El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-13
UNITED STATES
MARINE HOSPITAL
Will Be In Charge Of DR.. J.
0. Cobb.
ISOLATION OF PATIENTS
Believed By the Surgeon General To
Be the Proper Plan To Pursue In
Treating Consumptives.

DIR. ]. o. Cobb, who was in Ell Paso a
short timo ago, looking for location
for the marine hospital and Investigate
ing the Juarex smallpox situation, has
been ordered to the old Fort Stanton
military reservation to arrange for fit
ting the place up as a sanitartum for
consumptives.
DR.. Cobb is to have charge of the
samtarium after it is completed and
ready for invalids.
The reservation is situated 5000 feet
above the level of the sea. It is one of
the best places which could be found
in the country for q sanitarium for con-
Sumptives.
In an interview with a ST. Louis
GlObe-Democrat reporter, Surgeon Cen
eral Wyman gave the following state
ment as to the aims of the depart
ment:
1.-THE establishment of the sapitari-
um for cOnsumptiyes in the marine SER
vice is matter which L have had in
mind for many years. Some years ago,
when DR.. Bratton, of our corps, was
stricken with consumption and went to
New Mexico to regain his health, l in
structed him to prepare a report upon
the benefit of the New Mexico climate
to consumptives, and also to make an
examination of all the government
property in the territory which there
was any chance of the marine corps
securing for a sanitarium for consump-
tives, giving his opinion about the diff
ferent sites. He made an exhaustive
report upon the subject. and agitation
began for the donation of some govern
ment reservation in New Mexico to the
marine hospital corps to be used as q
ssnitarium for consumptives.
1--WE could not have better location
than the old Fort Stanton military re-
=
purposes which we have in view. We
will go to work to establishithe santa
rum without delay. DR.. Cobb has al
ready received his orders to set out for
the reservation and look after the get
ting of things into shape for the early
reception of patients. AS soon as
every thing is in readiness we will re-
sumptive patients which we now have
in the different marine hospitals of the
country. There are thirty-eight stone
and adobe buildings on the reservation,
and we believe they can be fitted up for
purposes without any great
expense.
"You may say that this movement to
isolate all OF our consumptive patients
in sanitsriupl, located in country
sffording special climatic advantages to
such sufferers, is in line with the move
ment which Is now going on all over
the world to suppress consum ption.
or consumption, is proba- |
bly, the greatest enemy of the human |
race. Some medical statisticians as (
sert that % per cent of ell deaths are
1ue to this dread disease. This per-
IS probably little high, but |
We know the real percentage is suffi- |
,iently high to be appalling.
Consumption is contagious |
disease. The isolation of those suffer- /
ng from it is, therefore, of advantage
% those who are not so afflicted, as well
Is those who are. 1 believe there is
low pending before the New York
legislature a proposition to establish a
tate sanftarium for consumtives in the
A sanitarium for con-
umptives has been established just
outside of Chicago, and similar in
tuition has been esta blished just out
ide of Philadelphia. In England and
q fact, in all European countries, the
ISOLATION of consumptives is now being
dvccated, and sanitariums are being
established for that purpose.
"Something must be done to check