The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-24
CURE OF CONSERVATIVES
OBJECT OF A BENEVOLENT INsTI-
TUITION TO BE ESTABLISHED
IN COLORADO
TO BE AN INDUSTRIAL COLONY
Where TubercuIous Patients From
Other States Will Have Chance
to Regain Their Health Under
Best Possible Conditions.

DENVER, Col, March 23.-To save the
lives Of thousands of persons belonging
to other states from death by tuberculo-
sis is the object -afl-organiZation Of
Denver physicians and other PROFESSIONAL
men and women, for the establishment
and maintenance Of the Rocky Mountain
Industrial SanatoriuIn, which has just
been incporporatedshere. 80
The organization a1fns4te be national in
it's scope, and has the84nd orsement and
support of the foremost physicians of the
United States. It's purpose is to aid the
great majority Of tubeEe@ lesia patients in
poor or moderate Cir Instances, who
states in. the hope that he eIinaate and
altitude will aid in erecting q cure, and
who, almost Invariably, %e ithersfrom lack
of means or proper direction, sare imme-
diately surrounded by conditions which
preclude Improvement OF recovery.
The story of the tortures and hardships
of the eenSumptive of moderate means,
who leaves home and friends and at.
tempts to make his way in a strange city
while battling for health. would fill vol
umes A large majority of those, coming,
to Denver are forced into office work
or other clerical employment, and to live
in cheap boarding houses, where the food,
ventilation and sanitation is poor, to say
the least. Under such conditions i'm
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The attempt will be n1aae4hrough auxil-
larry societies to reach these patients be-
fore they leave their shAmes in other
states, so that,they maghesstarted on the
search for health with asxeheering an out
look as may be affordsaEhy proper medi-
cal care, nourishing fpEAis cheerful sur
roundings and an outdDaEsIife in sunny
climate.
The problem Of how beststo care for the
vast multitude aff1icted With tuberculosis
and at the same time remove great pub
lie danger has long puzzled the brightest
minds in the medical pEofession. The sub
ject has been discussedatf every national
and state meeting forsgHars. Out of all
the theories and schemes suggested, Den
yer physicians, after nlneAy careful study,
have organized in an attempt to evolve
something practical. In this they have
had the advice of prominent doctors In
other cities, who hope that the ultimate
result will be the removal Of consump-
tives from large cities, thereby solving
another hard problem.
sANATORIUM PROTECTED.
Their plan provides for heserection Of
a sanatorium about twenty miles from
Denver, to be conducted as an industrial
colony. A large amount of money will
be required This it is expected can be
To secure these endowments by indi-
viduals, frateTnities, clubs, societies,
churches, college alumnae, labor unions.
etc., the Young Woman's Sanatorium
auxiliary has been organized. branch
of this auxiliary will be established in
every city and town in the United States.
1t will be the duty of this society to
cooperate with the board of directors,
to secure money for the endowment of
the cottages, to raise funds for a libra~v
collect furnishings for the cottages =
to interest wealthy people in the SAINT
forum. By utilizing the labor of pa
tients it is expected that nearly all the
work of the institution viii be performed,
the entire sanatorium supplied with pro-
visions, and a great variety of remuner-
atiVc industries carried on The indlS-
trial nature of the institution will en-
able patients to avail themselves of a
change of climate while the disease Is
in its incipieney and before they are in
caracitated for light open air employ
rnent. srs2sne
The motto of the Institution is: ''He1p-
ing others to help themselves is the Lest
charity The institution is not for
profit No dividends CAM be declared
and the net earnings viii pc used for the
Improvement and betterment of the en-
terprise. -gfseI
The incorporators ofsthel Rocky Noun
tain SanatOrium are: William H. Cab
bort, associate justice Of the Colorado
supreme court; Chafiesa Hartzell. at
torney; A. Mansfield TGolmes, M. D.
The foremost physicians and business
mer of Denver and anembers of the
directorate and the Boards of the diff
ferent departments Oh the general adj
visery board are physicians of national
reputation, belonging fo1 large cities from
Boston to San Francisco. The Denver
promoters declare that. success can come
only by the people of each state which
has consumptive patients lending help
ing hand in placing the institution upon
substantial working basis. Unless such
cooperative support comes from citizens
Of other communities, their invalids will
as heretofore, meet with hardships and
disappoin1ments.
The institution has been in operation
in an experimental way for several
months and the results SO far ere most
encouraging. Operations on large scale