Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-18
THE PAsTETR INSTITUTE.
Obliged to Move to the Country for
Room.


CNew York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch, 6th)
To-day the Pasteur institute, when mas
friends the country over, begins It's new
career After almost ten years spent III
this city, first I'm a sm I house IN west
Tenth street, and next IN more preten-
tious building at Ninety-seVenth street
and Central Park, west, II Will commune
it's good work at Sufferin, in the hamapo
hills, on the outskirts of Tuxedo. Inc IN
stitute had grown so large and had ac-
quired so many departments when IL ala
not have when it was first opened, tnat
TO remain in the city was too expensive
even for the purse OF It's generous sup
norter. Andrew Carnegie When DR.. Paul
Gibler, the founder and director OF the
institute. first opened its doors, it was
for the sole purpose Of administering the
Pasteur preventive treatment against ny
drophobia and conducting on modest
scale a series Of experiments In bacteri-
ology. The extension of the facilities OF
the laboratory required other branches
which could not be located under the one
roof with the laboratory proper, ana the
family of animals necessary Tor the put-
nose Of making experiments had 10 De
chartered elsewhere. The NUMBER OF
horses whose blood was used In the
manufacture of antitoXin soon reached
sixty and to these were added by De
grees thirty sheep twenty dogs, 100 rap-
bits. twelve cows, and dozens or guinea
plgs. These were housed on farm ana
i'm city stables. But the good work mul-
tiplied. and DIR. Gibier two years ago ue-
cided to enhance the value OF the Pas-
teur Institute as a sanitarium. Inc SUI
FERN tract contains 200 acres. me IN
stitute there now comprises, besldes the
farmhouse and the quarters Tor thS am
mails. three large stone buildings, which
are occupied by the laboratories OF the
different departments. The sanitarium
nroner. which is to be Of stone and wood,
will be ready for occupancy in about two
months. Patients are temporarily quar-
tered I'm the laboratory buildings. Inc
new sanitarium will have accommoda-
tions for 200 patients, and hereafter non
resident patients will be few. sunerih
&c a no-license as well as heeithy Town.
prior 10 the appropriation by the
LEGISLATURE. Pasteur Institute was sup
ported almost entirely by its earnings
ana by the purse Of it's founder AT times
Gifts of small amounts have been re-
ceived. and eight years ago Sarah Bern
hardt gave the entire receipts Oh one
performance-$l.0O0 -to the institute Ut
Glbier says the institute Is now on a
drmer footing that ever before. Poor
patients, who are residents OF New YORK
state. are treated free. and every con-
cession possible is made TO the poverty
stricken victims OF mad-dogs, diphtheria.
lockiaw. and consumption from non-con-
tributing commemorative When the
Pasteur Institute was first founded It's
success was only moderate. Now " Is
rated among the worlds scientific sue
cesses and DIR. Ghbier points with par
donable pride 10 the fact that In no case
OF hydrophobia. when the patient has be-
gun the treatment In time, has the awful
af,iction developed. Where heretofore
laboratories, santarum, and hospital
were crowded into one building. they are
now in spacious quarters in a noun
famous district. where patients can have
both quiet and freedom from tho re-
straints OF town and the physicians con-
Quoting tho many ARCHAEOLOGICAL expert
ments can have at hand everything ne
cessary to the success OF their under
taklngs. II Is quite safe TO say that no
moneyless victim OF, dogsbite will ever be
turned away from the Institution stu
ated on the outskirts OF the colony es-
tablished by the 100 In the Ramapc
hills.