New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
INVALIDS WORRY STATE
Consumptives 0vercrowd Col.
orado Health Resort Region.

Colorado has its own troubles in caring
for tubercular patients. The health resort
region Is becoming overcrowded with con-
sumptives who have come from the East
without money for their support, trusting
10 luck and the climate that they will man
age TO exist somehow.
The Governor of Texas has called con-
| ference at Waco for the purpose of con-
siderng ways and means OF aiding poor
ccnsumptives OF other states who have
come TO Arizona. California, Colorado. Kan
/ sas, Nevada New Mexico, Oklahoma and
, Utah"
| On MAY Il the Colorado Conference OF
! Charities will meet In Denver. Special at
tention will be paid to this problem and
reports from the Waco conference will be
read.
/ Already the State Board OF Charities,
feeling the burden imposed upon Colorado
by other states, has published a circular
and distributed IL among doctors. ministers
and aid societies through the Uni cd States.
q The circular reads, IN part as follows:
/ While physicians are a unit In asserting
that sunshine. pure. dry air and existence
in the open are valuable adjuncts In the
treatment II tuberculosis, they are also OF
the opinion that 100 rpucn emphasis mas
been placed on this one remedial agent. and
d unless obher essentials for the proper care
J OF the case have been previously provided
food. shelter and wholesome environments
among friends and relatives, freedom from
anxiety for the necessares or life-pure
air Is OF no value whatever.
: The problem or caring for the INDECENT
I tubercular the patient without means OF
SUPP ort, whether IN the incipient or I'd
vanced stage Of the disease, has reached
/ such tremendous proportions in Colorado
/ that tho State Board OF Charities and Cor
IeCtions has determined 10 carry on cam
paign OF education ana enlist the corpora
ton q physicians and all charitable organ
. izauons fraternal and aid societies 10
place before the public the facts and 10
bring about proper solution OF this very
vital subject.
In justice TO the patient, the erroneous
impression that seems 10 exist In the East
that In Denver and Colorado there are nu-
merouS public sanatoria where patients re-
ceive treatment should be corrected. Such
public institutions as such. DO not exist.
proper understanding OF the conditions
actor many from leav ne comfortable homes
10 be subjected 10 the deprivations await
ing them on coming 10 Colorado without
the means necessary 70 provide the com
forts and necsssaries OF life. An inclpent
case rapidly becomes hopelessly !ncurable.
and in the mere advanced cases death soon
ends their miserable existence.
Another fallscv which cre'tes false hopes
that employment may be secured which Will
enable the patient 10 pay his expenses.
Tho fact Of the matter Is that the oppor-
tunity for securing employment Is exceed
ingly meaEre. because employment OF this
nature Is IN great demand Is overcrowded
and underpaid. Justice demands that every
Individual. society or community that sends
away the poor consumptivc should provide
him the means wherewith to live. and guar
antee that he does not become a public
charge, a burden or danger 10 the com
munity.
As Colorado is the paradise for consump-
tives who have sufficient means to give
them rho prorer care. Colorado Is also the
rurgatory OF tho homeless. penniless. work
less consumptive. and every state In the
r--lo- shouid estoNitsh sarNtoria Wherein
this otherwise hopeless class can be prom
erly treated and cared for in their home
states.
however. 10 work more than eight hours
on Saturdays or legal holidays.
The hours OF employment are to be reck-
oned from the time OF entering the estab-
lishment until the moment OF exit. There
must be at least one recess during the day.
OF not less than thirty minutes. for children
whose labor is limited 10 three hours daily
and OF not less than two hours for young
persons and women. except on Saturdays
when one hour will be given.