The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-09
FREE DISPENSARY
 OPEN TO PUBLIC
Anti' Tuberculosis Society Begins Business With a Complete Outfit for the
 Detection of the Disease.

The free dispensary of the Fairfield County Anti-Tuberculosis Society was opened to the public this morning. The rooms, which have been cut off from the drill hall on the upper floor of the Police and Charities building, are unusually pleasant. They have been painted pure white and furnish ed with sanitary fittings. Everything IS spick and span. Miss Mary A. tmnegan is the nurse in charge. She IS a graduate of the training school at the Bridgeport hospital. The office of the society will be removed to one of the rooms and all the business of the society will be transacted from there in the future. In one corner of the examination room are the appliances for the examination of the throat and nose. The room also contains all of the necessary apparatus for the exam inatiOn of tuberculosis patients and for the discovery of the existence of the disease.
 Another room has been fitted up as a waiting room. The furniture throughout the dispensary is of iron covered with white enamel. An iron screen and a set of Bertillon scales are part of the outfit. The staff is made up of 25 physicians of the city who serve without compensation. The office hours It the dispenSary will be 12 to 1; to 6 and z to D. m. daily except Sundays, when the place will be open to the public from g to 10 a. m. and from to D. m.
 The latest methods of diagnosis will be used and the results of recent re- searches will be utilized by the pl1y- Sicians in charge. Dr. Herman ShulZ has donated the use of his high power microscope for the examination of sputum which is the principal medium of the spread of the disease. Patients who apply will be examined for traces of tuberculosis, although they may be suffering from some other disease at the time. The results of the exami- nation will be noted and the patients will be informed as to what to do. In some cases they will be referred to their family physicians. In others to sanitariums or specialists. No pa- tient will be turned away no matter from what disease he is suffering. The physicians of the dispensary and the nurse will make calls at the resi- dences of patients where they are un- able to call at the dispensary.
 A complete outfit of the necessary implements is kept at the dispensary. Antiseptic cups for the sputum and other appliances necessary are dlstrib- uted free of charge. The society has had neat folders printed which give complete instructions to patients. What
 
 in the plainest terms and great stress is placed on fresh air and sunshine as better than medicine in the fight against the disease.
 The officers of the society want the residents of the city to understand that the institution is organized purely for their benefit and that everyone fs well come to visit the dispensary for ex- animation or to investigate for their own benefit. The society courts the widest emination of information concerning it's work and methods. It is purely philanthropic movement or ganized to stamp out the deadliest of all disea ses. This has been proven possible through the discoveries of in- vestigators and it has been completely demonstrated that it is possible to cure the disease and eventually to stamp it out entirely. The movement is more than corrective, and it's main object is the dissemination of knowledge concerning the disease and it's remedies.