Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-11
sAhIToRluM AT Fl. STANTON.

tftiGie Is tHaL nc a single facL Is
mentioned concerning the favorable.
conditions existing at Fort Stanton on
which Las Vegas can not make al.
good q better showing as will
1e readily seen BY the following quo.
One Of the greatest advantages
In the treatment Of consnmptiyes at
Fort Stanton Is the climate. The
sun shines on an average of three
hundred and forty days per annum
and on nearly every one of these
days II. Is mild cough for the pa
tient to sit out OF doors. The win
tiers are mild and the summers
are cool, The altitude Is 6, $50 feet,
which. combined with the slight pre-.
eipitation-from II To II inches,
part of which Is snow-produces an
extremely dry atmosphere the year.
around. While the temperature on
one or Two occasions has gone over
In the summer the heat
Is never e~nervating, There Is In.
variably a cool breeze. 1t is al.
ways comfortable In the shade and
at least one blanket Is necessary
at night. All patients sleep well,
and as sleep Is d great tissue build.
err. the cool nights in the summer
are almost as beneficial as the
clear days throughout the year. In
The winter the temperature at
night is almost Invariably at freez.
ing or d little below. but the days
are almost universally mild.
The article dwells particularly on
the advantage Of open air treatment
Of consumption AT its early stages.
The statistics Of cures effected, when
patients have been received In the
first stages Of the disease. are sur
prising. Of the fifty.five s. re-
in the first stages. four cases
Or 1.3 per cent were discharged not
improved, twenty.three cases, 81 as
per cent were discharged improved
aud tg~enty.eight cases. or 500 per
cent were discharged apparently cur
cd.
During the same Iieriod. 81 the
2eb cases In which. the disease had
the second and third stages
and III which treatment had terminal.
Cd, al Total Of eightysesen died, OF
~ : per cent sixteen cases or 6 per
cent we're discharged not improved:
lsg cases. or 80 per cent of the total
were discharged improved. and twen
ii, three eases o. 81 per cent we're dis
charged apparently cured
Il viii be noticed that Of the 265
patients admitted. after the disease
had reached the second or third stage
twenty.throe nr less than one
tenth we're cured. while OF The fifty
five admitted III the first stage, TWEEN,
Is weight, Or over one-half, were dis.
apparently cured.
The record made In both instances
Is remarkable, for small as Ii the per.
centage OF cures In the second and
third.stage cases, IL Is considered by
all authorities on tuberculosis 70 be
Unexpectedly high
What 10 do % keep the patients
In q healthy condition has
been a serious problem in Fort Stan
ton, as Il Il wherever the treatment
81 this disease Is scientifically under,
aiken. Amusements must necessarily
be limited because of the physical cS
ertion required aud also because
many amnsements are too exciting
aud have a tendency 70 raise the pm.
temperature. Excellent golf
ind croQuct grounds arc maintained
md a good library 81 standard hooks
ind magazines Is furnished. All read.
ns must be dene out ~ ,logrs. Such
sames as cards. chess aud checkers
Ire provided and patients whose con
lition permits are allowed horseback
'idcs. One Of the primary ruless of
be institution Il that no patient Is
10 take recreation which II.
luires physical oxeriion without per
from the surgeon in com.
nand The sanitorium officials have
earned by experience that too little
,xercise Is much less harmful than too
much. which not only retarln me "a.
Tents advancement. but may help the
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