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MODERN METHOD OF FIGHTING TUBER-
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ranged for a maximum of cubic feet of air
with perfect ventilation night and day. The
staff of the hospital numbers twenty-seven
eminent physicians and surgeons whose SER
vices are given gratis Most of them, by
the way have located in Denver because of
i'll health but they are now as well as the
heathiest among us. superintendent, two
internes to execute the orders of the staff.
seven nurses and several OrderlieS complete
the medical attendants.
The rules governing the conduct OF the
hospital are necessarily systematic. Discl-
pine is a necessary factor in the treatment
of all diseases and it cannot be relaxed in
tuberculosis. although patients at times
chafe against essential restrictions
The rules for admission into the hospital
are about follows:
Every applicant is required to make his
application to the trustee or director nearest
his place of residence. and such trustee or
director snail have the applicant examined
by a physician. Both the application and
medical examination are submitted to the
medical advisory board in Denver, who i'm
medately notify the director or trustee max
ing the application whether or not the pa
tient is admitted. All this can be disposed Of
in less than one week. however distant the
city may be. The patient, however, is not
permitted to come to Denver until the di-
rector or trustee is notified that there is
room in the hospital unless the cOmmu-
nifty sending the patient is willing to defray
his expenses outside of the institution until
there is room IN IL. In tne lattor case tnc
patient is cared for by member of the med
cal staff of the hospital and his medicine
supplied. The application must have the
guarantee of responsible person or society
that if the patient is to be returned the
funds for his return will be furnished;
if the patient after his discharge remain in
Colorado he shall not become charge upon
the community.
The patient is required to bring with him
certain wearing apparel necessitated by the
TO say that our mission at Denver ends
when we have dismissed the patient cured,
sumo his vocation, is simply species of
selfdeceptOn. We must never forget that
the larger number of patients who come to
the hospital Russian brethren, many
of whom are unacquainted with our language
strangers to American customs and IA
miliar only in trades which they cannot pos
sibly follow thereafter and retain their
health.
So that the care of these men and women
after they leave the hospital is much
mission to restore them to earning power.
In England commission recently discovered
that over half the children of Great Britain
starving and their bacKwardness was
due to the fact that the principle of mems
sana in corpore sano" had been sadly neg
ected The boards of education insisted that
their mission ended with the incucatiOn of
the three RS. All England arose in it's roar
ing might and insisted that the curriculum
include nOurshing food and that health be
made as much a matter OF education the
routine of study. The boards of education
and the boards of health now work in con-
junction.
While this is not problem the princi-
ple is the same The HOSPITALS mission can