The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-11-17

cost, and maintain that no expense
should be spared wherever it is found
we can save the life of an infant
or alleviate the suffering of the poor
and afflicted.
1t is the intention of the Health De-
partment to employ a director, whose
duty it shall be to do educational
work and look after tuberculosis
patients in the city, before they are
sent to the tuberculosis Hospital,
and also guide them in the matter of
looking after their health after they
return from this institution If we
ale to make a successful fight in the
city of Nashville against the great
white plague We must adopt the most
up-to-date methods known to the med.
| ical profession and bear the expense
as is necessary to carry on the work
as outlined by the doctors in charge
of the Health Department and the
tuberculosis Hospital
City Hospital.
/ For several years numerous chart
tably inclined citizens advocated a
Children's Hospital or a place where
children could be kept separate and
apart from the general patients adj
mitted to regular City Hospital,
but no substantial progress looking to
the contamination of their ideas was
ever put into effect until I recon-
mended to the honorable City Coun-
Gil in my last annual message that
an appropriation of $4,000 be made
for the purpose of erecting an addi-
| ton to the City Hospital I am proud
Ito announce that the appropriation
was. made and the contract and the
addition is now under construction,
and when completed Nashville will
be as well equipped for taking care
of its INDECENT poor and treating the
sick and afflicted as any city any
where. The whites can be separated
from the colored patients, and the
children can have ward where they
will not at any time or in any way
come in contact with undesirable
characters. I commend the great
work accomplished by the honorable
Hospital Commission, and pledge my
support and cooperation in all meri-
torious measures they advocate, or
reforms they institute in the future.
Parks.
No department of the city govern
ment deserves more credit than the
Park Commission, and during the
year 1911 several additional play
grounds in various sections of the
city have been acquired and equipped
with swings. benches and other de-
vices for the amusement and pleasure
of the children. No department of
the city government has a more di-
rect bearing on the health and well
fare of the young people than the
park system, and every opportunity
to aid the Park Commission should
! he embraced by all officials and the
citizens generally Shelby Park is
being beautifed as rapidly as a wise
! Park Commission with limited re-
| sources can devise and execute the
necessary work The colored people
| of the city Of Nashville have been
/ modest in their demands, and the
/ leaders of their race are intensely
interested in inducing the honorable
| Park Commission to provide play
grounds for the colored children in
certain sections of the city, and I
| heartily indorse this movement and
recommend to the honorable Park
Commission that Fairgrounds for col
ored children be provided in such
sections of the city where they will
be of the most benefit to the greatest
number of our eolored citizens.
tuberculosis Hospital.
I am gratified to announce to the
honorable City Council that the site
for the tuberculosis Hospital has
been purchased and paid for The
money has been appropriated by the
honorable County Court and the
necessary. legislation enacted by the
last Legislature, a commission ap-
pointed and organized, contracts Let
and the tuberculosis Hospital will
be completed and opened to the pub
lie in January 1912. This will meet
a long-felt want. and bring. hope to a
multitude of people who have hereto
fore been without hope when afflicted
with the dread white plague
Workhouse.
have heretofore recommended
that the Workhouse be remodeled and
enlarged, so that the unfortunate
prisoners confined therein could be
kept more comfortable and less
crowded, and I desire, to renew my
recommendation along this, line. l
am satisfied that prisoners confined
in the old Workhouse are kept as
clean and treated as humanely as pos