The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-23
State Board of Health Plans
Hospital for Consumptiyes.
Next Legislature Will Be Urged
to Establish One.
CHANCE FOR THE POOR
Those Without Money Will Re-
ceiYe Attention.
System Is Being Generally
Adopted in Other States.

A state hospital where sufferers
from consumption may be taken to
receive care at low cost, or at public
expense if they are unable to pay. is
plan which will be urged upon the
next legislature by the members of the
state board of control.
In a bulletin issued today, the board
gives the result of it's Investigations
concerning the tubercular hospitals In
other states, and announces that the
tubercular hospital under state con-
troll is being rapidly adopted in all
states.
At the last session of the legislature
two bills providing for state hospitals
for the great white plague" were in
troduced, but owing to the pressure or
other matters which took precedence,
the tuberculosis hospital was lost
sight of and the bills failed to pass.
The expense of establishing a tuber-
cular hospital will not be large, as
the hospital will be located in western
Kansas where land is cheap, and the
buildings are of an inexpensive char
acter. The institution is arranged so
that the patients may live out doors
as much as possible, both summer and
winter The chief expense is in main
tenance, the board for the patients
being necessarily of an expensive
character. Those sick with consump-
ton who have any money are expected
to pay the cost of their board, while
no money can be sent to the hospital
at the expense of the county where
the patient lives, or at the expense OF
the state.
The board of control Classics the
present tubercular hospitals as follows:
Active state institutions in Massa-
chusetts, Missouri and New York.
An institution with partial state sup
port in Rhode Island.
State institutions are in process OF
erection in Iowa, Maryland, M1chlgan,
Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin and the
District of Columbia.
Laws authorizing new or additional
state institutions were reported from
Indiana, Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, North Carolina and Pennsyl-
vania.
Special wards in connection with
! state institutions, such as hospitals foI
the insane, reported from California
\ Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky
Louisiana, Massa achusetts, North Caro-
lima, Rhode Island, Virginia ana the
| District of Columbia.
The following states reported mu-
nicipaI or county institutions or de.
| tached wards in connection with pup
| lie hospitals, ETC., Illinois, Indiana
kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts
New York, Ohio and Oregon.
Private charitable and other institu-
tfons were reported from California
| Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, ore
1 gon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia
West Virginia and Ontario, Canada.
4 Private Institutions with state sub
sides were reported in Connecticut ane
| Pennsylvania
| Free special dispensaries for the
/ tubercular were reported in Delaware
and Ohio.
From many other states came re
norts of associations or societies o.
Various kinds and the existence of more
or less active campaigns, some O.
| which. as, for example, In Iowa ant
Vermont, were aided by state appro
| priationS.