Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-04-01
second Annual Report Of the Boar! of
Managers Of the Maryland tuberculosis
SamatOrium Received.

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SanatOrium Received.
During the past week we received the
second annual report of the State Tuher-
culosis Sanatorium, a portion of which
we reprint.
"Since the fling of the first annual re-
port, the Board has the satisfaction of
announcing that the saEatorium, as orig
inally planned, has been practically com
pleted; the equipment partially installed,
and limited number of patients have
been under treatment since September
first.
"The additional appropriation made by
the General Assembly of 1908 has enabled
the Board to complete the Administra
ton Building Dining Hall and lnfrmary;
to erect pavilons for patients, each one
containing twenty beds; to build a Power
House for heating, lighting and laundry
purposes; andaso cottage for the Farm
Superintendent and his assistants. In adj
dition, the officers and assistants quar-
tiers have been furnished; the dining hall
and cottage equipments completed, and
four patients pavilions and infrmary
have been put in commission and have
been supplied with beds, mattresses,
blankets, linen, etc, sufficient for hun
dred patients.
"The buildings, as now completed, con-
sist of the Administration Buildings eight
pavilions for patients forming the hos
pital group with additional room for
several more pavilions or cottages), and,
at some distance down the mountain the
farm group of barn and farmers house,
and one-quarter of a mile from the main
buildings, in direct line and out of view
near the railroad station, is the Power
Building.
The present patient capacity is in total
$50; 100 in the pavilions, and 70 in the
lnfrmary.
1.-The front part of the Administration
building contains the Offices, reception
rooms, physicians offices and examining
rooms, Office of the Superintendent of
Nurses and the staff dining room. In the
second and third stories are the bedrooms
for the staff. The rear part contains on
the main floor, large dining room for
patients, and in the basement the kitch-
en-, bakery, storerooms, refrigerating
plant, etc.
1.-THE power building is near the rail-
road station In this building is genera
ted all the power, light and heat for the
entire group. 1t also contains the laun-
dry, workshop, morgue, and in the upper
story two rooms for employees.
"The water system consists of a pump
ing plant, near the southern edge of the
State property, the water being forced
from several springs to the top of the
hill to reservoir, from which the water
is distributed to all the buildings.
'In order to complete the Institution,
the following must be accomplished with
in the ensuing year:
Building of the barn and the cow sta
BILE, together with outbuildings for pigs,
chickens, etc.
Building of recreation hall and IL
brary, where social diversions may be in
dulged in and where religious exercises
may be held on Sunday.
"Macadamizing the main road from
railroad station to the Administration
Building.
Fencing in the entire property.
with such work completed, the Board
does not hesitate to say that Maryland
will have one of the finest, most modern
and up-to-date institutions of this kline
in the country, for which this State
should be so justly proud.