American Lung Association Jobs in and around Cincinnati, OH

In 1901, about one in four Ohioans were affected in some way by Tuberculosis.  At that time, Dr. Charles O. Probst, Director of the Ohio State Board of Health, called together a group of about 80 people to form a state-wide society for the purpose of eradicating TB.  The organization founded over 100 years ago was the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and it grew very rapidly to over 300 members in the first few days.  During the first decade of the organizations existence, the focus was on building hospitals and TB education, following on the findings of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who discovered that rest and recuperation in clean air, with good food and rest was an effective treatment of the disease.  In many parts of Ohio, you may still see some buildings which had once been used as "Sanitariums," as the treatment facilities were known.