The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-01-25
Rural Members of Board
Strange Plans for Aid
For Consumptiyes.
CITY LIMITS PROVE DEAD LINE
Not One of the Representatives from
Outside City Willing 30 Make Small
Appropriation to Test Plan of Caring
for Consumptives Near to Death.

The plan to establish a temporary
hospital for the care of patients in the
last stages of consumption, the last
stand Of the Kenosha county people
interested in the fight against the dread
disease was ruthlessly strangled, by the
eight members of the county board
from the districts outside the city late
Friday afternoon and absolutely no
action will be taken by the board to
furnish some care for these people.
The final disposition of the matter
came when Supervisor John 7. Yule
presented a report asking that the
board appropriate the sum of $4,000 to
experiment with q temporary sani-
tarlum. The resolution provided that
the city council must appropriate a
like sum before the action of the board
would become effective. 1t was a
minority report of the committee of
the board who had met with the COM
mittee of the city council as Supervl-
sors Herzog of Somers and Kreuscher
of Paris declined to sign a report
recommending even this bare pittance
for the sanitarium. All support for
the minority report stopped at the
limits Of the city and while the seven
| city supervisors present all voted in
favor of the report the eight from the
country stood like a stone wall and
the proposed appropriation was lost.
There was a decided showing of fac
tional feeling. During the discussion
OF the question one Of the members
from the country had declared that
the city members had not been willing
to help the country members secure the
training school. The cause of humanity
suffered from this fractional feeling
There was little argument put up by
the opposition to the report more than
| the suggestion that the time was not
| ripe to opon a sanitarium. Others held
that it was up to the city to 60 single
handed into the project and build a
sanitarium. There is no doubt but that
! the city council would take Just such
a step were it not that it would be i'm
possible for the institution to secure
state aid without it bearing the name
of a county institution.
| Under the plan suggested 1929 of
the appropriation asked would have
come from the city. The vote on the
report Of the committee showed a lack
of any desire for progress among the
county board members just as the
former vote on the proposed plans for
training school had shown. However,
in this case the city members of the
board voted solidly in favor Of stand
ing with the other counties Of the
state in fighting the white plague.
| The action of the board came as a
distinct disappointment to the people
of the city interested in caring for
the dependents. These people know
that it is impossible to get consump-
tives into the various hospitals in this
section Of the state and there is alb
solutely no place to put them. 1t was
thought that the humanitarian question
would appeal strong enough to the
board members to force them to at
least grant some temporary relief from
existing conditions.
The city council had not acted on
the proposition which its committee
laid before the board, but more than
three fourths of the aldermen had ex-
pressed willingness to join with the
county in the opening Of the temporary
hospital. It is not probable that the
city will again seek aid from the
board in the matter, but possibly some
arrangement may be made to care for
the consumptives in an institution in
some surrounding county. The ex-
pense attending such a plan will
probably be greater than the cost if
an institution had been opened in this
county.