The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-05-24
TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.
Loca, Society Secures an Option Upon
the T1mmons Tract.

Local Society Secures an Option Upon
the T1mmons Tract.
The, MOrriStOwn tuberculosis
society has secured an option upon
tract of land, known as the Timmons
tract, on the Jockey Hollow road for
the purpose of erecting hospital &C
commodations for Morristown cases of
tuberculosis. AS the hospital is for the
accommodation of Morristown cases
exclusively, it will be planned to ac-
comodate twenty or twenty-five pa
tients.
Some provision for the treatment
and care Of tuberculosis patients is
stern necessity in our community as
mere matter of self protection. The
hospital committee Of the society has
been at work for months Investigate
ing the question of location, and every
available lot and building in the town
ship has been inspected and discussed.
In the Judgment of the committee,
the Timmons tract meets the neceS-
sary requirements more perfectly than
any other available site. 1t is stu
ated on high ground, running eleven
hundred feet up the hillside, it has
southern exposure and the protection
of hill and woods against the winter
WINDS, necessary for the out of door
treatment, it has an independent
water supply and it is as secluded and
remote as any available lot within rea-
sonable distance for local needs and
local administration. Under the pres
emit law. the permission to erect a
building for the treatment of tuber-
culosis rests with the state board of
health. That board will hold hear
ing on the proposal in the court house
on Saturday, May 21st, to consider oh
jections from all or any whose inter-
estS may be directly or indirectly af-
fected by the operation of tubercu-
losis hospital on that site. Inevitably
such objections will arise both from
sentimental and real estate grounds.
The general public knows just enough
about tuberculosis at present to be
afflicted with unreasonable fear of the
disease, Tin fact this sentiment has
come to be known as phthisisphobia, y
and is not educated enough on the
subject to understand that we'll ad-
ministered tuberculosis sanatorium IS
not only safer, so far as the possibility
OF contracting the disease is concerned
than the streets they walk on daily
but is also protection and direco
and indirect influence in favor OF pub
lie health. In view of this prevalent
fear unreasonable as it is. property
owners naturally object to any project
OF erecting tuberculosis hospital on
ground adjacent to their own. E'rom
the property owners point of view the
only allowable situation is a piece OF
property bounded on all sides by
ground which belongs to no man. 1t
is, however, only question of a few
years before the present educational
campaign that Is sweeping the cOun-
try on the subject of tuberculosis will
bring about as one of its effects rea-
sonable attitude on the part of the
general public towards the sufferers
from tuberculosis, and a tuberculosis
sanatorium will be regarded from a
sentimental or a real estate point of
view with as entireA complacenc as
Memorial hospital or All Souls.
Beginning on Saturday, May 2lst,
there will be held for one week in
Morristown the exhibit Of the New
Jersey Association for the Prevention
of tuberculosis. The exhibit will be
held in the Miller building and will be
in charge of George @. Butler, as dem.
onstrator. The exhibit will be open
evenings as well as day times, and Mr..
Butler will be in constant attendance
to explain the exhibit and to give any
information in regard to any ques-
tions on the subject. In addition
there will be plain talks on the sub
ject by our local physicians in the ex-
hibit rooms this week. The exhibit
is free to all, and visitors will not only
fs walp0ma hnf their nI1acfinnc &c