Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

crn senatorium established and equip
pod especially for the care Of con-
sumptives.
When we consider these five con-
ditions we will note that they are au-
parently quite simple. Yet If we study
them in detail it will be found that it
is not an easy matter TO secure them
ill, especially outside Of sanatorium.
True, if the patient is wealthy he
may be able to have them all in his
own home but with the poor, and
they furnish most of the consumptives,
it is generally impossible. Even with
the rich the first condition of pure air
is not readily obtained at home, es-
pecially in city.
with the poor the matter of the
proper aud abundant diet, and COM
petent medical supervision is often I'M
possible to secure.
"One Of the important elements in
the securing of pure air is the proven
ton CT it's contamination by the pa
tient with dried sputum. The most
rigid and exacting rules are necessary
in the proper care of the sputum.
The patient must be taught of course
never to swallow his sputum. 1t is
tients to use the proper care with the
spittle unless there is the almost con
slant and semi-military discipline of
the sanatorium.
THAT the sanatorium is the best
place and method for the cure OF tn
Derculosis there can be no doubt II
one makes 81 thorough study OF the
question It's utility and advantages
and success are proved by several
facts.
First and probably most important
is the data furnished in the record OF
such institutions. Thus in the Eight
eenth Annual Report of the AdiTon-
dack Cottage Sanitarium at Sarnac
lake New York. the oldest sanitarium
| in this country for consumptivss,
we note that of 165 patients,
| so or 80 per cent were dis
charged apparently cured, 81 or Al per
cent were discharged with the disease
arrested, 50 or 19 per cent were ais-
charged with the disease improved and
only II or less than per cent were
discharged with apparently 10 i'm
provement.
| OF 5,032 patients in Brehmer's sani-
tarium, the Oldest in Germany, between
years 1S76-1SS6. q per cent were in
| the first stage of the disease, A per
cent in the second stage and 20 per
| cent in, the third stage. Of those in
the first stage, % per cent were cured
and 80 per cent almost or relatively
| cured. OF those in the second STAGE
Z per cent were cured and of the third
stage per cent only were cured. Thus
We see the great Importance Of treat
ment in the early stage and its grand
results
I'm a list of 90 other such sanitai-
ums the number of cures of the incipi-
ent cases were from % per cent to Al
per cent and those improved generally
about double the per cent The en-
couraging results of permanent cures
in at least one third of the cases and
relative cure in many more, are you
note, in cases where treatment was be-
gun early. Another evidence of the
efficacy OF the saratoria, is the fact
that they are multiplying rapidly in
number, especially in Germany.
Have Done Wonderful Work.
in 1899 there were thirty-three pub
/ lie sanatoria. for tuberculosis in Ger
many and sixteen others under private
| direction. In 1900 eleven more and
in 1901 fourteen more were opened and
still thirteen more were projected.
Thirty thousand consumptives were
| treated last year in sanatoria in Ger
many. Such numbers show that those
institutions have done wonderfully
| good work or there would not have
been so many erected.
This phenomenal growth Of the san
atcria for workmen in Germany has
been accomplished in a single, decade.
/ And the most wonderful fact about it