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TREATMENT.

substantial results have been obtained
in properly equipped institutions or sauA-
torla. The advantages OF the sanatoriula
over the home are apparent, for at the
sanatorium the ConTumptiVe patient can
be controlled and taught huW 10 live. The
discipline of a new regime can be enforced
and the patient is under constant medical
surveillance. His habits, diet, exercise
and employment can oe supervised from
hour TO hour if necessary, and lie under
goes 81 course Of training that In itself
is Of the utmost benefit. In the home,
discipline is always hard to maintain and
until a few years ago people have been
blind e. tho necessity Of pure air and sun
light. Cold has been the buEboar and
patients have hcedlessly sacrificed fresh
air and sunlight for artificial warmth.
Ignorance and prejudice against the open
window makes the home III fitted for the
successful treatment of consumption. and
the comforts and sympathy found in the
home are still further objections.
PREVENTION AND CURE, sANA-
TORA.
Institutions for the treatment OF con-
sumption, 1. e., pulmonary tuberculosis,
have been established In various parts
of the world for more than a century
These Institutions have been, until recent
years, private in character. and conducted
according to the plan OF some individual
or association in charge. one of these,
established in Warwlckshirc, England, in
1885, by DIR. Bodington, may be regarded
as a pioneer institution for the treatment
of tuberculosis, by methods most highly
esteemed. For some reason. not clear cp-
position and ridicule arose against this in
stitution, and 1t was abandoned. But one
of the persons treated at that hospital
recently testified, at the age OF 81, TO the
efficacy Of the treatment there adopted
I In the United States tho first institu-
| ton to be established for the exclu 3ive
treatment of consumption was by Or.
Trudeau, in the Adlrondacks, in 1853,
Since that time sanatoria for tubercu-
culosis have been established In several
states, and also in Canada, either a pri-
waite enterprises or by local municip1li-
ties or charitable organizations.
( There are in Alabama @ Colorado 3,
| Connecticut ., Delaware /, Illinois 8,
Maryland /. Massachusetts 4. New sey
y. Ohio /, New Mexico 4. New Yorl. 10,
North Carolina 2, Oregon !, Pennsylvania
4. The United States government has .
one for the army at Fort Bayard, New
Mexico, and the other for the marine
hospital service at Fort Stanton, NJ "
Mexico Mississippi has a hospital ior
the tuberculous prisoners. New YORK
city, Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati hnd
Hartford have special institutions for the
care and treatment OF consumptlv4s.
In our own State an appropriation was
made at the last Legislature for d apc-
cial building for the consumptive insane
AT the state asylum at Waterbury.
Massachusetts a few years ago cstab.
lished the first State sanatoriun, ana lis
success has proven so satisfactory thai
at recent session Of tho LEGISLATURE 81
that State, 1901, an appropriation OF snO,
800 was made to enlarge INC institution
to accommodate 20 patients an ircreas,
of - or 50 over the original number ant
to more completely equip &, for carrying
on its work.
Movements are now in progress in soy
eral of the States looking - the establish
ment of State sanatoria for tuberculou
patients, such as the appointment Of com
r.ssionS to investigate tn, subject, lle
islalirc consideration OF tho reports q
such COMMISSIONS already made. appro
priations for praiminar. plans and spcci
fcatons for the necessary buildings 70
such institutions. and ap,-1priations TO
the purchase of the necessary land an,
construction of bulldogs. Among the
States thus progressing, besides Vermont
may be named Maine, Rhode Island. Mex
, Hampshire New York. New Jersey
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois
Minnesota.
, ADVANTAGES OF THE SANATORIUM
From an economic standpoint a sana
! torium is a good Investment for an
state. The lives that can be saved eac
7 year cannot be accurately represented i
b dollars and cents, but in n recent paper
. written by DR.. Herman BiSgs, Of Nc
York city, he says, 1T may be cpnser
vatively estimated that each human If
at the average age at which tubercula
, deaths occur is worth to the State HeJ
The cost of each life at this age % usual
more than this" Thus the annual death
: from tuberculosis in Vermont Ieprcgcn
Y a loss to the State of $4,000 ana who
: the loss of time incident to the progress
!, Of the disease and which every consumr
o tive undergoes is considered, the totf
4 loss from consumption in Vermont
J, very close to 100000 annually. Certainl
y every step that will reduce this ligur
even partially will be justified on II
basis OF economy as well as Of human
:, ty. If n State can save only fifty live
n year through the establishment OF
state sanatorium, the advantages can /
economically proved, and are being PROV
ed in many localities all over the world.
In certain quarters objection has bee
, raised TO appropriations by tho State &c
sanatoria, on the basis that it singles on