Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-09
Report OF. the Vermont Sanatorium for
Two Years.

Two I ears.
At the annual meeting of the YER
mont Sanatorium held at Pittsford
January 27, 1910 report was SUBJ
mitted to the Board of trustees show
ing the work of the Sanatorium for
two years ending Dec. 81, 1909. Dur
ing this time 191 patients were admit
ted, classified as follows: 81 were in
cipient or first stage 88 were moder-
ately advanced or second stage and
20 were far advanced or third stage
cases. One case of general military tu-
berculosis developed meningitis and
died at the Sanatorium. This was
the only death that occurred. Two
cases were diagnosed as non tubercu-
lous. During this same time 155 pa
tients were discharged; 80 or 2O.65
per cent were apparently cured, 73 or
All per cent arrested, 90 or 1877 per
cent improved, and 81 or 1856 per
cent unimproved or progressive. Two
| cases classified as non tuberculous
and two patients who stayed less than
one week not considered.
Taking the patients according to
their classification it was shown that
of the 70 incipient eases discharged.
63 or 80 per cent were cured, or ar
rested; of the 81 moderately advanced.
SO or only 53.7 per cent were cured or
arrested; while of the Is far advanced.
only six or 33 per cent were cured or
arrested.
In order to show the Importance of
longer course of treatment, cases
discharged during the last year were
divided into two classes; those that
stayed less and those that stayed
more than three months, respective
ly. Of the "a who stayed less than
three months (average stay Alt days.
I'six or 17.6 per cent were cured, while
of the AZ patients who stayed more
than three months average stay lat.
6 days 16r or 32.5 per cent were cured.
Moreover, the average gain of those
who stayed more than three months
was 1907 pounds as against 7.26
| pounds for those who stayed less than
three months. This table included in
cipient, moderately advanced and far
advanced cases.
In order to show that the benefits
| of Sanatorium treatment were not
merely temporary, as full informa-
| ton as possible was obtained regard
ing 76 patients who had all been dis
| charged more than year. Direct
replies or positive statements were re-
| ceived regarding Sd and of these Sd
known cases, 27 or so per cent were liv-
ing and earning a livelihood. Here
| again, the incipient cases show up
very much more favorably, 92.3 per
cent being alive while 1878 per cent
of the advanced cases were dead.
/ While the Sanatorium is intended
principally for early cases that offer
| good prospect of cure or arrest of the
| disease, moderately advanced cases
have been taken from time time as va
cancies exist the principal object being
| to teach them how to follow the treat
ment themselves and continue it at
| home and to give them such hygienic
| training as would minimize the dan
gers of infection when they left the
| institution.
The figures given in this report
| show, however, how much greater the
| changes for cure are in the incipient
cases and how important it is that
treatment should be begun at as early
a time as possible and they show,
moreover, that in order to obtain a
cure, the treatment must be carried
| out for a sufficient length of time.
| The mistake is only too frequently
made that patients feeling them
selves much improved and benefited,
| leave the institution too soon and
before a permanent cure has been es.
| tablished, with the danger of recur-
renee or relapse when they return to
| their former occupation or surround
| ings.