New-York tribune., 1908-08-10
RED CROSS DAY CAMP
Tuberculous Patients Vii BE Treat
ed ON Vanderbilt Clinic Roof.

day camp for tubercuIous patients viii :,
opened on the roof of the Vanderbilt Clinic ses
street and Amsterdam avenue. October l. h.
the American National Red Cross. in cooperate,
with the clinic. At least forty patients and pros
ably more. will be cared for the year round a,
first during the day only and afterward at nixst
also. The clinic will put the roof in condition ana
will furnish medical supervision for the camp ard
the New York County subdivision Of the stat,
branch of the Red Cross has undertaken to rais.
the sum needed to defray the expense of nurzi7x
attending and nourishing the patients. who VIII
be for the most part persons Of no means
This effort marks the entrance Of the New Yo-.
County Red Cross into the crusade against t11bs-
culosis Its camp will be the first Red Cross aax
camp in this city. The first Red Cross day cam
in the United States was opened in Schenectady I,
June another Is about 20 be opened in Albany. a
third is in Washington and another in Whining
ton. Del.
All of these camps have been. or are about Z,
be. established and others will in time be estsb-
Ished IN consequence OF the recommendation Of
the eighth international Red Cross Conference.
held last summer IN London. and OF he resolu-
tions subsequently adopted by the American Red
Cross and It's New York state branch and they fol
low the example set by the Red Cross societies %
Germany and Russia in making this holy war %
the twentieth century" its permanent peace
activity.
The day camp has come 20 be recognized as an
Indispensable part Of practically every progressive
plan for the relief and control OF tuberculosis Z.
stands midway between the dispensary with i,,
host of patients and the far away sanatoru,,
in the woods the hilltop. The dispensarY
treats maximum Of patients. and even with n.
best Of visiting nurses, gives minimum of sups--
vision. The sanatoriUm reverses the conditions
giving elaborate TO comparatively few patients
The day camp affords sanatortum treatment ara
rigid supervision during DAY. loses control
Of the patients FOR sixteen hours of the dav
though only during the time OF going and coming
and the evening and sleeping hours
The patients to be received at the Red Cross
day camp will be those suffering from the disease
IN its early and moderately advanced stages They
will be persons who have been unable % obtain
treatment and In many cases. even proper food
and who are without knowledge Of how to for
themselves at home. The Red Cross DAY camp
will supply them with food and afford them the
means OF obtaining rest, reasonably fresh air and
sunlight all of which are indispensable TO recov-
cry from disease.
Then for the protection Of themselves and % oth-
ers. they will be taught and 50 far possible
trained In heaIthfuI habits They will be ex-
pected to visit the camp daily and to stay for
period sufficient to effect A cure arrest Of
symptoms and will be kept under supervision for
some time after discharge that they may be
sure TO continue the care OF themselves IN hons
surroundings
The maintenance Of the first Red Cross day
camp will cost about $500 year. This will cover
the expense Of nursing forty patients daily-n the
aggregate probably several hundred during the
year-and indirect results will affect thousands
Of others For the new work to which II IS about
TO devote itself the Red Cross must depend upon
voluntary contributions and us officers say they
are confident that those contributions viii be re-
ceived in amounts sufficient 10 enable Il soon 10
conduct large number of tuberculosis camps
The officers of the New York County Subdivision
of the Red Cross President, Robert e. Ogden:
ce-presidents Schuyler y. Warren, Mrs Dougias
and TNhu X SHCTef7rT.
Charles H. Fem: treasurer. Jacob n Schif; chair
man of the executive committee. Miss Catharins :
Leverfch Contributions should be sent TO Jacob Il
Schifr treasurer No 800 Fifth avenue