Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-14
TELLS OF NEEDED
REFORMS IN GLEN
GARDNER HOME
Physician Declares Institution Is
an Extravaganza and of Little
Benefit to

several bad features of the Glen
Gardner Home and need of the imme-
date erection Of the proposed buildings
al soho, for treating tuberculosis cases,
along with Be~lleville's attitude toward
tie latter proposition, were discussed
by DR.. NJ. j.. Synnott, of Montclair, in
an address delivered last night at the
charities conference in Orange. Ii
looks as IL two or three years Will
elapse before the construction of the
Soho buildings is completed, he said.
DIR. Synnott read a letter written by
a prominent Montclair physician, who
declared there were not enough incur
able cases Of tuberculosis in Essex
county TO warrant the erection of more
buildings in Soho, and such expression.
demonstrated that there are many who
do not know the actual conditions Of
affairs. When the Soho hospital is
built, he said, patients will not be re-
moved there by force.
1T is difficult to get even an incipient
case In Verona or Glen Gardner" he
said. You need q political pull to get
an ~incipient case In Verona, Newark
having so many cases to send. Glen
Gardner is an example of extravaganza,
the home costing the State one-half
million dollars, while only a compare
lively small number of cases can be
treated. and great results are not ac-
complished. The buildings were put up
without even outdoor sleeping porches.
The present Board OF Freeholders is
honestly wiling TO push the work at
Soho to a completion, but there is u
snag now regarding the sewage ar.
iangements.
1T has been unofficially stated by
officials of Belleville that they are only
waiting for the request to come for con-
Meeting the buildings with the public
sewer so that ii can be refused. If
Believilie refuses the Legislature will
be asked to overcome the veto of the
municipality"
A reduction in the number of deaths
from tuberculosis was reported by
Health officer Selskar M. Gum, Of
Orange. There We're ffty-one deaths
In 1909 against siNty-four in 1898, and
seventy IN 1907, There was a decrease
of 80 per cent. in deaths from pneu-
monia. only twenty-six deaths re-
suited. The total death rate in the city
was 1910. In 1905 1t was 16.41. Mr..
Gum said the fight would be weak
cred If the tuberculosis ward at
Memorial Hospital was abandoned, or
by a delay of two or three a in
the erection of buildings at Soho.
DR.. Woods Hutchinson believed that
when tuberculosis was eliminated two
thirds of crime and disease wouldcease,
as the conditions which breed tuber-
culosis breed crime. If the average life
is worth $4,000 or 81 goo New York Is
losing annually $4,000 900. he said. He
and several other experts figured the
cost of wiping the disease out. 1t
would cost about SIG. 000, 900, he said.
Every municipality could do the same
at a cost of so per capita in ten years.
President Norman NJ. Ward, of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. League, CAV the
concluding address and told of the
educational work carried on by the
league during the year.. In the day
camp there were two patients who had
been refused entrance to Glen Gardner,
but after spending several weeks at
the institution they gained admittance
to the. home. Many nurses listened to
the addresses.