Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-30
Improved Condition of Apple
cants Is Due to Educa-
tionaI Campaign.
WORK AT GLEN GARDNER
SANATORIUM EXPLAINED
Only Six Per Cent. OF Patients
Treated Last Year Failed
to Improve.
Ispeclsl % the Newark star.l

TRENTON, Dec. 30.-In the annual
report of the board OF managers of the
New Jersey Sanatoriuln for Tubercu-
lous Diseases. at Glen Gardner. which
has just been submitted to Governor
Fort. it is show in the report of DR..
Samuel 3. English, the superintendent.
cha the general condition of patients
admitted to the %sanatorium during the
last year has mucn improved we those
who were admitted before. This the
superintendent attributes to the educa-
tional campaign which a been con-
Quoted through the State for the pre-
vention of the disease.
Attached to the superintendent's re-
port is = statistical statement which
shows that there were cures effected in
30 per cent. of the cases treated during
the year, in A per cent. of the cases
the disease was arrested, in 10 per cent.
of the cases improvement was shown,
ana only in 6 per cent. was no improve
ment made. During the year n of
the patients died.
At the close of the fiscal year for 1908
there were 1903 patients at the institu-
tion, of which fifty-three were males
and fifty females. At the close of the
last fiscal year there were 127 patients
in the sanatorium, seventy-fiye of whom
were males and ffty-two females. Dur
ing the year us males and l42 females
were admitted, making a total of 800
who received treatment during the
year. During the same period 1856 males
and lao females were discharged.
p. nF fI,D Qe- onn1iaa ntc ufhO xUara evan
med during the year, 1853 were accepted,
172 deferred and S67 rejected. OF the
800 admitted eighty-three paid 50 per
week, and the remainder We're treated
at the expense of the State. Forty-two
patients left the institution after a resi-
dence of less han one month. and an
not be considered in the final results.
Some of these patients failed to react
10 tuberculin tests, others went home
or were unwilling to follow the rules of
the sanatorium.
During the yea the average daily
humber of patients who received treat
ment was 1885, with az average length
of residence of six and a half months,
which is an increase over last IA of
two months. The average gain in
weight per patient va fifteen pounds.
Two hundred and fifty-nine patients
gained in weight, and only twelve lost.
.-T-wcsaty-fotr, of the patients neither
gained nor lost weight.
Continuing, DR.. English, in his report,
says: THE general condition of the
patients admitted during the last year
has much improved over that of the
preceding, due, greatly, l think, to the
Increased agitation on the subject OF
tuberculosis and the awakening of the
people to the fact that permanent i'm
provement can better be obtained in
early cases. The educational feature of
the sanatorium has. indeed, been graft
flying. OF the patients applying for ad-
mission during the year 80 per cent.
have been sent to the examining sta
tions by former patients. We have
endeavored to follow up the course of
discharged patients, n while yet too
early to report upon them, very few
Of those leaving the institution with
our consent have had a relapse.
1.-THE amount of work done by the