The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-25
WILL ACETATE NEW HOSPITAL Anti Tuberculosis League For Sanitorium. GOVERNOR DOES NOTHING Appropriation ef s40,000 is Avail
 able at Once. Dr. Griel Discusses Attitude and As- piratiens of Medical Asseciation. Many Sufferers in Alabama
 With Disease.

That the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Montgomery will do all in Its pow CT to persuade the Governor of Ala bama to let go the appropriation for State Sanitorium for consumption was indicated yesterday in an inter view with Dr. Gaston J. Griel. chair man of the executive committee of the Anti-Tuberculosis League. pr. Grlel declared that the league can do only half the work 1t would like to do when 1t has no sanitorium to which to send the suffering men and women who apply for aij
 we receive constant inquiries from patients in all parts of the State wanting to know if we have a place for them." said pr. Griel yesterday "A regular hospital is not fit place for tubercular patients. We have hop ed for more than two years that the Governor would see fit to authorize the expenditure of the s40.000 appro- priated in 1907 for a State Sanitorium. For some reason or other the matter has been delayed and so far as l am concerned I do not know when the necessary steps will be taken to build the asylum. know that only lately we have sent fifteen patients or more to the country because we had no place to take care of them--anj some, of them are of the curable class. But they will likely die a slow death with. out the care that might save them"
 pr. Griel showed several letters from different counties of the State writ ten by tuberculosis patients and rela- tives earnestly asking If the State or city had provided a sanitorium to take care of the sick ones Until the State Sanitorium Is constructed there will be no refuge for the poor who are suffering from consumption. Nor can there be, according to pr. Griel and other experts enlisted in the cause, any broad dissemination of information which would check the spread of the Great White Plague.
 Money Appropriated.
 More than two years ago the Legis- lature. with but little opposition. cre- ated a State Sanitorium for Consump- tives. Machinery was provided for or ganizing the official forces of the in- stitution and an appropriation of $40- 900 was made for the construction of the necessary buildings and the pur- chase of site and the necessary equipment There was also appropri- ated s1O,000 for the maintenance of the institution. It was provided that the Governor should disburse $20,000 by or before September 30. 1907: $1o,- eco by or before September 30, 1908; sb. 900 by or before September 30. 1909. and sS.oOo by or before September 80. 1910 tTA
 This appropriation Is made in the usual Language of other general acts Sf the Legislature appropriating mon ley out of the State Treasury. Law yers who have read the law carefully declare that there is no discretion in the Governor to postpone the drawing of warrants necessary to start work on the asylum. It has been the im- pression among the physicians of the State who are members of the Ala bama Medical Association, that the act provided that the Governor could proceed in the business whenever the Treasury condition justified it. This Is now denied as nothing in the Code can be found which ties any strings on the appropriation.
 The state Medical Association at one time took a hand in the matter and urged action on the part of the Gov ernor. He went so far as to name the five members of the Board of Trus- xees besides the Governor and the State Health Officer who are chair man and secretary respectively. The members of the Board are Dr. Glen Andrews, of Montgomery; pr. B. L. Wyman, of Birmingham; pr. G. T, McWhorter. of Riverton; Hon. H, F.. Reese, of Selma, and MT. Marbury, of Birmingham
 pr. Andrews when seen yesterday said that not a dollar had been spent of the $40,0O0 appropriated sos far as he knew. He only knew that he had been appointed a member Of the Board and he did not expect anything 4oj be done until the Governor called the Board together. This had not been done
 Up to Governor.
 It is regarded as pretty certain that no action can be taken until Governor Conner as chairman. calls the Board together The law provides that the trustees shall select and buy "a tract Of land not less than 160 acres. in healthful locality. with good natural drainage and an abundant supply ol good water. and shall cause to be erected thereon the necessary build ings for residences. laboratories. store rooms. barns. stables, cottages for pa tients and all and every structure ol thing necessary for the proper con duct of the asylum"
 It would seem from this section oi