The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-04

to their families and to the community.
Beyond the fact of it's great distance
from town, I know of no objection to
the site proposed. but this objection
seems to me an absolutely fatal one
for the three reasons stated above
which I will briefly recapitulate:
First--The self-evident impossibility
of securing medical aid outside that Of
the resident masses and house physi-
clan with anything like the necessary
promptness.
Second-The great danger in trans
porting patients acutely i'll, so great a
distance.
Third-The fact that it would be prac-
tioally impossible to provide private
rooms for patients, thereby depriving
the institution Of it's only legitimate
means Of internal revenue, and depriv-
ing it of, what is still more important,
the moral support Of the moderately
well-to-do in the community.
1t may not be proper for US to call
attention to the fact thar I have had
some experience in trying to care for
the sick at that ineonveniently remote
place. having had medical charge of the
almshouse during parts of two years, as
town physician and during the whole of
third year as physician to the aims
house
There is absolutely no danger to sur
rounding residents from such an insti-
tuition properly conducted according to
modern principles.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are dis
eases In which recovery often depends
on prompt and sktlful surgical aid. 1t
is not justifiable to establish hospital
so remote from such necessary atten-
ton.
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The odium which is naturally felt by
| many people towards going to the aims
house would deter many from awaiting
themselves of its advantages. The OBJ
| lection raised by so many to the loca-
| ton of an Isolation hospital IN thelr
neighborhood is point poorly taken,
| inasmuch as they often live next door
| to a house in which scarlet fever ana
| diphtheria are treated, under conditions
| less favorable to it's isolation than
| could be furnished by the proposed IN
| stitution. In fact in our large cities,
| e. g., Boston and New York, we ma
| the contagious disease hospital in the
most populous portion OF the city.
| In my opinion the building of such
| hospital at Springside farm would de-
| feat the object for which such hosDi-
1 tai was designed The location there
would be most unsuitable on account or
| its distance, Its inaccesslDllty anu lhe
stigma of pauperism which would at
| tach itself to building erecteu on the
| poorhouse farm, which would prevent
| the voluntary use of such aWlnstltu-
| ton as being the place where the best
| treatment and most careful nursing
would be obtained,
One of the purposes of an isolation
| hospital was that on the outbreak OF
| any of the diseases in a family, partlc-
ularly where the labor of some mem
| bers of the family are requisite for sup
| port, the first case could be removed.
| the house Immediately disinfected and
the workers Of the family could still
| They would be unwilling to have their
| sick one removed to hospital at
Springside and would rather suffer the
difficulties of quarantine at their own
home and thus be prevented from earn
ing their necessary support.
Replying to your letter of December
| "a, / would say that, in my opinion,
Springside farm is entirely unsuitable
gious disease hospital for the following
| reasons:
lit is too far away to move a very
sick patient
PIT is too far away for very sick
| patient to get proper attention from