Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1909-12-22
URGE REFORMS
IN STATE FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Hospital and SanatOrium Facil-
tiles Called Inadequate by
Commission in Report.
Especial to the Newark Star. !

| Special to the Newark Star.1
TRENTON, Dec. 22.-The New Jer.
sey State tuberculosis Commission, ap
pointed by Governor Fort under an ac-
| of the Legislature of last winter has
made it's report After an investigation
of hospital conditions in this State fol
| the treatment of tuberculosis in its
various manifestations, the commits.
| sioners find that existing hospital and
/ sanatoria are inadequate. The report
is a concise document, containing many
recommendations The text of the re-
port follows
"Inasmuch as your commission finds
| that the existing hospitals and sana-
toria in this State are inadequate, that
the State Sanatorium for incipient
cases accommodates but 121 patients
and that additional municipal and
county sanatoria make a total pro-
vision ,for only $3.50 incipient cases, and
there is municipal and county provision
for only a similar number of advanced
cases, and that there were last year
3,749 deaths from tuberculosis in this
State. your commission recommends:
THAT the facilities at Glen Gardner
be increased by the addition of mod
crate shacks.
THAT provision be made at Glen
Gardner for arrested cases, as at Eudo-
wood Sanatorium. Maryland by con-
verting one of the farmhouses into a
residence for them, or by the erection
of inexpensive buildings for their ac-
commodations, the patients to do farm
or other work in connection with
the institution, thereby being self-sup-
porting until a cure is assured.
THAT an appropriation be made or
So coo for the erection of and equipment
of a separate shack at Glen Gardner
for the care of tuberculosis children, of
whom there are at present in the in
stitution seventeen under 16 years of
age. Also that provision be made for
school instruction of these children.
THAT the board of managers at Glen
Gardner, in order to save the State un-
necessary expense, be authorized to
make a very careful investigation of
the financial status of every patient
admitted, with the view of making
everyone able to do SO pay according to
his or her family's ability.
'"rhat the Legislature appropriate
$4,000 for .tuberculous work In this
State, the agent for carrying out the
work to be the State Board of Health,
the appropriation to be available by the
said board.
That the State Board of Health shall
use this appropriation for educational
and practical purposes; in the publica-
tion of literature and distribution OF the
same concerning this disease; In the
creation of and maintenance of a state
tuberculosis Exhibit which shall be at
the disposal of all communities in this
State applying for its use locally; in the
maintenance of a special tuberculosis
inspector whose duties shall be to en-
force existing laws concerning registra-
ton of tuberculosis cases to advise
local boards of health concerning dis
infection, to inspect hospitals and sana-
toria treating tuberculosis patients. to
report on same to the State Board Of
Health, and to perform such other
duties as may be ordered by the board.
THAT the State Board of Health take
up the question of the need of rural
nurses to do educational and practical
work in communities specially desig
mated.
THAT the state Board of Health, Ii
granted above powers, accept the CO.
operation of the New Jersey Associa-
tion for the Relief and Prevention of
tuberculosis, and that these bodies
work together.
1.-THE commission favors the establish
ment of county hospitals for advanced
and incipient cases at county expense,
as has been done in New York. accord
ing to an act of the Legislature, and
the establishment of municipal hos
pitals and sanatoria for advanced and
incipient cases at city expense. 1t does
not favor single State hospital for ad-
vanced cases.
ut recommends that the need of
further provision for advanced cases be
carefully considered by the State Board
of Health. and that the place and num-
ber of hospitals be designated by that
body.
"The commission recommends, on
part of the municipalities. provision for
arrested cases and those discharged
from public institutions, such provision
to be In the form of inexpensive shacks
in which patients can live comfortably
at moderate cost and continue their
usual pursuits of life"
The report is signed by all members
of the commission, as follows: Bishop
James A. McFaul. of Trenton. chair
man; William c. Smallwood, secretary;
William G Schauff1er of Lakewood;
Mrs. Sidney NJ. Colgate, of East
Orange; Mrs. William S. StrylSer of
Trenton.