The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19
er menaces as the greatest and deadlieS
i'll known to mankind
New York to Have "a HOSPITAL.

~ Hleu1ces as the greatest and 0CadlicSt
Ill known to mankind.
New York TO Have Hospital.
New York state is preparing 10 emulate
| the Chicago experiments In a hospital for
consumphves bill now is under con-
slderation az Albany providing for hos
piial building in the Adirondack forest
preserve which shall cost $4,000 and ao-
cou1modate 200 patients. IL is pointed out
that 1900 persons die of tuberculosis
every year in that state. and that il only
halt ot these may be saved, tive economic
saving 20 the state viii exceed $7,00lC00
annually. The Senate committee reporting
on the new measure regrets the lack of
special hospital facilities in the large
cities and towns II says that the recog-
nized righteousness of tuberculosis shuts
these patients from the regular hospitals
wherever IL is possible to refuse them ad-
mittance, ond IL recommends that sublr-
ban hospitals for consumptivss be estab-
i'shed wherever they may be found neces-
sary.
As leading up to the necessities of these
institutions. the state board of health will
be asked TO issue circulars educating the
people upon the subject of tuberculosis.
No Consumption in Canadian Resorts
Slowly but surely the knowledge OF this
disease Is spreading. Only recently the
proprietor of a great hotel in a Canadian
resort was requested by his well guests
10 choose between them and the consump-
tives; that the two classes of guests could
not occupy the same hotel
Or. z. n. Bryce secretary OF the Pro-
vincial Board of Health at Ottawa points
out that the Canadian public is awake 10
the dangers OF tuberculosis. He said, in
recent speech before the association OF
executive health officers of Ontario:
While at the Muskoka resorts | have
learned that last summer, keepers of sum-
mer hotels and boarding houses have had
TO decide whether they preferred to board
wen persons or consumptives, ms they have
frequently been Informed by the ordinary
summer visitor that he has come to Mus
koka for health and pleasure and not to be
| exposed TO a contagious disease Indeed
! nothing more sad than to learn that the
| tuberculized, almost in hundreds, had been
| sent to Muskoka on the advice of then
| physicians in all stages of the disease
| wsth no place fitted for their reception and
| entertainment, and none for their com
fort, medical guidance or treatment, ana
| that in the minds OF many they were look
; ed upon almost as lepers. And, gentle.
| men, l am ready 10 confess that the mem
| bers of this ASSOCIATION are IN some degree
| responsible for this. We have, with al
| the energy we have possessed, been fol
| years educating the public IN the facts re.
! gardng the conditions of infectiousness ot
consumption and, supplemented by theil
own observations In many instances. they
! have taken us at our word. We hav,
| preached the dangers from infected maal
! and milk and to-day we are believed
! is needless to say that at this crltioa
! point we cannot desert the public. They
are ueedins-nay, praying for our help
Shall we fail in the task we have ,ndor
! taken?"
In many cities there are movements Il
| prevent persons from expectofating on IN,
floors of public conveyances and publ,
| buildings one day tho world will awals,
TO its condition, and when II shall do 90
science Will have been met half way in IL,
indofatigable efforts to Danish the one dis
ease that lays low one-seveuth Of all IN,
| worlds dead. Hollis w I9ieIl