New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-31

ilI Snen tear down enough rear tenement houses
city can fIrnbo ennd the houses left Where the
AGO at Aq mo park as was done several years
,1, ne razng Of lung blocks" however. reouire.
one Of oo,Ii,, 90 uolisiS but years. Decay
ere 5000 dark interior rooms in MSnbattan snd
rn tUoE n and in the mean time the stricken in
Tgaeihed and reached quickly For this pTrpose the
by which a. 'inenI mas bureau OF information
iTy themselves can fight consumption The vital
strongly that many patients have fo--ei ~ 81
in oe ,iis ~ haInmocks hung from fire escapes or
nent keeps written record of every consnmDfivs
biy me city insDects his Eabitation and watches
op G5sdn in an 6or tnni special clinic has been
headquarters where n,edo ,e III Ie5n pepartment
- 70 c0Sumptive patients. and from here nurses
Rna i are also supplied with proper food on
tIden t Ti Island a sanatorium was established
are 49, e1e Low administration where the poor who
aIe 700 weak 10 work may be treated and their
diet Of milk and eggs great sanatoTum has also
tneeh Planned by che Charity Organization Society
si6f to he city 1t is the purpose Of the present
nifI, Won Commissioner 70 establish such commu
frame houses. and where they win he able to do
seif YORK which will make the establishment
tt Because NewYorlz is more cramped for room
IRS the White Plague presents peculiar difficulties
cities Of tS h fourth among the twelve largest
re In lSS, the death rate from consumption in
-, - SiS was - 10 loo lnha hitantS. In 1902 II
10 -, d reductlon or over 40 per cent.
N London, where il Is a long way to the noun
1iIIlS, some or the hospitals have brought the
Mountains TO the city. Beneath their roofs they
are manufacturing mountain air for the especial
ca feet Ions feet Wide and feet high t' eleV Sf
9n GITks inches from the floor the patient is con-
!Lleu IKE man in diving bell. Here he brea thes
the dry, pure and somewhat rarefed air which is
suupeu III rom outside. Before the air is ready
Tor his lungs it is first filtered through layers Of cot
ton to remove any PARTICLES OF SCOT or dust which
hang so thickly over London's chimney pots. 1t is
Inen dried by passage through perforated trays
called into action for five minutes I'm each quarter
OF OF an hour by an automatic clock The ventlating
smart Ieadlng from the cubicle is equipped with an
exhaust FAM which drives out the cir slightly faster
iran II Is supplied, so that the atmosphere within
the cubicle is partially rarefed
A patient spends about twO-thrds Of the day
and night within the wood and glass walls of his
fresh air chamber. As a rule. the inmate OF a
Ine greater difficulty of breathing the thicker
camper air outside The cubicles of the Oxygen
Hospital have been used with such success in
treating tuberculosis that DR.. George Stoker he
eves they offer the solution OF curing the consump-
1--WE laborerS OF London, and Of other COngested
cities He says that such men might work AT
cubices at night. In this way they might purge
by the wealthiest travellers.
IN france a house to house crusade against tn
herculos1s has resulted in greatly reducing the
death rate from this disease. Societies have beer
formed in each town which try TO prevent the
sanitation and by supplying medicines and treat
ment at dtspersarieS. The lodgings Of a patient
line and the walls whitewashed. The patients re-
ceiVe clothes bedding, pocket cusptdor, a table
cuspidor and one Ntre of lysol weekly. Steam
laundering Is done for sixty poor families at ar
average cost for each patient of % cents n day
In this crusade workmen have become lecturers
and go from family to family. teaching their sicl