The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-06


- in its incipient stages, be.
l. Il fore 1t has taken deep hold
Of the system--how to pro-
long life, with fair degree Of comfort
In existence. for those in whom the
dreaded disease has made greater pro-
| gress. are questions that have taken
on more profound interest, everywhere,
| disease contagious.
| The rarityof relief by medical means,
together with known cases wherein
deep seated lung troubles had been
| stayed. sometimes cured. by outdoor
| life in favorable climates. led long ago
to the search by thousands of people
| for such climates. 1t is needless to call
| the roll of Southern European health
| resorts. or to do more than to name
| the Adirondack forests. the North Caro-
lima mountains, Florida. Southern Cali
| fornia, Minnesota. Colorado. each Of
| which in turn. and now all of them,
have their multitude Of seekers for the
| comfort in longer life.
Colorado last year organized the
Rocky Mountain Industrial Organiza-
tion. to conduct an industrial health
| colony situated about twenty miles
from Denver. 1T has been started be-
cause the majority of those who go to
Colorado in search of health have not
the means TO secure such conditions Of
living as make their pilgrimage of the
slightest avail. The intention is to
make the organization national in
scope. to secure the cooperation Of
every state in the Union. through its
physicians. and by means of branch or
SanatOrium Auxiliary which has set
before itself the raising Of cottage
endowments." The labor Of patients
"whom the industrial nature of the COL
ony will enable to avail themselves OF
change Of climate while the disease
is in its incipency" is expected to go a
great way in the support Of the plan.
The Colorado enterprise is prac-
tical and sensible one that must COM
mend itself. But it is to one close at
home that we desire especially to call
the attention of a northeastern Penn
sylvania constituency Of readers. Con-
sumptives and people threatened with
consumption ought not TO be obliged TO
so to distant places when the best con-
ditions can be as we'll secured for them
or by them nearer home. particularly
when the seeker after health has but
small financial means.
There is no Surer or better known
relief from lung troubles than outdoor
life under the balsamic influence Of the
pines and the health-giving air Of the
woodlands in general. There is no
surer tonic and curative for those
tried out, run down. whose worn
nervous and physical condition invites
disease
Everyone interested in the forestry
question and who has followed even
approximately the hard work. and the
results so far won by it. of Pennsyl-
vania's commissioner of forestry, DR..
Joseph y. Rothrock has in memory
that when he began his campaign for
state forest reservations he set forth
their value as sanatoriums. as we'll as
protectors of the sources OF the water
supply of the commonwealth
With this first summer of the new
century the forest possessions of the
state in our neighboring county of
Pike. and those over in Clinton county.
are TO become available as health re-
sorts. The state will supply the tents
for forest camps. and the needful wood
for fuel. 1t also will see to the en-
forcement of strict sanitary rules so
that there shall be no contamination of
springs or streams Each camper out
will supply his own outfit. except the
tent, and his provisions. so that none
can feel themselves pauperized as they
avail themselves Of the health resort
thus made possible and secured in its
sanitary conditions by the state.
Already. says Mr. George NoX Nc
Cain. writing from Harrisburg to the
Philadelphia Press, there have been |
many applications entered for admis-
sion to the camps in the course of the |
coming summer. This is only one line |
of the great good that the forest reser-
vations, with the scientific care of |
them. will bring to Pennsylvania. But
II is in itself one OF incalculable, enor-
nous value to the people.