The Jewish outlook. (Denver, Colo.) 1903-1913, 1905-09-15


be chosen by the contributors of the hospital.
This substantial encouragement was an in
centve to other Jewish organizations, not
ably the Jewish Womans Council, the Free
Sons of Israel well as the federated Jew
ish charities of Cincinnati, Chicago Cleve-
land, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and
st. Louis to contribute annually to the hos
pital. However, the greater part OF the $4u,-
900 for it's yearly maintenance is gathered
from the six thousand subscribers in vary
ing sums and in cities other than those men
toned. The Constitution Grand Lodge at its
meeting in New Orleans last March gener-
ously increased the per capita subventlon OF
the hospital to 40 cents. making the annual
contribution of the B'nai K~ith about $4,000.
The total cost of grounds, buildings and
equipments is $135,00O in round numbers.
This includes the main building, containing
administrative quarters. operation room,
laboratory, the women's quarters ana the
male infirmary, kitchen, cold storage plant,
boiler house. modern appointed laundry.
dining hall, sterilizing building and the Gug-
genheim pavilion The Guggenheim pavl-
ion is a model structure for tuberculosis
male patients. 1t has examination rooms,
shower and needle baths, etc. 1t was con-
structed by M. Guggenheims sons at cost
of $4,000. The hospital has accommOda-
lions for ninety patients. who remain from
six months to year and who are sent to
Denver from all sections
Consumptive patients, in their incipient
stages, as is well known. require nutritious
titles. An average of eighty five patients
consumed forty dozen eggs a day, $4,000 in
milk ana $4,000 in meat during the past
year.
The National Jewish Hospital for Con-
sumptives has been criticized because it's
rules insist that only patients in the durable
stages of tuberculosis shall be admitted Yet
if those whose compassion leads them
thOughtlessly to condemn this wise condi-
ton would pause and reflect, the deep and
abiding sympathy which stirs within them
would prompt them to commend most heart
lily this very rule which framed out of
consideration for the lot of the hapless vic
tins in the advanced stage of tuberculosis.
Physicians have often exposed the fatal mis-
take of sending to Colorado consumptives
whose systems have long been undermined
by the insidious attacks of tuberce bacili.
The high and dry sunny altitude, Gods most
precious gift in incipent cases, is often a
for those in advanced stages of the
disease Heart trouble is added to their suf-
fering and hastenS their end in lonely ag
Ony. TO send poor conSumptiveS to Den
yer, far away from home, regardless of their
condition, is than crime.
Misery loves the company of wife ana child,
and perhaps the sick poor, during their
closing hours, feel the pans of separation
with sorrow that luxury knows not of. The
with wife and children at the bedside is a
consolation all the more sacred and precious
to those for whom life has nothing else
worth living for. To deprive the helpless
denizen of the little upper room of a tene-
ment house of this last CLINT of joy, to trans
port him to distant Denver, stranger in
strange land. is pitiable attempt at per-
forming a service. Far better for the ad-
vanced consumptive to bear the ills he has,
surrounded nv family and friends than TO