Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-21
HOW TO CARE FOR CONSERVATIVES
IS PROBLEM OF COUNTY HOSPITAL

son that no relatives can be found and
where they are found they have no
money. The county authorities then
make the best Of It and admit him to
the hospital where he in all probabill-
ty dies.
DR.. c. II. Blaney has devoted much
Of his time trying to solve the prob
lem of caring for all the patients in the
best manner that can be adopted.
Speaking on the subject he said yes
terday:
The crowded condition of our tuber-
culosis ward Is q grave question. II
patients come in as rapidly as they
have been coming in we will soon have
no more room for them.
Something should be done. Dis
crimination to q certain extent should
be shown between our home patients
and those whose homes are I'm the
cast. We cannot refuse to take in
those who belong in eastern states,
and the majority of the present large
number are from those states and we
give them the same care that we give
people whose homes have been in Cali
fornia, but II q place was selected in
the foothills of the Sierra Madre range
where a number of tents could be
pitched for the use of Los Angeles
county tuberculosis patients excu-
sively, they could then be given the
most scientific treatment it Is possi-
bic to give one suffering from that
malady This, / believe, would be an
excellent way Of handling those whose
homes are in this county.
I'VE could then use the present
quarters as a temporary hospital for
eastern patients and those that could
not be handled in the tents. The pres
ent system Of notifying the relatives
in the east keeps part Of the number
on the move and makes vacancies for
other cases.
Relief Is Demanded
"The condition, however, is so bad
that 1t demands some immediate rem
edy. All the sick must be cared for,
and 1t is certain Los Angeles county
cannot undertake to care for the tuber-
culosis patients from all over the
United States. 1t is an imposition on
the county to force the present large
number on its care"
DR.. d. C. Barber, superintendent of
the county hospital, said in regard to
The present condition: 1.-THE question
of handling tuberculosis patients is one
that has been asked, pondered over and
rehashed by the board of supervisors,
the Associated Charities and the Of
ficials In charge OF the county hospital
for years, and it still remains un-
dllSWeIeu' luc pTeSelJ COUulLlOu OIL
affairs seems to demand an imme-
diate answer of some kind, or the other
alternative patients refused and
turned on the streets and that Is i'm
possible.
"The tuberculosis subject arrives at
our door in various ways. In many
cases he is sent by some physician in
the east and arrives on a cot. We are
asked by telegraph to meet him at the
train with an ambulance and an ex-
press wagon for his trunk, or he
spends the first night in some 10-cent
| lodging house and in the morning the
proprietor notifies us to come after
him.
"There can be no method of making
the states that are the homes of the
unfortunate people pay for them, for
the question Of proving what state
they are from would cost more than
to take care of them.
1T seems like a problem that is al
most impossible to solve, yet l think
there will be some solution evolved. II