The Jersey City news., 1906-06-30
/ jDERCULOSIS
HOSPITAL
ITsV !, :: State ] Institution at
! Glen / Gardner Will Be
! Ready Next May
WORK STEADILY PRoeREs sEs
Al COSTLY BUILDING SURROUND
NED BY, .BEAUTIFUI GROUNDS
AND EQUIPPED WITH EVERY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

r.Work ON the buildings that will con-
gtitute the State Tuberculosis Hospital
at Glen Gardner is progressing nicely
this summer, and the commission ex-
Dects to see the completion of the build
ings by the first of the year. Owing to
The failure of the last Legislature to vote
m appropriation for maintenance. it will
be impossible to open the institution tor
the reception of patients until May l.
1907, at the earliest. While the Legisla-
ture will meet and probably arrange for
a sufficient sum for maintenance early
next year, the fund will not be available
until May l.
When completed and in running order
the institution will be one of the fore
most of its kind in the country. AS the
law now stands it will be free to indi-
gent patients in the first stages of the
disease. but in order TO obtain admission
patients will have to be vouched for as
to their straitened circumstances, and
will have to undergo an examination at
the hands of official examiners to see
that their cases have not progressed too
far for admission to the hospital. 1t will
cost the State about nine dollars week
to care for each patient admitted, and
as the capacity of the institution is 1Oo
patients, without counting those that may
be cared for in emporary buildings, it
can be seen that the burden of housing
and giving medical attention to sufferers
is heavy one, and it is possible that
the present law will be changed so that
patients will be admitted only when able
to pay something for their care.
There are 600 acres of ground devoted
to hospital purposes and the buildings
are situated on the slope Of mountain
in one of the most beautiful spots in the
State. The elevation is $50 feet above
sea level and the buildings will be shell
tered by heavy woods from cold winds,
yet will be in the purest air to be had.
The permanent buildings will consist of
an administration building, servants
quarters and two payilions for the OPEN
air treatment of tuberculosis, each capa-
bic of accommodating ffty-four patients.
One will be set aside for the men, the
other for female patients. Besides, tenn
!, porary buildings, of frame construction,
Twill be erected as occasion demands them
tor use during the summer months. The
permanent buildings are being construct
ed of iron and stone
4 The commission in charge of the insti-
tuition now consists of DR.. Charles ].
Kipp, of Newark; DR.. Austin Scott of
New Brunswick; Dr. James S. Green, Of
Elizabeth; DR.. Elmer Barwis, of Tren-
ton; DR.. William S. Jones. of Camden,
and Mr.. A. L. Beavers, of High Bridge
There are two vacancies on the board
which the Governor did not fill last win
ter.
Until they know positively what the
maintenance appropriation will be, the
commissioners can ret say definitely
what will be done ia the way of treating
cases. The State has already spent
S250Oo0 on land and buildings, or has
contracted to pay out that sum, and has
appropriated the sum of $4,000 for
equipment. The hospital might have
been running now had not the Legisla-
ture been backward IN making appropri-
ations. 1t is likely that physicians will
be stationed in different parts of the
State to examine applicants for admis-
sion to the hospital and save poor people
the expense of the trip to Glen Gardner.
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