The Forrest City times., 1909-12-17
Public Asked to Giye..Money for ,More Houses for Tuberculosis Saniiarinm :
To the People of Arkansas.

To the People of Arkansas:
 The last legislature appropriated s50.000 for the erection of tuberculo- sis sanatorium and s30.0oo for two years maintenance of the institution. unfortunately there was no money III the treasury available for this ap- propriation and the Board of Trustees had 10 wait to see whether the appro- priation would be available in 1910. While waiting the board solicited propositions for q suitable site and sent the superintendent to visit the leading sanatQria in the United States. , After examining many sites gener- ously offered. the board selected the one offered by the people of Bonneville The tract donated is ,000 acres in the pine ridges. three miles south of Bonneville. It contains three small farms and an orchard in all over l00 acres oi cultivated land. It's altitude k about goo feet and it k free of mal- r1;siia. Tie scenery is rugged and beautiful, the air pure and the water is goo,it
 investigation shows that the apprt. priattqn will be available next year and the board las arranged to get the n0heY without delay.
 ASa result Ui the visits of the sup erintendent. the board k in possession iof the most approved methods of san- atorium construction and la, the plans Of all the leading institutions of the United stated 70 choose from. 1 From these the board has selected these buildings for immediate con struction:
 An administration building which includes rest rooms. reading room and solarium, physicians offices. dining rooms. kitchen and rooms for nurses. attendants and ylsitors: one ward room for T patients rnodeled on the one muse at the Gnited States Ma rine hosital at Fort Lyons. Col, two cottages for eight patients each copied | rom the Cragmor sanat0rium Ut l Colorado Springs, four cabins. also copied from Gragmor. two eight.room cottages on the plan Of the White Haven sanatorium. ohe of Pennsyl- | yania's leading institutions. and live tent houses modelled oil those in use at the government sanatoriom at Fort stanton, New Mexico
 These different houses have bean adopted to meet varying conditions. and each represents the best type of it's kind
 Contracts for the erection of these buildings are expected to be let by the board on December 2s, pursuant to advertisements now being publish shed lh addition to these buildings the board intends 10 install at once q cen. tral heating plant, complete water. sewerage and drainage system and to build a superintendent cottage. a dairy and laundry and other necces- sary buildings to make a complete es- tablishment, so that after this heavy | initial cost the growth of the institu- tion will be entirely in houses for pa tientS.
 This work now planned and furnish ing the house will exhaust. and more. the appropriation for construction, and only seventy patients are provided i for
 This appeal is made to the people 10 | supplement the appropriation for do- | nations with which to oerect additional l houses for patients.
 The cost of these houses are ap- proximately: Ward room for 24 pa tientS, 5000: Cragmor cottage for eight patients, 5000: White Haven | for eight patients, Sl, 300: Fort Stan | ton tent house for two patients, s275: Cragmor cabin for one patient. s250 l
 Thus It IS seeH that for S250 one ad- | dltlonal cabin can be built: for S275 | an additional tent house for two pa tlents can be built, and for S5O 000 100 | more patients can be added and so on. 1
 In order to take far advanced cases ! an intirmary will have 10 be built and | one adequate to the institution would | cost al least Sl5, 1000 Gntil that k done such cases can not be.taken. and . that k unfortunate, for those should | be cared for in sanatori0m d. wea.as those in which cures may be expect l ed.
 The act provides that patients able to pay shall be charged regular sanator ium rates, and those rates will,be put at actual cost something like s40 or so per month. And the actEfurther provides that anyone unable to pay shall, on the certificate of his county judge to that effect, be received and maintained free. In these ways the doors of hope will be opened to every man and woman in Arkansas suffering from tuberculosis except the l far advanced cases and as soon as money pap hn pht aipa6 for on ipfir,,,ar,, II l