The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-13
Racine to Act Independently
in Building Sanitarium for
tuberculosis Patients
MAY FORCE KENOsHA TO ACT
State of1cials of the Committee in
Fight Against White Plague tc
Make Investigations in This City il
the Near Future.

Tt is probable that the city and
county of Kenosha will have to act in,
dependently in the matter of establish.
ing a hospital for the care of patients
in the advanced stages of tuberculosis
as the city of Racine is now planning
for the erection of an institution of
its own and the plan for the establish.
ing Of a joint hospital for the two
counties viii probably be abandoned.
The matter has been laid before the
Racine city council and it is expected
to act in few days or plan for the
purchase of several acres of land neal
the Taylor Orphan Asylum ON which
several cottages will be erected. Tht
plan was suggested to the Racine coun
Gil by Miss Tate, the state organizer
of the Wisconsin Anti tuberculosis
committee. She has been at work in
Racine for two weeks and has found
more than 300 cases of the disease in
that city. Miss Tate will come to Ke.
nosha within the next few weeks IL
make similar canvass of Kenosha. II
is certain that almost as large a num-
Der of tuberculosis patients will be
found in this city. The disease is very
prevalent among foreigners and the
fact that Kenosba has such large
foreign population leads interested peo-
pie to believe that the number of
cases here will be found to be unusual.
" large. The plan proposed to the
Racine council is I'll purchase land and
erect a single cottage for the treatment
of tubercular patients with the under
standing that other cottages can be
erected as they may be demanded
The cost of such cottages would be
but few hundred dollars and the cost
of maintaining them would be very
small The plan is similar to that
adopted by the fraternal organizations
who have opened sanitorias in various
parts of the country.
The entire plan of the Kenosha
county physicians win be in need of
Encouragement as result of the new
movement in Racine as all plans made
in the past year and half have been
made with the understanding that the
institution would be one for the two
counties. WalWorth county is still
willing to unite with Kenosha county
in the building of the institution, but
Walworth is long way from Kenosha
and the physicians of Kenosha inter
ested in the matter seem to think that
such an arrangement would not meet
with great deal of favor
It is possible that the Kenosha men
interested in the fight against the
white plague viii follow the lead of
Racine and lay the matter before the
common council with a view of having
city institution built There is plenty
of room at the Kenosha Poor Farm to
secure a site for several cottages and
1T is possible that a part of the care
of the patients could be placed on the
shoulders of the inmates of the poor
farm. Sufferers from tuberculosis have
been cared for at the poor farm in the
past, but such plan has met with con-
siderable opposition from the people in
charge of the farm.
AS the matter viii not come up form
ally until the meeting of the county
board in November the local leaders in
the fight viii have plenty Of time to
consider conditions and work out new,
plans for the proposed institution.