The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-09
TO TREAT CONSERVATIVES
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY WANTS
a SAFE sANAT0RIEM.

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a SAFE sANAToRErM.
The State Medical society at its re-
cent meeting in Duluth, adopted The
following resolution in regard to the
need Of a state institution for the treat
ment Of early cases of consumption
among the poor:
N heTeaS, Pulmonary tuberculosis is
the most destructive of al diseases OF
the human race.
And since lis transcnissibiiity is an es-
tablshed fact, and its presence in eV-
cry community known, it constitutes a
constant menace.
And since this disease can be most sue
cessfuly treated in sanaIorusns, more
especially those Intended for the Door
as has been dernOastI a ed by the re.1l s
obtained in Massachusetts. New YORK
the British isles, and the different coua-
tries Of Europe, which Institutions must
necessarily be 50 large that private PM
lanthropy can not support them.
And since the state supports inst.tu
tons for the care of the blind, the fe 2ble
minded, the crippled and the insane it
should also care for the consumptive
poor both on philanthropic and selfish
grounds, as the segregation Of those af-
ficted and their sanitary education would
largely reduce the danger Of spreading
the disease.
And since other progressive states have
such Institutions
Therefore, be it resolved by the Min
ncsota State Medical society, That it is
the opinion Of the society that the state
of Minnesota should establish an insti-
tuition for the tre.e--i aTt of early cases
of consumption among the poor.
Speaking about the action OF the So
ciety and the need Of some such action
on the part of the state, DR. H. Long
street Taylor said yesterday:
The hospital at Rutland, Mass, eS-
tablished at an initial cost of $150000, ac-
commodities 200 patients, each of whom
pays fifty cents a day for board, or
their City or county pays for them, and
the results, even in that bad climate,
are so good that another hospital is 10
be built for the western end of the state
The municipal institutions scattered
over the United Kingdom show most eX-
oellent results under very disadvanta-
it is a good investment for the associa-
tons OF German l9borers, for mutual
protection in sickness and a trivial pay
ment in case of death, have found it
cheaper to support such institutions, TO
which they send their members WHARF
such a large proportion are cured and so
many become contributing members that
it Is a good investment for the assicia-
ton. Coufd more convincing q unent
be found to show how durable consL1np-
ton IS if taken early and treated IA
+ tionally?
Pest morte1n examinations have shown
that a large percentage (f0rty per cent?
Of all human bangs have been. iafected
existence and have recovered, which gives
us every encouragement to KY. to res
cue these unfertuRaras and return them
/ to their families, able to again take up
their Hes work
This method of treating -consurnpt on
is not a novelty. In the dftles Dr.
Brehmer established the first sanat9riunl
of this kind il The world, ct G9rbers-
doIf, Silica, and TO him and his success
sols ard students we owe oIr 4Ino%feage
of the treatment and its recuirerlea t.
These private institutions are, OF cou. Sc,
only for the well-tO-do, but they have
/ taught the word what such rational
methods can accomplish.
AT present there are upwards of fifty
charitable institutions in Germany. The
car is spending 100000 on one near st.
Petersburg. There are eight others for
the poor in Russia.
I'm Sweden King Oscar has donated
s500,0 00, and three sanatorIa viii soon be
in operation.
Norway has one at Moelda-an Cd
/ lepeG kospital-and is bui1diag another.
Switzerland has four for the poor.
Austria one Of 300 beds. France, Den
mark, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Bull
garia, Roumania and Spain have assoc "a
lions for the erection of sanatoria for
poor cOnsumptives. England has seven
teen sanatoria, practically free.
1T is indeed time for Minnesota to be-
gin this same work"