Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-05

THE MARINE HOSPITAL
At Fort Stanton Its Location and the Work
Being Done-To Contain Several
Hnndred Patients.

The new United States marine hospi-
tai established at the old military post
of Fort Stanton, New Mexico, is the
subject of much comment throughout
the entire country, and particularly the
southwest.
The site is about $50 miles northeast
of Ell Paso, in Lincoln county, New
Mexico. 1t is about ten miles from the
old town Of Lincoln, and about the same
distance from Nogal. When completed
the Ell Paso & Northeastern railroad
will pass within about fifteen miles of it.
Fort Stanton was always considered
a comfortable post by the soldiers, and
1t is certainly a pretty one. The build
ings are arranged so as to surround a
large parade ground, which makes a
The buildings themselves are very pref
ty, and are mostly of adobe. Since the
abandonment of the post a few of the
buildings have become somewhat dilap-
idated, but the work of repairing them
is going on, and when a Times repre-
sentative visited the post everything
was being put in shape to receive the
%invalids, the first of whom, about tWen-
ty in number, are expected to arrive
within a month. Ground is being bro
ken and prepared for seed in order that
the hospital may raise as much as pos
sible of what it needs Inc help to make
it self-supporting to a great extent.
The spot is an ideal one for a SANTA
RUM of this kind. The altitude is some
thing over 5000 feet, and the mountains
surround the fort at no great distances.
Close by flows the Rio Bonito, the ex-
IRENE beauty of which shows that it
was not misnamed. During the summer
months there is considerable rain, and
snow falls during the winter, out the
climate is considered excellent for pa
tients suffering from pulmonary trou-
bles.
The hospital will be exclusively for
sailors and the general public will not
be admitted, although it is believed that
the government may later on endeavor
to provide also for them in some way.
1t is reported that the army may soon
establish a similar hospital at Fort
Bayard, near Silver City.
The hospital will have excellent &C
commodations for several hundred in
valids in the barracks and former off
GERS quarters. The method to be used
for treating consumption will be entire
ly new and original, but DR.. J. o. Cobb,
who is in charge of the work, declines
to give any details yet. One of the rules
already promulgated by DR.. Cobb is
that no splitting will be tolerated within
the limits of the post under any circum-
stances. All employees have been warm
ed against this under penalty of imme-
diate dismissal. All the invalids, it is
understood, will be provided with small
sacks for splitting, which will after
wards be destroyed. This is done be-
cause, as it is now we'll known the pres
ence of the expectorated matter is ex-
ceedinoly dangerous and the means of
spreading contagion.
lie hospital is COHSlueTou d SOOu
thing by residents Of the country. The
| work now being done upon it is furnish
ing employment to many persons, and
the furnishing of supplies is an excel
lent source of income to those lucky
enough to secure contracts. Some fear
has, however, been expressed lest the
hospital be the means of spreading con-
tagion among the people of the country,
but it is not believed that there is any
real danger Of this occurring, for while
it is admitted that there is danger for
persons with anv tendency to consump-
ton to come in contact with patients,
there is little or lone if proper precau-
lions are observed.
In any case the marine hospital is
now an assured fact.-El Paso Times.
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