Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-12-09
FAME OF
SUNM0UNT
Wonderful Results Obtained at
This Resort Being Extensively
Advertised in the East.
CONDITIONS IN GOTHAM
A Prominent Lung Specialist Pro.
nounces q Patient From Cleveland
Entirely Cured,

Sunmount Tent City as the ideal re-
sort for the health seeker.
The fame of this great health resort
is being heralded far and wide
throughout the east by A. R. Gibson
of the firm of Gibson & Dow, proprie-
tors of Sunmount Tent City, who is at
present in New York City, where he
is doing extensive advertising. Mr.
Gibson happened in New York City at
a most opportune time, as the New
York American is at present devoting
much space to the lung blocks" OF
the city, which applies to the densely
crowded tenements, where whole fam
lilies are in danger.
The following articles from the
New York American will show the ex-
tent of the expose, end the fruit that
is being borne as the result or the
column after column of matter show
ing how hundreds of lives are in i'm
minent peril, and that the babies
should be saved and at once. Mr. Glib
son writes that he is going to adver-
tise Sunmoant Tent City in the AFFECT
ed tenement house districts, and
make every possible effort to get those
who can afford to do SO, to come to
Santa Fe,
Conditions in New York.
The New York American article fol-
lows:
"The Board of Estimate and Appor-
tionment, when it meets tomorrow
will take up the proposition to raze the
unhealthy tenements that cover the So
called Lung Block" bounded by Cher
rv. Market, Hamilton and Catharine
Streets, and to establish in it's stead
a public park and playground.
According to physicians, agents OF
the Board of Health, the Tenement
House Commission, the Charity Organ
ization Society and workers from the
University Settlement, who have visit
ed. inspected and lived in the Lung
Block" the death rate in that area or
less than four acres is twice as hlgh
as it is in the rest of the city, ana
a majority of all deaths occurring
there are from consumption.
Almost every building in the block
is infected with the germs of tubercu-
losis, and in the last fifteen years
family after family have moved in
acquired the disease and died.
1.-TWO hundred and sixty-eight cases
of consumption have been reported to
the Board of Health from the Lung
Block alone since 1895, and, accord
Ing to the testimony of physicians and
druggists who are familiar with the
facts, as many more cases that were
never reported have occurred there
"Six hundred and four families, in
cuding 2,778 persons, more than half
of them children, live in Lung Block :.
Although few of the buildings in the
block are as high as five stories, the
population is so thickly massed as to
give density of 500 to the acre, a
density exceeded by only one or two
other blocks in the city, and those COW
cred with six story and seven story
buildings. w -
u. q. Phelps Stokes, the young mil
lionaire, who gave up his business at
fairs to live and work among the poor,
is one of the prime movers in the ef-
fort to raze the Lung Block" and
erect in it's stead a breathing space
for the tenement dwellers.
Ernest Poole, one of Mr.. Stokes
associates lived for three months in
the Lung Block" His reports of the
awful ravages of consumption IN the
ssI ,,no ploclD ara aDnalling
"One of the old tenements is called
The Ink Pot said Mr.. Poole, yester
day. One hundred and forty people
live in it's five stories. Twenty-three
of these are babies. Death has laid in
wait In some of these rooms for years
On the third floor is room with two
little closets behind it. In one of these
blind man slept and caught con
sumption in 1894. He died in the hos
pital. Only a few months later his lit
tie daughter died. The widow and
son moved out but the germs lived on
Other people moved in and died there
"The greatest work the 'AMERI
CAM could do would be to bring its
influence to bear to have the 'Lun&
Block razed and handsome, useful
life-saving park and playground estab
lished in its stead
Tenement House Commissions
Robert W. de Forest has called the at
tentioh of the Board of Estimate ant
Apportionment to the crying need o
a park in the district which tho pro
posed new playground will most great
ly benefit, and is strongly in favor o
taking the Lung Block for. that pur
pose"
* Patient Entirely Cured.
a#'H Too much cannot be said Of. tn
wonderful curative powers of the eli
matte treatment at Sunmount Ten
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