Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-01-04

Now DR.. Lloyd wrote to several other
ex-patients the same day he wrote me
telling them be bad vacancies and they
could come back, besides there has sew
eral already gone back. Now his letter
proves that the sanatorium is not full
and also that patients are leaving OF
their own accord before their SIX months
is up, Tor they surely would not put a
patient out OF the sanatorium who had
only been there six months, and fill
their places with old patients who had
been there for two years. and shows
they have done away with the six
months ruling, and also shows that
there are no applications on file.
Now as to the two new pavillions cost
ing Sll 900 when fully equipped; they
only needed $1,000 at first for the build
Ings. The State was to furnish them
Now they want 81. 600 more to furnish
these two pavillions
l was at Catawba two years and |
think know every article in the pa
vllllons, and have figured every way
know how and | can't get but $500 90 of
furniture and equipment in any way
figure.
Well you see they are working on one
pavilion now, and when finished, thew
will have no one to go in it. and they
now have the $1,000, enough to build
both, but in order to delay the work as
long as possible, as they DO not want
two or three empty pavillions there
wnen the Legislature meets, they have
raised the amount to 81, 900, which will
take some time longer to raise. and
they will wait longer to raise this
amount before building the other one,
and the one they are at work on now
Will be delayed as long as possible.
.Iney VIII arrange it SO the two pa
vlllons will be opened for patients
about April 1912.
Now you read in the papers every dav
of the great fight being made against
this terrible disease by the State Health
Department; the Virginia Anti-Tuber-
culosls Association; the Catawba Re
lief Association, and the Catawba San
atorlum, and the great amount of liter
allure being sent out instructing people
how to do to keep from spreading the
disease, and the markets watched bv
the Health Department; any cattle or
hogs found which have been subject to
injection Is destroyed, and the owner
lined, yet the officials at the Catawba
Sanatorium raise from rs to 100 hogs
every year which are fed on refuse
from the tables of the tuberculosis pa
tients, and sell these hogs on the Roam
oke and Salem markets, They sent one
lot of 20 or 25 to the city market Thurs
day, the 7th.
Now see what DR.. Foster says about
hogs of this kind:
CITY OF ROANOKE VIRGINIA
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Roanoke, Va, Dec. 6, 1911.
Mr.. J. NJ. Elliott,
Roanoke, Va.
Dear Sir;-I am in receipt of your ia
vor of the 9TH inst, with a number of
questions to which reply as follows,
Hogs are subject to tuberculosis;
Persons may contract tuberculosis by
eating uncooken meat from tuberculosis
hogs, but not from such meat, if it has
been thoroughly cooked. 1t is not
proper to feed hogs on matter contami-
mated by tuberculosis patients, and it is
illegal to sell tuberculosis meat in the
market or elsewhere.
If you can inform me of any instances
IN which hogs are fed on materials in
tected with tuberculosis, or in which
infected meat is being sold, will great
ly appreciate the information and do
my best to secure a discontinuance of
the practice.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) w. B. FOSTER,
Health Officer.