The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-26
SANATORIUM MATTER IS
THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED
Get Busy" is Slogan Of Anti
tuberculosis Society Express
sed at Meeting.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO A NAME

were very enthusiastic and the discus
sions relative to the matter OF build
ing a county tuberculosis sanitorium.
at times waxed pretty warm. The gen.
eral sentiment however, was to Get
Busy" as quickly as possible, and the
only difference of opinion was i'm re-
gard to ways and means and legal
points of the question at issue.
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose of considering the resolution that
certain portion of the receipts of the
society should be reserved for the es-
Enlistment of tuberculosis sanitar-
ium.
President l.. l.. Hubbard's opening
remarks favored the establishment Of
such an institution, and he reported
that visiting nurse had already been
engaged. He favored an institution
that would combine the features of a
sanitorium and a school where the
nurse would give instruction relative
to the care and treatment of tubercu-
losis. AS name for the proposed in
stitution DR.. Hubbard disliked the des-
ignation of dispensary as by that name
it might be considered a place for the
dispensing of medicine, the same as
the mine dispensaries.
DIR. w. II. Dodge of Hancock en-
dorsed the suggestion of DIR. Hubbard.
DR.. Il. II. Abrams also thought that
dispensary was not the proper term to
use and he further defined the duties
of the nurse. She should not be SIM
ply nurse, but should develop into
an organizer and leader. the plan of
work in large cities like Chicago not
being adaptable here. The nurse
should go out among the people and
visit homes where there are cases of
tuberculosis, see that proper treatment
is provided and look after the isolating
or sequestering of those affected. The
sanatorium would have to be q charit-
able institution. where the poor could
be treated without cost to them, and
be for the general benefit of the whole
people. DR.. Abrams thought that If the
society goes ahead with the project of
setting aside a portion of it's receipts
for the purpose intended, the board of
supervisors would do what was right
in the matter.
DIR. j. f. Scallon stated that he I'M
derstood the society had on hand only
about $1,000 The salary of the trained
nurse is to be 800 a month, so that it
win take $1,000 of the amount on hand
to meet the first years salary. Mrs. A.
II. Streeter said that the amount on
hand was about $1,000, including 800
received from the recent charity ball
given at the armory In Calumet. Mrs.
Estelle Thompson of Calumet, also
spoke on the matter, favoring the res
olution under discussion.
DIR. Dodge said that he understood
that the subject under consideration
was the resolution regarding the action
ciety adopts the resolution, he said,
and goes before the board of supervis-
ors with the assurance that money has
already been appropriated and more
will be collected favorable action of
the board will follow without doubt.
the motion that the name of the pro-
posed institution be sanatorium and
school of nursing.
The discussion then turned to the
ed that the law of 1910 authorized the
county to erect n hospital for the in
digent poor for the treatment of COM
municable disease. The county there
fore has the right to build such hospi-
tails and the law provides that the
questions should be submitted to the
voters at the spring elections. Dr.
Scallon suggested that the society and
the people should "get busy" circulate
petitions for signatures, and ask the
board to act on the matter.
Regarding phe detention hospital,
DR.. Scallon took the view that its es-
tablishment was not n humanitarian
move on the part OF the county but
as an economic measure. Before II
was built the physicians received $25
day from the county for each case
treated and the nurses were given a
correspondingly high compensation.
and were hard to obtain at that. The
county board gasped when the big bills
were presented and took steps towards
building the detention hospital as a
measure of economy.
DIR. Dodge's amendment was voted
on and carried after which the original
resolution. to consider which the meet
ing was called. was adopted.
DIR. Scallon then moved, providing II
were legal that a committee of three
be appointed to inaugurate campaign
for the erection and maintenance OF
the sanitarium for the treatment OF tu-
berculosis. and that the following
steps be taken: Petitions be prepared
and submitted TO the public for sig
natures. then presented to the county
board asking them to submit the ques-
ton to the people at the coming spring
elections: also that an attorney be
consulted for legal advice and proper
direction regarding the matter; ana
that the committee have power to ap-
point central committee which In
turn should appoint subcommittees In
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