The Northern Ohio Lung Association (f. 1904), originally known as the Anti-Tuberculosis League, was active in the fight against tuberculosis in the Cleveland, Ohio, area before expanding its work to encompass other respiratory diseases. It promoted research into the nature and cause of tuberculosis and worked to educate the public about the disease's threat to health. The league provided medical service through several dispensaries and mobile X-ray clinics. The league found itself in the midst of controversy in 1962 when the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce denounced its fundraising methods, and the Health Fund pressured the League to join them. The League resisted, and in fact, its fundraising was successful enough to attract the attention of other major cities' tuberculosis fundraising groups. Following 1968, the number of cases of TB in Greater Cleveland steadily declined, and in 1973, after broadening its range of interests, the group became the Northern Ohio Lung Association.
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From the guide to the Northern Ohio Lung Association Records, 1905-1976, (Western Reserve Historical Society)
