Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-06-23
MAINE SANATORIUM.
Annual Report of Executive Com
mittee by the Chairman, Gen. Connor.


At the meeting of the trustees of tht
Maine State Sanitorium Association,
Gen. Selden Connor of Augusta read
the following report for the executive
committee of which he was chairman
To the Maine State Sanatorium ASso-
citation:
The close of the year finds our in
stitution enjoying so high a degree Of
prosperity and promise that it may Dc
Well to look back to our days of small
beginnings and the years of continual
striving we have passed through,
sometimes nearly despairing of com
pleting the sanatorium and placing it
on an assured basis.
The Maine Board of Health was
among the first associations to recog-
niZe and appreciate the value of DR..
kochs discovery of the tubercle bacil-
lus and to disseminate information
leading to the lessening of cOnsump-
ton. 1t began its campaign in 1889
and in ten years its work had mate
rally lowered the deathrate from tu-
berculoss Believing that active and
comprehensive agencies should be eS-
tablished for overcoming this great
ScOurge of the people, the Board invited
a number of citizens of the State to
meet with it at Augusta to consider
measures for combating the evil. The
meeting was held on the 26th of De-
ceniher 1900 and formed an ASsOcia
ton which was duly legaliZed by a GER
tificate under the general statutes of
the State dated February 8. 1901, as
follows:
"rhe undersigned officers of copor
alton duly organized at the state
House in the city of Augusta, State of
Maine, on the twenty sixth day of De-
cember A. l.. 1900 hereby certify as fol-
lows: The name of said corporation is
the Maine State Sanatorium ASSocia
tion. The purposes of said corporation
are to establish and maintain a public
ins titution for the isolation treatment
and cure of persons affected with pull
mOnary disease and to exert its influ-
ence toward the lessening of the pre-
valance of tuberculosis"
Upon further consideration It was
deemed advisable to secure special
act OF the Legislature and such act was
procured to be passed. 1t was APPROX
ed March 19, 1901, and is as follows;
Section l. The Maine State Sana-
torillnt Association with its headquar
tels in the city of Augusta, Name,
CORPORATION organized under the laws
of this State and located in the CITY OF
Augusta, in the county OF kenhebec'
which organization is hereby ratined,
confirmed and declared to be legal ana
valid is authorized and empowered
for the purposes of its organization, 10
take and hold by deed devise, bequest
or otherwise, property, personal ana
real. in any amount without limit.
"Section .. This act shall take effect
when approved.
The removal Of the limitation on the
amount of property the Association
NAV hold IS feature of the act on
which we nlay well congratulate our
selves in these days of good fortune
and of promise.
At a meeting of the trustees held De
oember 10 1901, DR. Weeks. Mr.. White
horse and Mr.. Pettengill We're appoint
cd TO select a site for the sanatoiluhi'
an tho otn of December 1902. the COM
mittee reported in favor OF I1epi 'i'
rrhair ranort was accepted and the pur-
chase of the farms recommends" "''
authorized. Your trustees nave iieNr
had reason to regret the c''oioe
was made.
In August 1903. on the report or
committee appointed to tina sulta'''
man TO be medical director, l)r' Es'e9
Nichols was elected to that p"si',on
Tho choice has proved to be no le'9
bonnv one than that of the site oi ."e
tor;um While funds were being
SLOWLY accumulated for a bm'dlhs' ~
Nichols visited and studied many lnH'i-
tutions for the treatment OF suilee''
from tuberculosis.
In December 1903 the building OF
structure to furnish administration ia
ai,;t;os and accommodations for tWeh-
-, o,t;ants was undertaken. 1t was
ao,,n,ated and ready for occupancy IN
Dooamher 1904. At a meeting In Au-
rn.+ 1aor, plans for an administration
building and power house were ac-
oan,oa and the building committee was
d;ranted to erect them. The spiehdlo
eranaros;tv of Mr. f. D. Chamberlin
7r.viaed us in THE Leigh Chamoerin
Memorial Building with an au'ni'ia-
tration building nearly perfect IN ITS
arrangement and appointments M
Cham5erlin approved the piah anu
wished the building to be OF the oes.
looking only to it's stability and useful
noss While there is nothing ABOUT II
snnerauous or out of keeping with its
nurnoses and it is exactly suited to the
n..ads of the sanatorium, it is hardly
,,ronahle that so costly an undertak-
~ ,,.ould have been ventured upon by
the trustees.
II the summer of 1906, the admins