Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-14
FORS|A|E SANNAR|UN
Executive Committee of the
State tuberculosis Associa-
ton Holds a Meeting
DRAFT LAW FOR A STATE HOME
IL Waa Decided to Ask the State Leg
isiature for an Appropriation Of
$4,000 for the Purpose of Building
a sanitarium, Whore tho Tubereu-
'Iosis Patients May Be Treated.


Iosis Patients May Be Treated.
Des Moines Nov. 14-The executive
committee of the state tuberculosis as
ISOLATION met in Des Moines yesterday
to draft the bill for the establishment
Of a state sanitarium for the treat
ment of persons afflicted with con-
sumption. The pertinent points Of the
proposition are outlined in the forego-'
ing, 1t being decided to ask an appro-
priation OF $4,000, to leave the Ioca-
ton OF the hospital to the board of con-
troll and to arrange the establishment
so that it will accommodate not less
than 100 patients simultaneously.
AS to whether the institution shall
be supported wholly by the state, In
part by the state and in part by the
patients, or altogether by the patients
remains to be settled The committee
is not agreed on the point. The ques-
ton Of whether to make some Of the
patients pay and treat others free, and
whether to treat all alike and require
counties to pay, collecting from those
patients who are able to pay, are in
volvetl in this consideration.
The members of the executive COM
mlttee are Governor Larrabee, DR.. Il.
L. Stevens, Of Des Moines, DR.. ]. w.
Kline OF Fort Dodge, Dr.. e. q. Dorr OF
Des Moines, Senator A B. Funk and
Judge l.. g. Kline Governor Larrabee
and Senator Funk were unable to at
tend the meeting which adjourned at
9 o'clock last night
DIR. Kline said yesterday that he fall
ed to understand why there should be
any opposition to the suggestion which
he recently made to the state board OF
health that consumptive teachers and
scholars be removed from the public
schools. AS look at It," he said,
there Is no ground for opposition and
no occasion for alarm that such a step
should be proposed or taken by the
board. It should be done, and 1t will
be done within a very short time, for
the simple reason that it is right and
proper.
Conditions Are Bad.
I'VE are all aware that tuberculosis
is spread most rapidly among those
who are confined indoors with a con-
sumptive. / mean with the average
consumptive, say teacher. or a schol-
ar in the public school, They are I'M
instructed in the care of their sputum,
the bacill live for many hours within
the room, children who always are
more susceptible to the disease than
others are brought in contact with
these germs, and there Is undoubtedly
more or less danger. / do not want
my child to drink from cup after u
consumptive teacher, or playmate, or
other person. or to sit beside a tuber-
culous person for hours each day. Be-
sides, why should consumptive schol-
ar remain in school? In year or two
under ordinary management, he will be
dead. and the teacher will likewise have
gone hence 1t is a kindness ito the
remove him from the schools that he
may take advantage of the only chance
that is left him for lHe--a life in the
open air and sunshine.
Furthermore, such persons are I'M
deniaibly sources of danger to the chill
dren confined in the room. six hours
each day. Recently, was consulted
concerning the removal of teacher
from the schools at Clarion because
she was consumptive. believe the
teacher was finally dropped short
time before she died with the disease
It would not be strange that cases
in that school may yet come from this
same source It is not an unusual
thing for consumptive scholars to at
tend school when far advanced with
the disease. They are a source of dam
ger to those about them. 1 know Of no
rea sonable argument for placing such
teacher in our schools and then COM
polling our children to go there for
| many hours each day when we know
| that such intimate and prolonged con-
tact is dangerous to them.
Denies Certificate Plan.
~ note that 1t was announced that l
proposed to have every teacher and
scholar have a certificate from a phy-
stefan that tuberculosis was absent in
each case before the schools should be
open to them. No such thought was
ever advocated. What I proposed was
this: That where teacher is known
to have consumption or where a schol-
ar is known to be suffering from the
disease, the schools shall be closed to
them. This believe to be right and
shall still urge its adoption"