Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-26
VISIT STATE sANATORIUM.
A Joint Legislative Committee Make
aTOur of Inspection. Probably
New Road to BE Built.

New Road to He Built.
A joins legislative committee made its
first official visit to the State Senatorium
for Tuberculosis Diseases last Thursday
week. It was cold day aud the warm
bIooded aw-makers WINGED during the
drive oyer the rough roads leading to the
Senatorium on the mountain above Glen
Gardner. When they got there they WINGED
more, says the Washington N. J.. Star.
The windows were lowered and the
cold air came in in such draughts that they
shiyered during their entire stay. Even
when they sat down to dinner, the win
dows were allowed to remain open and
they were heartily glad when the time came
to leave. They all expressed the hope that
they would never become consumptiYes and
be obliged to take the open air treatment.
especially in the winter time.
The committeeman were invited to the
sanatorium ostensibly to look it over care
fully, but principally to have it explained
TO them that there is need of good road
way from the station to the institution.
The present road winds around the noun
tain over rocky route for two miles. It
is in very poor condition, and any one rid
ing over it would find it the best cure for
ssspring feverp imaginable. The board of
directors. however, want better road,
running over a different route, which they
have already had surveyed, and which they
say will cost about SIS, 900 or $50, 600. The
sanitorIum property consists of $50 acres
and runs all the way down to the railroad
tracks, so the proposed road would trayerse
no other property. The visitors were
favorable to the proposition, and Senator
Bradley, who marshaled the visiting for
ces, intimated be would father the desired
legislation.
There were 81 patients in the sanitorium
and none of them were in what they call
the hopeless stages Of the disease. 10 fact,
as has been explained, no one is admitted
who is regarded as hopeless The poor and
well-to-do are admitted alike, and both
have the same privileges and must submit
to the same rules. No requirements are
placed upon any one who desires to enter.
Those who can afford it are taxed $5 week
for board, and those who cannot, haYe only
to make affidavit before the county Judge
in the district where they live that they
are INDECENT. Previously they must have
been examined by their doctor, however,
who must, also, make affidavit that they
are consumptiyes only, and that they have
no other malady, and that their cases are
not hopeless The INDECENT are, also, told
that it would be better for them to bring
overcoats and heavy outer clothing with
them, but if they have not these they are
furnished for them at the sanatoTium by
the State. 1t was said that it cost the
State an average of $12 week per patient
to run the institution. The oldest patient
there was man fortY-eight years of age,
and the youngest an eleyen-year-old boy
from Passaic. There were two colored pa
tients and four from Newark
Two hundred quarts of milk are consum-
ed every day at the sanatorum. The pa
tients will be urged to help the cultivation
and dairy process as method of exercise,
and as many of them as can will be put to
work in the fields. The whole plan will
be simply in the nature of exercise for the
inmates.