Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-27
Indiscriminatc Admission to
tuberculosis Hospital Will
Not BE Permitted
MUST FILE APPLICATIONS
Only Incipient Cases to Be Treated,
and These Must Undergo Two Ex-
aminations Hospital Treatment
for Each Case to Extend Only Six
Months-Not All Gratis.
Special to TIMES Republican.

Special to es-NepubliCan.
/ Des Moines, Jan, 21.--A proclamation
will be issued soon by Governor Cum
lmins announcing that the tuberculosis
hospital at Iowa City is ready to re-
ceive patients. This proclamation will!
4 be issued as soon as the state board
ernor of the fact that the hospital is
ready and this will be done in a few
days. The date of opening will be
February 1, as is been previously
/ announced.
| Contrary to the impression that has
| gained prevalence over the state, how
| ever, this does not mean that all per-
sons who think they are afflicted with
! tuberculosis can at once get on the
mtted to the tuberculosis hospital to
remain their as long as they wish.
The state law is specific as to this.
| Before a person can be admitted to the
| il. spital he must write to Superintend-
ent II. T.. Krschner and from him OBJ
tain blank. This blank must be filled
| out by the patient and by the local
/ physician whom DR.. kirschner ap-
In ints to make the examination. When
(, the local physician has made the eX-
animation if it is found that the pa
! tient is in the advanced stages of the
disease he cannot be admitted. If in
/ the incipient stages the patient can
| then go to Iowa City where a second
examination is made. If DR.. kirschner
| finds it is an incipient case the patient
| is allowed to remain. The local fee
which the local physician who makes
the first examination receives is fixed
lat So and this must be paid by the pa
tient. The patient must also pay his
expenses to the hospital.
If a patient is found to be in the in
cipient stages of the disease he is al
lowed to remain at the hospital about
six months unless cured before that
time. 1t is found in the treatment of
tuberculosis that unless the patient
begins to recover by that time there is
little hope. Furthermore, the hospital
is intended primarily to be place
where the patients will be taught how
to take care of themselves. They wilt
be taught how to take the "open air"
treatment and what kind of food to
eat. Some times there are other dis
eases than tuberculosis which lead to
or aggravate tuberculosis When this
is discovered the patient will be treat
ed for these. Once educated to the
treatment the patient will be expected
to return home and carry out the treat
ment there. 1t is the idea that the
eradication of tuberculosis is to de-
pend very largely on the education of
the people of the state to right meth
DDS of living. Some patients and their
friends have the idea that they will
enter the hospital and remain there all
the rest of their lives. This is not
right They will be allowed to remain
till improved sufficient to leave and BY
this method the board hopes to edu-
cate the state.
The state law provided that such per-
sons as are able to pay for their treat !
ment shall be charged. The board Of
control has decided to fix the charges
at $50 month, which is the amount
the state legislature appropriated asI
the support fund. If there are those
who are able to pay some but not $50
month they will be allowed to pay
what they are able to pay. Persons
not able to pay anything will be re-
quired to bring certificate to that eff
feet from their local board of health if
in town or from the township trus- |
tees if out in the country.
The hospital at Iowa City is to be
used as part of the scheme of educa-
ting the people of the state to the
proper modes of living in the cam
paign against tuberculosis just as the |
distribution of literature and the de-
ivering Of addresses over the state is
expected to be.
Governor Cummins will be one of
the speakers at the Mason City meet !,
ing on Tuesday evening, Jan. 90. The
governor will have to take the night |
train that night for Chicago, where
he is to make an address and it was
first thought that he could not be in
Mason City. Arrangements have been
made, however, to take him across |
the county by automobile to Nora |
Junction. where he can catch a Rock |
Island train at 10 o'clock and thus
make Chicago. This will give him an
to remain in Mason City /
for the meeting. He will make but a
short address at that time and the
address will be delivered by
Judge S. F. Prouty.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil stated
recently that every Allison club that
has been formed has for its president
man who supported Cummins in
1906 This is true with two eXcep-
lions There have been three Allison
clubs formed. One at Davenport with
Joe Lane as president, one at Cedar
Falls with Jarnagin as president and
one at Council Bluffs with Harl as
president Joe Lane supported Cum
Minis for governor in 1906, the other