Evening star., 1912-10-07
PATIENTS LAST YEAR, 461
Several Cured and Diseases Progress
Checked in Others.
NEW METHODS ARE FAILURES
superintendent of District Institu-
tion Requests That Several I'm
provements in Place Be Made.


were treated at the tuberculosis Hospital
of the District of Columbia during the
fiscal year that ended June 20 last. the
daily average number being 94.O2. as
compared with Sill of the year previous,
according to the annual report of DR..
W. D. Tewksbury. superintendent of the
institution.
This is the biggest increase in attend
ance since the hospital opened and is
due to efforts made to improve conditions
and make the institution more attractive,
according to the report, which has been
submitted to the board Of charities.
New Methods Fail.
Two new methods for treating tuber-
culosis Were tried out during the year,
but neither proved success. it is stated.
The preparation of tuberculin, discovered
by DR.. Wahlen of Paris. was tried in
connection with the treatment of twelve
patients after the preparation had been
tested by the public health and marine
hospital service Its results were so un-
satisfactory that the method was apan-
doned.
Five cases. the report sets forth. were
treated with turpozone. vapor formed
by combination of turpentine and ozone
The results obtained were Indifferent. four
of the cases remaining unchanged. while
one recorded slight improvement.
During the year, DIR. Tewksbury states,
there were admitted over twenty cases
in the incipient stage. OF the number
four left the institution cured, three un-
improved with the disease arrested, eight
in improved condition, While one died
and six remained in the institution at the
beginning of the present fiscal year
Those in Advanced Stages.
There were treated seventy-eight pa
tients in the moderately advanced stage
of the disease. OF this number, two ap-
parently were cured. it is stated, while
twenty-nine were improved and three
died, thirty-three remaining in the insti-
tuition July /, 1912. In the case of two
of these patients the disease was ar
rested. according to the report, While
nine patients remained unimproved.
Three hundred and fifty-one advanced
cases We're treated. Two hundred and
twenty of the number died. There were
seventeen cases that recorded improve
ment and siXty-four that remained un-
changed. The disease, in the cases oi
three patients, was arrested. the report
states. while forty-seven remained at the
end Of the year.
There were 1863 white and 149 colored
male patients treated, while ffty-eigh1
white and eighty-five colored female pa
tients also were cared for.
Surplus in Appropriation.
OF the appropriation of 4s.22O.2O al
lowed the institution, the amount OF
1922 333 remained at the close of the last
fiscal ear and has reverted to the Treas
ury of the United States, the report sets
forth.
Among the improvements requested are
two seventy-five-horsepow high-pressure
boilers to replace the present two low
pressure boilers, and a thirty-horsepower
igf-prcssure boiler, to cost about $500
disinfecting plant. to cost about $500
an incinerator for burning infected nap
kins, to cost about $50: a vacuum
cleaner, to cost about $50: increases ir
the wages of the four servants employed
at the institution. from $50 to $40 each
per annum. and a salary for a dietician
whose entire time shall be devoted tC
making soft diets for patients. The sal.
ary of this official, 1t is recommended
shall be not less than 5000 a year.
DIR. Tewksb,lry also recommends an ap.
preparation Of not less than $500 for
repairs and improvements to buildings
The amount allowed for this purpose last
year. which, it is declared, was insult
ficient, was $780,