Reviewing the table “First Admission to the Sanatorium”, it 
     
     is noted that despite the low-death rate, the number of first ad- 
     
     missions has not decreased nearly so rapidly. Tuberculosis has been 
     
     more of a “crippler” than a “killer”. 
     
    

    
     In the current Tuberculin and X-Ray Survey, conducted on a 
     
     Province-wide basis, words cannot adequately express the tremend- 
     
     ous assistance given by members of the Women’s Institutes through— 
     
     out the province. 
     
    

    
     Since 1959, some 1,300 voluntary workers have been involved 
     
     in these surveys, with the result that an opportunity was given the 
     
     Health Department and the P.E.I. Tuberculosis League to eminate 
     
     Public Health Education among our populace, and best of all, 25 of 
     
     our citizens who were discovered to have disease in the treatable 
     
     stage and practically all of these have been returned to their homes 
     
     as happy and useful citizens. 
     
    

    
     I never cease to marvel at the support that we receive from 
     
     Women’s Institutes all over the Island, and I well know of the power- 
     
     fill potential of your Organization in matters pertaining to Public 
     
    

    
     ea t . 
     
    

    
     At the present time, our staff consists of Dr. E. M. Found as 
     
     Director of Tuberculosis Control and Medical Superintendent of the 
     
     Sanatorium; Dr. W. R. Stewart, Director of Out-Patient Clinic and 
     
     Assistant Medical Superintendent; Dr. Paul Cudmore, Part-Time 
     
     Physician; and Dr. Todor Genc‘heff, Orthopedic Surgeon. 
     
    

    
     In addition, we have 17 consultants on our staff, as well as a 
     
     Business Manager, a Director of Nursing, 3. Full-time qualified Dietit- 
     
     ian, a Laboratory Technician, a Housekeeper, and two x—ray technic- 
     
     ians. 
     
    

    
     At an executive board meeting of the P.E.I. W.I. it was de~ 
     
     cided to place a tablet in the Sanatorium commemorating the work of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Institutes in sponsoring this great movement. 
     
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     DISTRICT CONVENTIONS 
     
    
   
   
    
     As the Institutes grew in numbers, it became impossible for 
     
     the Supervisor and her Assistant to personally visit each Institute 
     
     every year, as they had been doing. This personal contact, which in- 
     
     volved demonstrations in many phases of home-making, was con- 
     
     sidered a necessary and vital part of Institute work. And so, in 1928 
     
     the District Conventions were “born” (the first being held in Card- 
     
     igan). The conventions organized, eight in number, were so success- 
     
     ful that it was not long before the whole Island had been divided into 
     
     30 Convention Areas, each of which holds an annual Convention, 
     
     with its own officers and an executive of two members from each 
     
     Institute in the area. All W.I. members are expected to attend. 
     
    

    
     Besides providing the medium for the personal visit of the 
     
     Supervisor, these Conventions promote a deeper interest in the or- 
     
     ganization, give the Branches an oppoortunity to discuss their 
     
     peculiar problems and topics of community betterment —-— in short 
     
    
   
   
    
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