
- Four Large City-County Organizations [Davidson, Hamilton, Knox and Shelby counties].
- Reorganization [1916].
- Health Education.
- Tuberculosis Among Negroes.
- Public Health and Nursing Education.
- State Tuberculosis Hospitals.

Inscribed by the author, Samuel Leonard Smith (1874-1956), to Forrest F. Reed, Director of the Davidson County Anti-Tuberculosis Board. Smith was well known as one of the nation's leading experts on rural education. He retired from education in 1947, but remained involved in numerous organizations, including the National Education Association, Tennessee Tuberculosis Association, and the Davidson County Anti-Tuberculosis Association.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good–

Publisher: The Tennessee Tuberculosis Association
Place: Nashville
Year: 1952

Keywords: history, tuberculosis, anti-tuberculosis, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, public health,