Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from E.O. Otis, 308, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Otis writes that among the men already interviewed, there does not seem to be a strong desire for a new Society for the Study of Tuberculosis. However, Otis would like to continue with the project. He writes of Dr. White, a young physician working on the prevalence of Tuberculosis.
Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Clark Bell, Medico-Legal Society, Office of the Secretary, 39 Broadway, New York, New Work, USA. Invitation to the Congress on Tuberculosis of the Medico-Legal Society. Professor Keyes and Dr. J. Mount Bleyer will be among the presenters.
Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Clark Bell, Medico-Legal Society, New York, New York, England. Arrangements for Flick's presentation at the Congress on Tuberculosis, to be held under the auspices of the Medico-Legal Society on February 21, 1900.
Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Clark Bell, Medico-Legal Society, New York, New York, USA. Clark writes that it is now too late to withdraw names from the program for the Congress on Tuberculosis. He advises Flick to enroll for the Congress whether he plans to attend or not.
Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Sigmund Adolphus Knopf, New York, New York, USA. Knopf would like to meet with Flick while he is in New York for the Congress on Tuberculosis. He urges Flick to visit the Tenement-house Exhibition.
Letter to William Porter from Lawrence F. Flick, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Flick informs Porter that it was decided at the recent meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee to from a United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis. He reports on the success of the meeting, despite the absence of Trudeau, who was kept away by his wife's illness. Most men agree that Trudeau should be named as the first President of their new Society.
Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Henry Barton Jacobs, 11, West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Minutes of the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee. Jacobs provides a list of physicians who attended the meeting at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia to discuss the formation of a national society for the study of Tuberculosis. During the meeting, over which Osler presided, it was decided that a United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis be organized.
Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler remarks that Flick finally got his way at the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee. Osler writes about the proposed new Journal of Tuberculosis, for which he would like to secure the support of the Phipps Institute. He feels it should be an independent organization, supported by the societies and the men involved in Tuberculosis work.
Letter to William Osler from Lawrence F. Flick, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Flick is confident that Osler will be satisfied with the results of the recent meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee when the United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis is fully organized. Flick is worried about raising the necessary funds to sustain a new Journal of Tuberculosis.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from Lawrence F. Flick, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Flick thanks Jacobs for sending the memorandum of the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee. He looks forward to future meetings and a speedy development of their plans.