The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-04-27

improving and would eventually re-
cover. For, incredible as it may seem,
We do have some good results despite
our crude imitation of the proper way.
We can give them lots of fresh country
air, but We cannot afford all the milk
and eggs we wish we could give them.
Oftimes Peter is robbed to pay Paul.
and some are deprived of theirs that
the consumptive may have his quota Of
our luxuries. -tz4.za Ill.,.
In deciding what would be the best
TO build for accommodating our tu-
bercular patients let us take the advice
of those who have had the care and
direction of our almshouses. To sum
up, in the first place, there should be
proper legislation giving the au-
consumptive when once he becomes a
town charge. Second, there should be
erected a building separate from
Springside, but under its management,
and so constructed that the inmate
can have the cottage treatment. Third,
the most important, give the manage
ment, money enough to maintain it
properly
THE GAYLORD FARM.
Gecture by DR.. David R. Lyman, of
the GAYLORD Farm Sanatoriun, Wal
lingford.) @
Although my object in meeting you
tonight is to try and set before you the
Importance to your community of the
Gaylord Farm Sanatorium at walling-
For - 1at, rs oIaS
the manner in which it works toward
that object, and the results finally at
tanned: yet must first say that to my
mind the needs of which DIR. Nader has
just spoken are by far the most press
ing. This is because, were our sana-
torium not in existence. many of our
patients would have sought others in
distant climates, whereas the destitute
and advanced cases have no hope open
to them here or elsewhere.
In the medical clinic of the New Hav-
en- dispensary alone there have been
rs cases of undoubted tuberculosis since
October last, and most of these We're
from homes of the poorest class, where
sunlight, air, and usually food were at
crowded together into one or more
rooms, the constant presence of that
one lingering case means certain death
to others in the home circle. It is the
greatest medical need of the city of
New Haven to-day that comfort and
care be provided for those cases Of
tuberculosis too poor to help them
selves: and at the same time that the
lives of countless others dependent on
them be guarded from this otherwise
almost inevitable ending,
But 7 would also add that there is
no work in which the outlook is so en-
couraging, or the results so definite and
so satisfactory, as in the prevention OF
tuberculosis, The possibility of its pre-
vention has been absolutely proven, and
the disease is steadily decreasing. But
we must not be satisfied with that.
Now when the work is already under
way; when modern buildings, with the
greatest interest in out-of-door pur-
suits and pastimes, and the awakening
of the people at large to the importance
of this question, all combine to aid us;
now is the time to take UP and con-
tinue this fight, till a case Of tubercu-
losis will become a feature of rare in.
terest in a medical clinic.
And in dealing with the problem lei
me beg Of you to regard the man who
has tuberculosis, and who has beer
properly taught how to care for himself
and others, not as a. menace to you, but
as shall later show you he is, as the
public good. Do not be afraid Of then
and shun them; rather instruct, hell
and encourage them. I have lived an6
worked for four years constantly sur
rounded by these people, and I tell 70,
that not only are they not a danger
but that the conscientious consumptivt
who has been taught what to do to pro
tect himself and others is a far safel
associate for you than your ordinary
friend about town here in New Haven
And while the viciousness of which DR.
| Nader speaks is present among hi.
class of patients, in my work among al
other classes have found courage
cheerfulness, regard for others and hui
man charity in its highest sense, suffi
cient to make a man glad to live ant
Z aH
| work among them. f
But my subject in the sanatorium a
Wallingford and its interest to the PEG
pie of your city. The sanatorium treat
ment of tuberculosis is no experiment
First instituted in 1854 by DR.. Breme
! in the little town of Goebersdorf in Sc
llesia, 1t has by constant and definit,
results in all lands and all climates jes
tablished itself beyond a question or (;
doubt as the best means at our dis
posal of curing and of preventing tu
bercuIosis. Started in this country b,
DR.. Trudeau at Saranac lake in 1885,
with one small Gotta ge and two pa
TENTS, there is now hardly state il
| the Union where these Institutions d,
not exist, and the need of them is no
where so urgent, so imperative, as her
| in the state of Connecticut The city o
New Haven alone has averaged 20
deaths a year for the past ten year
from this disease. vet the only place
/ in the whole region where cases Of tn
| berculosis are received are Springsid
and the sanatorium at Wallingford
with its 80 beds But, little as that ma,
seem, infinitely little as it really is,
want to show you that it is at least ;
start and in the right direction. =
The movement which eliminated il
the founding of the sanatorium was in
aurateds by the New Haven Count,
Medical association, developed by tn