New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-12

answer to your invitation at greater length than
had intended
The following letter was also read from Arson
Phelps Stokes:
Dear Sir thank you for your king inv at
Board of Health and the Forest Preserve Board
were able to be present I would renew my protest
against placing the State tuberculosis Hospital at
could be selected and one where the patients would
not be brought so nearly in contact with those who
pense in that immediate nelghborhood a site
better for the State, I informed that sepa-
ration is Of great Importance in the treatment Of
this disease
IN FAVOR OF DANNEMoRA.
Alfred F. Sims who has charge Of the United
States Government Weather Bureau, read paper
which he had prepared from Government weather
reports showing that Big Clear Lake is in the path
of western storms while Dannemora is not; that
there is a large percentage of cloudy weather at
Big Clear Lake much fog and frequent rains. He
said the soil at Dannemora was atter adapted for
a consumptive hospital than that at Big Clear
Lake. Storms he said, deposited their moisture on
the western side of the Adirondack Mountains.
and the rainfall was far less in the Champlain
Valley, where DannemOra was located
DR.. E. D. Ferguson. of Troy. president of the
State Medical Association. who formerly in
charge of Clinton Prison convicts as a physician,
said ne could testify that the prison locality was
an excellent one for consumptives He thought the
cost Of the proposed hospital should be very
fully considered. since it might be model for
the of the State
Dr. Albert Vanderveer, of Albany, opposed the
Big Clear Lake site earnestly, saying:
Some of who favored the Of the INDECENT
insane Of the State considerably amazed now
and then at the present extent Of our responsibility
l acquainted with the Adirondack region. with
its mOnsture and temperature. II you Will look at
the statistics of Harretstown. In which Big Clear
Lake is situated You will that II IS not safe 70
put more people there who are threatened with
consumption or have consumption. You can intro
duce too large population OF a certain character
and their disease spreads through locality, Al
Big Clear Lake there are moisture and frequent
fOgs which not conducive TO the health of con-
not saturated with consumption. II you can use
IS duty TO do you will also give the convicts
employment and that is also our duty
This railroad transportation matter IS nothing
Tor II is proposed 10 treat only people VINO are
threatened with consumption, and they can al
train does not harm them. Personally, II had
TO vote this question, ! should be afraid TO
send patients to Big Clear Lake. They say they
Will have only two hundred patients, but We ali
know there will soon be thousand, and after q
time the country around Big Clear Lake would De
filled with consumptives as TO be dangerous
in Switzerland, in Mexico and elsewhere IN this
country and l say it is best adapted Tor CON
sumptives Of any place l know except that place
in Mexico.
Mr.. Cassidy suggested that the tuberculosis
Commission be requested to give a hearing to the
friends OF the Dannernora site and this resolu-
ton was unanimously adopted by the members
OF the State Board of Health and the Forest Pre-
serve. The members OF the Commission were also
requested to file briefs stating their reasons for
thinking the Big Clear Lake site a good one The
Forest Preserve Board and the State Board or
Health then adjourned II is not believed that any
decision can now be reached upon the site for
the tuberculosis hospital till after Election Day.