Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-05-10
FORT BAYARD
SANITARIUM
A Direct and Indirect Tribute to the
Curative Powers of New
Mexico Climate.
A SATISFACTORY SHOWING
Interesting Disclosures Made by the Ex-
periments in the Cure of Consumption
Carried on at Fort Bayard Many
Cures Effected.

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II Walden Fawcett, in Frank Leslie
Illustrated Weekly. gives am illustra!oe
account of the mtuitary samNtarium q
Fort Bayiard, Grant county, abou
whose work even less is known gener
ally than about the sanlitaTilIm at For
Stanton i'm Lincoln county. Comint
from am unprecedented source and ON ac
icount of the direct and imdirect tribut
to the curative qualities of the climat,
of New Mexico, the New Mexican re
Ipublishes the article.
The growth i'm thle size of the United
States army during the past few year
land I'M the variety and scope of It'll
functions has brought ito tine war de
partment many new responsibilities
One of these has, Glscenitny been dis
IchaItgad i'm a RATHER unique manner b.
| the establishment of a sanitarium fo
soldiers affected With consumption, Ia
Fort Bayard, New Mexico. This hos
pilal, SITUATED i'm am isolated nook o
| the Pacific southwest, remote from the
beaten tracks of travel, lis nnquestlorr-
ably cn'a of the least -lnown institution;
under the jurisdiction of THE govern
mant, and yet from many stanldpoBnts
1T lis one of the moslb interesting.
Quarteren at Fort Bayard are sever
all hunidrled officers and privattas suffer
ing from the much dreaded disease, and
a decidedly cosmopolitan asselnlblage il
| is, embracing men of almost every mat
fnmality. slcGdiers from every branch ot
the service, veterans young and old
with brains charged with "reminiscences
of BATTLES and marches and sl<irnishes
| i'm Cuba and ChinLa and the Philippines
| ThiIs picturesque hospital, down near
| the MeNAcan border, lis mott to- be conn
pared i'm purpose to THE ordinary SOL
! diers' home by amy means. Indeed, the
| United States government is here car
rying ON la series of Investigations amid
experiments i'm THE treatment of CON-
sumption, which ARE lil0ely to result ul-
timatIely in thighly important and bene-
fetal results for mankfmd ait large.
With this end i'm view some off the
brainiest and most experienced physi-
clans i'm the army service have been
detlailed to- Fort Bayard, auld assisting
them is detachment of THE most skill
ed members of the RECENTLY organized
corps of army nurses. Already some
radical amendments have been made to
the gereraGly accepted code of hospital
management, and lit is claimed that the
results attained within tine past few
months prove conclusively THAT the In
f1uence of "a favorable climalte, combln-
ed with Intelligent observance of GER
tain natural lawIs amid cleanliness, can
be depended upon to absolutely arrest
THE progress of consumption i'm IA ma
jority of cases.
The Fort Bayard sanitarium was OPP
eniad during the CLOSING months of 1899,
and the administrative force now con-
sisIts of Italal chief surgeon, three assist
amt surgeons. ten female nurses, one
hospital steward, two acting stewards,
and twenIty privatels of the hospital
corps. 1t is no'taIble that, unlike the
authorities in control of many state and
municipal inslt.tutiorls for the care of
ilnvalid,s, the war department. at THE
outge't gave the surgeon i'm charge at
Fort Bayard carte blanche i'm all mat
ters pertaining to- Ithe conduct of the
sanitarium.
The most scrupulous cleanliness is
the kely+npite off tine adminis of
affairs at the nations army hospital
1t lis not emily enforced lin all depart
mleintss but lis required of the patients
Kitchens, dining rooms and dIormltou,es
are thoroughly scrubbed each day. To
prevent infection amid re-infections, no
taEblIe cloths or napkins are used i'm the
dining roohn. The Tables are of plain
boardJ and after each meal are thor
ouglhly cleansIed with Soda and boil
ing water. ALI table ware is aflso i'm
merseh i'm boiling water after each us
ing. Each inmate is supplied with tow
els and bed linem and mo one is permit
ted Ito use those allotted to another
Bach patient, upon Joining the little
colomy IA Fort Bayard, lis subjected to-
most comprehensive physical examina-
tom A cl,lart lis them prepared sihlowi]ne
the stage of the disease at the date of
and subsequent comdiltions
are recorded almost daily, $50 THAT, the
chart shows "a complete and continuous
history of each case. In addition
weekly RECORD i!s kept of each patient,s
w,efght, AMID such reportgs are reganded
as an index of the general proglressr of
the Individual.
In THE governments scientific treat