Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-13
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Governor and Council Will
Meet, Thursday.
Meeting Of Maine Sanatorium
Asso'n. Shows Prosperity.
Fish and Game Dept. Loans Specimens
for Sporsmen's Show, Boston.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next meeting Of Governor and Council,
Thursday, Dec. IA, at 10 A. M.

The December meeting of the Gov
ernor and Council will be held at the
council chamber, Thursday, commence
ing at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and
the session is expected to be a busy
one. The nominations which were
made by the Governor, Thursday, Dec.
| Z, will come up for confirmation, and
a large lot of other routine business
is destined to be transacted. The
matters to be disposed of will deal
largely with the closing up of the bust
ness of the year 1t is also expected
that the petition for the pardon of
Lewis Reynolds, who is serving a
sentence at the State prison at Thorn
aston for breaking, entering and lar
ceny, will be presented, and a hearing
assigned for the same. In addition to
the coming meeting, the usual last
meeting for the year will be held at
the close of the month.
At the meeting of the board of trus-
| tees of the Maine State Sanatorium
Association, held at the Capitol, yes
terday, the medical director, DR.. Estes
Nichols. made some interesting state
mentS in regard to the results of the
sanatOrium treatment of his tuber-
culOus patients during the past year.
The number of patients discharged
from the sanatorium during the past
year is %. OF these, the disease has
been arrested in seven; nine have
been very much improved; and these.
also, if they fully carry out the method
of life which has been taught them
la iY,ly ft.a
seven with the disease arrested, fully
recover their health. The more con-
servative medical directors of sana-
forums prefer not to say that any pa
tient is cured until two years have
elapsed without recurrence of the
disease after his discharge. Two
other patients We're improved, and one
was discharged for infringement of the
Sanatorium rules. Nine discharged
natients went out with the course of
the disease still progressive. In these
nine the disease was far advanced
and they were taken for observation,
and were subsequently discharged af-
ter a short stay as unsuitable for
sanatorium treatment.
Aside from these nine patients the
average residence in the institution
WAS lOuI GlOlllHS anu llNC ueiSo' NV
average gain was 141 pounds. The
81 oatcst gain in the shortest time was
26H pounds in eight weeks. The sec
ond best gain was 31h pounds in II
weeks. The greatest gain in weight
during the entire residence was 32A
pounds in II months.
The applicants for treatment now
far exceed the accommodations for
the patients. The meeting of the
trustees was adjourned, to reconvene
in Portland. Jan. IS.
The resignation of Capt. T. III. Besse
commanding Co. II, I'd Infantry, of
Watervlle. has been received at he
office of the adjutant general, but ac-
ton thereon has been withheld pend
ing the transfer of property by that
officer.
Brig Gen. ChaS. T.. Davis. inspector
general on the staff of Governor Cobb.
will go to Portland, Thursday, to pre-
side at a court of inquiry to be held
for the purpose of investigating the
condition of Co. F., First Infantry, n.
G. S. NJ. of that city. The court will
be composed of Col. L. II. Kendall and
Lieut. Col Chas. Collins of the First
| Infantry and Col. +. f. Newcomb ana
Lieut. Co Frank NJ. Hume of the Sec
ond Infantry. and Col. VIM. Il. Skel-
ton. judge advocate general.
The furnishings of the Council
chamber have recently received val
liable addition in the shape of "A hand
some refrigerator. for the purpose of
- 1Y-ir II inu
The refrigerator is of mahogany, to
match the other furnishings OF the
chamber. and is about four feet in
| height being neat in design, ana very
ornamental In the lower part of the
refrigerator is Il large tank for the
accommodation of Waste water while
| the upper part contains the water re-
ceptacle. This is of marble. ana IS SO
| arranged that the ice is packed arounh
| it instead of being placed in the water.
On the front is a silver faucet ana
below it a tray to hold the glass, the
tray being supplied with stralhef
| to catch the waste water. The re-
frigerator was furnished at the sug-
| restion of Councillor Bisbee, and was
made in Portland.
| The fish and game department. hdS
made a contribution to the EXHIBIT 10
| Be made at the coming sportsmen
show. which will be held at the Me-
chanic building in Boston, from Dec
| p to JAN s. the specimens loaned be-
ing the head of a large COW moose and
some samples of beaver cutting. The
moose head is the one which hangs at
the right of the entrance to the, de-
partment. and is probably the largest
| and best specimen of a cow moose head
that is owned in the State.
| Prof. E.. F. Hitchings, State entomol-
| ogist WAS at the Capitol, yesterday. on
business connected with his forthcom-
| ing report, which will be included IN
that of the agricultural department.
Prof. Hitchings will go to Bar Har-