Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-31
IOWA CITY GETS N
Selected as the Site For the New
State Tuberculosis
Hospital
BOARD REACHES A DECISION
Will Close Option on $50 Acres of Land
Five Miles From city-Location on
the Cedar Rapids nterurban Line
Plans to Be Drawn and Work Com
menced at Once.
.cial to Times-Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Dec. 31.--Iowa City, be-
cause of its laboratory. at the State
University, has been selected as the
site for the tuberculosis hospital which
the state proposes to build.
The location was determined by the
state board of control Saturday even
ing and the deeds and abstract for the
purchased land will pass today.
The site includes ESQ acres of land
five miles n3th of Iowa City and the
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City interur-
ately situated is the property that the
depot of the interurban will be located
closely adjacent to the site which the
board of control has selected for the
main or administration building of the
new institution.
While possession will be given the
state March i, possession for building
purposes will be acquired Immediately
and the plans will be made by State
Architect Liebbe at once for the build
ings. The board of control has decided
upon the erection OF main building to
be used for administrative and kim
dred purposes. and will then erect a
large number of mere shells for open
air living of the patients under treat
ment
1t is planned to open the institution
T,,l, fn,. he
purchase of the site became available
last July 1. In the next six months
the board of control has visited in
spected and considered perhaps 100
different sites.
The site is on an interurban, and
upon this the board insisted. The Ce-
dar Rapids-Iowa City. line runs cars
every hour. These will pass the main
door of the institution. The company
has contracted to build depot at the
site selected by the board of control
and to put in switch to the institu-
ton coal houses, without cost to the
state. The fare from Iowa City prob
ably will be fixed at 20 cents for the
round trip.
Not only will the institution have
the interurban facility, but at Cedar
Rapids there is connection with the
main line of the Milwaukee and North
western railroads, and branches of the
Rock Island and Illinois Central; While
at Iowa City there is the main line Of
the Rock Island and the old Burlington.
Cedar Rapids & Northern and at West
Liberty connection with the Burlington.
The Cedar Rapids-Iowa City interur-
ban is now petitioning the interstate
commerce commission for joint rates
with steam lines and may become a
continuous connecting line for all OF
these main trunk roads.
But an additional feature which ap-
pealed to the board of control was the
fact that location of the hospital near
Iowa City would give the state the
benefit of the scientific equipment OF
that institution.
The hospital is more or less educa-
tional in character. 1t is new thing
in the west. The open air treatment
for the white plague has been demon
strated, but in Iowa it is something
unique. The medical department of the
university will take a deep interest IN
the development of the institution. The
department will find advantage, also, IN
study of the disease at close range. an
advantage which the people of the
state will enjoy, eventually The OBJ
servation by the medical department
will return ten fold in value to the
people.
Moreover, the medical faculty of the
institution has volunteered the service
OF its members, free Of charge, in the
treatment of all surgical cases which
arise in the hospital. They will give
their time and labor for this state in
stitution on account of being connect
ed with the university.
The state meteorological laboratory
is located in connection with the state
university. This department will do
all of the tuberculosis hospitals work
free of charge to the state. This will
save the board of control the expense
of establishing a new meteorological
laboratory.