The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-12-11
BOON T0C0NSUMPT IvES
Interesting Features of Col
ony Started In Colorado.
WORKED ON COOPERATIVE LINES

U1enN8 Live An 'kenSS AhO oNt-
doors. Er< o.
A cooperative colony for consump
lives, planned to be self supporting, in
which patients in the first stages of
the disease can live in tents and work
outdoors in the dry, health giving air
of Colorado, has made start in a ten
acre tract of fruit land near Barnum.
It is backed by several men prominent
In business in Denver, and about twen-
ty physicians of high standing are
watching the experiment with interest.
If it is a success, the colony will
solve the biggest problem that the
$ sapstariums of Colorado have to face,
Hsand it will probably save the lives of
thousands of men from all over the
country who discover the disease while
1t is still in an incipient stage, but can
not afford to go to- Colorado and re-
main there in idleness. says the New
York Sun. The great problem with
the majority Of consumptives who go
to Denver is how to stay In Colorado
and to support themselves by, some
.healthful occupation during: the long
period in which the wasted lung It's
sues are repairingsin the mountain air.
Hundreds, go there each year. effect
partial cure. and then. because, their
money mas given out and they cannot
afford to live any longer without work
ing. return to their old homes and UNI
healthful occupation only to sI1ccumb
to the. disease in a few months. Hun.
dreds more go to work in offices and
Stores. with the. result that, they de-
rive little benefit from their change of
home and only succeed in delaying the
= end for 'little while. TX :
For these two, classes of patients the
colony is founded, . It.has been incor-
porated as the Rocky Mountain indie
pendent sanffarfum. It's present quar-
ters are only temporary. They WOULD
not give the colony a chance to ex-
pand. AND the dream Of its directors is
to see it occupying about 1000 acres,
self supporting and lndependeutSof out
side labor ~ ,''"'
It is not e charitable. Institution, nos.
is 1t money making concern. Its con-
W. to spre-
Vent it from hssWnsng the latter. 1t
has been stantedanq got under way by
a few DefIEar bHstness. men ais their
contributes Sc Eafd soEsiilg the tuber-
culosis problsn. and then idea isssim-
ply to help sahsunp p s help them-
Only patients Who Scan do outdoor
work or. have money enough to pay for
their board for the present andi are
likely to be able to join the ablebodied
workers before that money is spent
will be accepted at, the time They
will have good medical treatment, but
1t is upon@sthe outdoor life that the
principal reliance is placed to effect q
r cure.
To insure the patients being in the
open air all the time they will sleepiip
tents and will even eat their meals
outdoors. This is the plan followedfin
the temporary quarters at Barnuin.
and the results have been most salts
factory. There are now about twenty
consumptives there. Among them are
a carpenter and shoemaker. but the
majority find work on the fruit lands
which now comprise the homes terri
tory.
The institution will stay near Bar
mum till next spring. Then it will seek
larger quarters. When it is we'll estab-
lished, it is expected to. make it capa-
bic of living entirely by itself. it's in
mates supplying all it's wants. The
idea is that men of all trades will go
there and ply their trades, SO that the
home will not need to buy much Of
anything but materials.
Even in the winter the patients will
: continue the tent life. That is the
pivot on which the whole system
hangs. Some of the present patients
have been at the sanitarium for about
six weeks, and they find that their con.
dition has been very perceptibly; i'm.
proved by the life outdoors They say
that it is uncomfortable to go into
heated rooms since their lungs became
accustomed to the cold air.
The superintendent of the colony is
a convalescent consumptive; She is
Miss Margaret S. Dunno. In, the war
with Spain she served in Cuba as a
nurse, and at the close of the fighting
she was put in charge of the officers
wards in the military hospital in Ha-
vana. There her health gave way, and
she came to Colorado.
She is trying to found auxiliary
branches of the home in the east with
a view to interesting philanthropic in
stitutions throughout the country in it
before it launches out on a more ex-
tended scale. The land it will take will
be used principally for fruit cultiva-
ton. rs that gives the best field for
labor, but some of it will be grain and
pasture land.
If the experiment continues to fulfll
the promise with which it has opened,
there are plenty of physicians ready to
encourage it, and it will have the most
modern and complete medical equip
ment that it is possible to obtain
Glass Road In Paris.