Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-09
.SANATORIUM FOR
TUBERCULOSIS HERE
THIRTY-SIX ACRES PURCHASED
ON PEACHTREE ROAD FOR ES-
TABLIsHMENT OF INSTITUTION.
DIR. KENDRICK, DIRECTOR.

A sanatorium that will be of national
interest in the treatment and cure OF
tuberculosis is to be established in Allan
ia. A company for that purpose has been
organized and has purchased a tract of 80
acres on Peachtree road between Buck
head and Silver Lake. Next week work
will begin on the erection of a plant
that will combine the perfected ideas OF
medical science and skilled architecture.
The site that has been selected is an
ideal one for it's object. 1t is from 100 to
200 feet higher than the city proper and
commands view of the entire county. 1t
is said, in fact, to be the highest point
between Atlanta and Norcross. Immedi-
ately adjacent is the Southern railway
station of Cross Keys, where a telegraph
operator is available at all hours of day
and night. The property was purchased
for the sum of $4,000 from Mrs. j. G..
Maness. 1t was formerly owned by w. 7.
Ashford and his family. Work on the
construction of the plant will be pushed
10 a rapid completion.
Fight is Universal
There is perhaps no single subject in
which America and the whole world are
so vitality interested today as tuberculosis,
the grim White Plague. 1t has at last
come to be realized that where other NAL
aides STAY their thousands, this Stays it's
tens of thousands. 1t is the chief prob
lem of cities and nations. Civilization has
awakened to the fact that every force Oh
science and benevolence must be united
and arrayed if the plaques advance is to
be beaten back. Hence, societies are be-
ing organized from one end of the globe
to the other, their aim being to save life
and end suffering. The treatment and
cure of tuberculosis is the absorbing topic
of the decade.
Coming, as it does, at the fioodtide OF
this movement which is social as well as
medical the Atlanta sanatorium Will
prove a signal event In the city's progress.
1t will represent the highest stage OF de-
velopment that this worldwide movement
has attained in the southern states. And
since it is to be located at point en-
joying the rare advantages of climate
and elevation that are Atlanta's, it will
undoubtedly become one of the great
American centers for the cure of the dis
ease.
This fact alone was largely instrumental
in the origin of the sanatorium idea. Its
promoters realized that Atlanta is lO0O
feet above the sea level, and that her av-
erage temperature the year round Is 6O9
degrees. For December the temperature
averages 44.6 dgrees and for August only
1911 The atmosphere is remarkably free
from that humidity which is considered
unwholesome to pulmonary troubles. The
sun shines balmily in mid-winter and tenn
perately in midsummer
The air is tonic The sky is blue three
fifths of the year. The water is pure.
Few spots on the map of the continent
are so happily adapted for people who
want to get well of tuberculosis. For
here, nature the ablest physician of all,
sits forever distilling her own medicine.
Will Prove Mecca
mill
attract patients from every section. For
the immediate southern territory it will
prove a mecca. 1t is a widely known
fact that Atlanta's climate is beneficial
both to people who come here from low
err ATTITUDES and from higher ones. To
the former it acts as needed stimulant;
to the latter II serves a certain healing
quality. And So, it happens that both
the man from Florida and the man from
the north increase in weight and general
vigor after so1ourning here a short while.
With all these natural advantages, the
sariatorium makes it's beginning. But it
will not stop there. Every device that
goes to the making of an up-to-date in
stitution of this kind will be installed.
The most competent specialists and
nurses will be secured.
DR. w. 8. Kendrick, of Atlanta, one OF
the foremost physicians of the section
has been selected medical director. DR..
Kendrick has had long years of expert
ence in the practice of medicine during
which time much of his keenest interest
has centered about tuberculosis. DR..
Louis NJ Gaines will be assistant medi-
cal director. He is a graduate of Johns
Hopkins school of medicine and is now in
| charge of the Home Treatment Dispen-
sary which cares for hundreds of tuber-
cular cases.