He spoke eloquently about the need for tuberculosis control:
	Tuberculosis.  We hang our heads in shame whenever asked what South Carolina is doing to prevent tuberculosis...We have repeatedly requested appropriations... for this cause, and as frequently have we been denied...never a day passes...that someone does not die of tuberculosis, and remember the average length of a case of tuberculosis is about two years...during that time millions upon millions of the germs have been thrown off, and thus the disease is spread....no other disease claims one-tenth of the toll...
	During the decade, the Board of Health grew to include a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1915 and a Bureau of Vital Statistics in 1915,  and a Division of Venereal Disease Control in 1918.