Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-10-14
THE CONSERVATIVE SANITARium.

The people of Santa Fe must decid
whether or not they desire the govern
ment reservation and buildings turned
into sanitarium for consum ptives be
fore congress oonvenes in December
The American Invalid Aid society hat
been busily engaged in collecting datt
regarding climatic influences upon con
sumption, the past summer, and finds
that out of 200 patients, 95 per cent have
regained health and strength under the
influence of favorable conditions and re.
moved to dry, warm climate. The fol-
lowing extract from an article on the
Curing of consumptieu which ap.
peared in the Minneapolis Progress, the
organ Of the society mentioned, proves
oonclusively that the project of securing
the government property in this city, has
not been abandoned:
cat Las Cruces, N. NJ, we'll conducted
Agricultural college is available for in
instruction in chemics, irrigation and
practical matters underlying the proper
conduct of fruit and cattle ranches. Its
president himself is an illustrated in
stance of recovery from far advanced
lung disease through removal into ia
voring cline. In the northeast, it is esti-
mated that at least one person in 200 be-
comes, through pulmonary disease, a d.
rect financial burden to the state, with
expense of lodging, feeding and burial,
and the economic importance of move
ment which transforms an unproductive
and expensive class into a productive
one is recognized by the present congress-.
By vote of the senate, the military reser
walton at Fort Marcy, N. M, containing
~ substantial buildings, large and small,
is given to the American Invalid Aid 80.
clety for occupancy by oonsump tlves.
There seems no reason to doubt oonfir-
nation of this vote by the house.
with this sanitarium for a nucleus,
where patients would be expected to re.
main but short time, while separate
homes are assigned throughout the neigh
boring territory, where land is gratu-
ltously offered, the larger the money con-
bributions, the larger can be the work of
this society"
1t would appear from the above that it
Is the object of the American Invalid So
'iety to secure possession of the govern
nent property in Santa Fe for use as a
central station, where patients may be
brought, left and treated until they have
ecovered sufficiently to undertake some
business or employment, and then to find
places or locations for them in the terri
DRY, where they may live, if not the allot-
ed time of three score years and ten,
much longer and in far greater comfort
han they can in the north or east.
The object is noble one, and one which
pPeals to the best there is in man. To
i'd in alleviating suffering and 70 restore
ealth was one of the great works of the
man of Gallilee," and the exam pie set by
i'm in that respect is worthy of emula-
ion, bat the question is, can Santa Fe
lRhtly permit such an institution to be
in the center of the cityG
II is far from tie wish of the NEW MEx.
JAN to deny any one the privilege of
aiming health and strength from the
lorious climate of this city, but the
respect of large colony Of consump-
yes being planted here is not allurinp,
sither is it pleasant. While there is t
'me doubt as to the hereditary ten
'ncies of consumption, there is no cues
on concerning its transmission from one
'rson to another through the medium I
dried and powdered sputam, which
lows the germs to circulate freely in the
T. The presence of limited number +
persons SO afflicted is in no way danger
10 to the health of the community, but
ere is grave danger in the Assem- bling t
a large number of consum ptives in !
. locality. =
The location of the sanitarium might
ssibly prove Of benefit TO the city in a