Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-05
BUILDING Al
SANATOR|UM IS
PROGRESSING
.SHORTLE INSTITUTION TO
BE GREATLY ENLARGED
Albuquerque Climate Best in
World, Opinion Of Physician
Who Has Had Wide Exper-
fence Abroad.

Work Is commencing in earnest on
the new building Of the Albuquerque
Sanatorium. The stone work on the
basement and foundations has been
completed and III carpenters ana
brick masons are rushing the work
on the main structure.
The new building is to be of the
same type as the main building built
two years ago. It Will be OF Span
ish renaissance architecture, brick
ana stone with pebble dash exterior.
Spanish tile roof ana with rooms for
twenty additional patients. IT VIII be
modern in every way, with electric
lights, central heat, call bells. hard
wood floors, hot and cold water In
each room and each with large pri-
vato sleeping porch with double doors
SC arranged that the bed can be
taken into the room IN q bad night
or when for any reason II is desirable.
The furniture, as in the main build
ing. will be either solid OAK or ma
hogany. In TACT everything about the
place will be the best and modern.
The arrangements for heating and
ventilating have been particularly
/ mont is under the entire building, and
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age. laundry, etc.
The cottages that formerly stood
east Of the central building ave been
moved Ia a stone terrace west of the
building Gffcrding az unObstructed
view Of the city and valley.
When the building now under way
is completed. there win be room for
something over forty patients, and
while it may not be the largest, it
VIII be the best built, best furnished
and most substantial institution for
tuberculosis in the southwest. Every
arrangement for properly carrying
cut the climatic and hygienic as well
as the medical treatment will be pro-
vidcd FOR.
Dr. Shortlc came here less than
three years ago after a long expert
cnce in this work. both in America
and in Europe. Thinking his rea-
sons FOR seiccting Albuquerque, above
all other points OF the southwest
would be OF interest, q reporter asked
the doctor why he had made the
selection.
81 chose Albuquerque" he said.
First on recount Of its climate.
There seem to be We qualities, either
nf which will make g locality q favor
able resort for tubercular people.
one Is dlyness, the ether a certain
altitude. Egypt and Algiers In the
old world, Phoenix and Tucson in this
country are good examples of the
first, but they are too low in altitude.
Davos Platz end other resorts in the
Alps have favorable attitudes and are
successful resorts. yet would be vastly
more so, were it not for their heavy
rains and damp climate. Albuqusr-
que, combines both features as does
no other place IN the United states,
or the world so far MS l have yer
been able to learn, II a an altitude
almost exactly that Of Davos Platz.
tho most noted place in Europe, and
besides has the lowest humidity and
least rainfall of any place in the
United States ct an altitude SO high"
Another feature that is quite as
important as climate is proper nutri-
ton. While there are n number of
places in New Mexico and Arizona
that have good climates, in which
sanatoria have been located, 1t is all
but impossible to get proper diet and
supplies. and many of the failures OF
the s%antaoria in this work have been
due to this one cause. Albuquerque
being the largest city and distributing
point In the stnte, located in a rich
irrigated valley. with good railroad
facilities. makes the question OF
proper food supplies much easier
solved"
DIR. Shortle expects to have the new
building ready for occupancy 10y jan
uary first.