Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-07-26
INVALUABLE 10 HUMANITY.

Inasmueh as Dr. w P. Roberts, field
secretary of the Wisconsin Health Park
association, visits Wausau occasionally
to solicit subscriptions for the building
of an institution near Tomahawk for
the cure OF consumption, and as that
institution viii be benefit to this as
well as every section of the state, we
believe few words in reference thereto
will be read with interest by our read
ers. The PILOT has from time to time
published articles in reference to this
subject, but believes that too much can
not be said in favoring the enterprise.
The following, taken from Progress,
Minneapolis publication, gives some
valuable information in reference there
To:
DIR. Roberts is well known as one of
the founders of the Invalid Aid Society
o. Boston, which has done more than
any other one thing to educate the pub
he as to the needs and ways of curing
and preventing tuberculosis. 1t was
due chiefly to the work of that society
that the great state sanitarium for con-
sumptiyes was established in Massa-
chusetts, where the cold-air cure is so
successfully used.
The Wisconsin Health Park assOcia-
ton is following in the steps of the Ia
valid Aid society, by carrying out, in a
practical way, the principles promul-
gated by the society. 1t proposes to
establish and maintain health park in
Northern Wisconsin, where invalids,
especially incipient cases of tuber-
culosis, may be sent for improvement
and recovery
DR.. Roberts informs us that already
the association has secured a large
tract Of land in the pine country in
Lincoln county in the city limits of
Tonahawk. They have cleared and
plowed tract suitable for raising crops
and gardening, also have cleared the
underbrush from several acres in a
beautiful pine grove ia readiness for
cottages, so that, through the
push and kindness of some two
hundred people who are well scattered
Throughout the state, there has been in
stituted one section where it is possible
to develop a health catching home in
the near future All that may possibly
be lacking to carry forward this grand
rescue work is money to equip the park
on scale equal to the accommoda-
tons of those who may wish to avail
themselves of such an Eldorado. Each
one who wishes to come will be made
welcome, and for those with limited
means so far as possible will be given
employment a few hours each day at
fair wage SO that they may meet the
actual cost of their rescue, thus taking
away the sting of any Thought Of power
ty, but rather to stimulate the trQe idea
of independence. Gifts are beginning
to come in. One person is giving 5000
year for five years. A number of
promised to do more as the work pro-
crosses. Still scores of others have
joined the association, until it now
numbers 200 members.
1t is shown that the mortality from
tuberculosis equals the combined deaths
from peritonitis, appendicitis, scarlet
fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, grip,
cancer and smallpox. In this country
about one person in nine dies of it; and
and between the ages of fifteen and
forty five about One-third of all the
deaths are due to this old chronic calam-
ity disease. While pure air is most
essential in combating this disease, it
alone is not sufficient There may need
to be employed the food cure. These
four combined treatments are sufficient
in the majority of cases. DIR. Roberts
believes that sanitarium should be
place for people to get well in rather
than to die in. and that all invalids
should have an opportunity to recover
health. The work of the association is
highly commendable and should have
counterpart in every state in the Union.