The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-30

torium, this partially rejuvenated farm and the smoothly running machinery of the whole plant.
 The medical board, while being com pelled, for the sake of some patients who could be cured, to refuse admit l ltance to some who could not be cured. still has been very lenient and follow ed no hard, fast rules, but has admit ted every patient whom it thought could be helped, provided he could pro- cure, or for whom we could procure, the required seven dollars 3 week. However, in our necessary refusals I do not know of any patient or physi- elan that the board has offended, al- though it is at times little difficult to please everyone.
 Now, to substantiate my felicitation in the opening paragraph of this re- port, let me say that, through the fresh, clean air at the Gaylord farm, through the good, nutritious food fur nished by the state of Connecticut and the various donors to this institution, and through the medical care of pr. Lyman and his efficient staff, We have returned to active usefulness fifty per cent. of all classes of patients received at the sanatorium, and this includes incipient, moderately advanced and far advanced cases. Patients who have been away from us less than six months are not included in the above percentage.
 This is a record that is inspiring and should stimulate each and every one of us to do more for this institution that has shown so we'll what can be done in our own climate for the disease of tu- | berculosis. It is not possible but that some of this fifty per cent. of patients able to return to work will relapse and some finally die of the disease but let us realize what this means of disease | that not long ago was considered in curable. and now can be made to show fifty per cent. of cured or progress arrested cases.
 Of all patients who have been at the sanatorium forty-four have died Of these thirty-two were far advanced when received many were hopeless cases and taken for training only, and some remained less than a month. Ten of the deaths were of cases moderately advanced when received, and only two Iof these forty-four were incipient, or what our charter says we expect to Itake. and one of these remained but a lmonth.
 All we have to say to the physicians lof Connecticut is to send us a greater humber of incipient cases and we will make this record half as good again Fro the public we say, give us more lmoney for maintenance; then we can keep curable cases longer than some are now able to stay. Then later give Jus money to increase our plant, and lstill later money to build a detention hospital where we can care for Tar ladvanced cases and then send them to the sanatorium if we find they can i'm prove. Please let no one mistake o1 upset this order-hrst, maintenance; then enlargement; then detention hospital.
 Since opening the institution In Sep tember, 1904, we have carefully exam lined S91 patients, of whom 261 have been accepted and 19O rejected. When lit is noted that in less than three years S91 citizens of Connecticut, suffering Iwith tuberculosis and financially un- liable to go to distant sanatoria, have ldesired admittance into this institu- Ition, and that fifty per cent. of the ac- lcepted cases have returned to work the question arises, What would have
 become of these patients if this sana'
 torium had not been in existence?
 The medical board wishes to thank
 the Connecticut Training School fol
 Nurses for sending us such efficient
 members of their school, and we trus
 that the nurses have found the worl
 as profitable for their instruction in th'
 care of pulmonary tuberculosis as oul
 patients have benefited by their skilled nursing.
 We wish to thank pr. G. w. F. Rem
 bert, who has been with us for flv'
 months, for his able assistance, and tc
 state that our Mrs. Burgess is still th' lmost efficient matron of the Gaylord IFarm sanatoriums