Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-06-09

| S'"PhS oSSounJ OF tent lllS 40 nNN
under his direction for large number
OF insane consumptives. The follow
ing extracts are from his paper In the
Directory of Institutions and Societies
dealing with Tuberculosis In the
United States and Canada:
That consumptive insane patients
may be kept, and treated, to their adj
vantage and incidentally to the ad-
vantage of their felow.inmates, In
canvas tents, and throughout the sew
eral seasons of the year. has been
demonstrated In the recent history OF
the Manhattan State Hospital, East
The experiment upon the success OF
which this claim Is advanced has COW
cred period of forty months.
In all hospitals for the insane the in
mates are classified according to the
form OF mental disturbance. To take
from all these classes any suffering
from tuberculosis and put them to-
gether in one tent was serious prob
lem. This. however, has been very
successfully done. The original plan
was to use the camp only about five
months during each summer
The camp first established consist
ed of two large dormitory tents
twenty by forty feet-each containing
twenty beds, with smaller tents of
inherent shapes, about ten by ten
rect, Tor the accommodation of the
nurses, the care of the hospital stores,
pantries and dining tent for such
patients as were able to leave their
beds and tents, and go to the table for
their meals. Running water was Sc
cured by means of underground pipes,
and the safe disposition of waste and
sewage was also provided for.
AS has been said. 1t was expected to
continue the camp only through the
summer and as far into the autumn
as favorable weather might render
Justifable. But when in the late au-
tumn 1t was found that the favorable
experience continued, 1t was decided
to attempt to carry the experiment,
on moderate scale, into, or even
through, the approaching winter. The
camp, as first established, had been
placed upon an elevated knoll adjacent
10 the riverside sad purposely exposed
to the full lnrce of the summer
breezes. For the winter experiment
its site was removed to the center Of
the island. where trees and buildings
interposed to act as a wind-break tc
the severe storms from the east and
northeast which are to be expected In
that locality. The number of patients
was reduced to twenty, those in whom
the disease was most active being re
tanned and the others being returned
for the time being, and much against
their will, to the buildings. One large
tent suffices for the housing at might
OF the reduced number of patients
. and one was set apart as sitting
room for day use, with the accessory
tents before mentioned, and large
, stoves were placed in them, here and
, there, with wire screens SURROUNDING
: them to protect the patients, and 9
, liberal use Of asbestos and other fire
proof material and arrangements fol-
the prevention Of fire.
To make long story short, 1t has
remained in continuous use, not only
throughout the first winter, but
through the two succeeding winters
and intervening seasons, up to the
date of the present writing The scope
, of Its employment has been gradually
! enlarged until all patients in whom
there are active manifestations o.
+. tuberculosis-an average OF forty
, three out OF total census OF about
2,O00--are isolated therein, and there
y has been parallel enlargement of the
elements Of the plant
q The isolation OF the tuberculosis pa
4 tients has reduced to a minimum the
!. danger OF infection OF other patients
and of employees. The patients them
4 selves have suffered no injury or hard
/. ship, but have, on the contrary, beer
/. Enthusiastically benefited. This is shown
!. among other ways, by decrease II
y the death rate from pulmonary tuber
2 culosis, both absolute and relative
4 and by marked general increase II
|. bodily weight. amounting in the case
v OF one patient to an actual doubling o
4 the weight-from eighty-three to on'
a hundred and slxty-slx pounds-in four
Q teen months Of camp residence.
L Mental Improvement has as gener
y al rule been the concomitant OF physi
s cal, not only among the patients In TN
r tuberculosis camp, but also In III
others, and in the former class thii
| has been somewhat Of an anomaly
n My experience, and think that o
/. others, has been that when phthisii
L and Insanity coexlst they are apt Z
S alternate as to the prominence OF thei
h several manifestations-the menta
y symptoms being more pronounced
whilst the physical are In allowance
and vice versa Under the tent treat
o ment we have found a general ais