Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-16
FIRE BOX I37 FOR saNATORIuM
Fire Commissioners Direct Its InstaatonWn Be Paid For By State and be Only For Calls From County Sanatorium t-Fiydrants at the Tuberculosis Institution Have 25 Pounds Pressure
timated when appropriations wer asked of the general assembly.

;, timated when appropriations were ! asked of. the general assembly
 This State in the Lead. The report says that Connecticut's l method of attacking her tuberculosis l problem is different in many ways from that of other States and in some | ways in advance of any other state. It then takes up the work and the inn provA1nents made at the four sanato- riun1s at Meriden, Shelton, Hartford and Norwich. According to the re- port, the tuberculosis commission has ! but little more than $50,0o0 for use the coming year and the general as- sembly will have to be asked for an appropriation early in the year. Beach Owners Scored.
 The difficulties encountered in the attempt to secure a site for a sana toriurn at the seashore for those suf- fering from tuberculosis of the glands and bones is fully discussed. All the sites that have been selected have been fought against by summer cot tagers, and thus far the state has been unable to secure a site because of their opposition. On this the report says: We consider it an intolerable condi- ton that the little girls and boys of the. state who through no fault of theirs are afflicted with a wasting and .ncapacitating ailrnent, and for whom God has provided in their own state an almost certain means of cure or re- lief. to which they could and should have access 52 weeks in the year, are to be deprived entirely of that means of cure and to be left at home in pain and despair, merely because some summer cottagers who use the beach for only eight weeks of the year desire to remain ignorant of other peoples sufferings, or have sordid and unrea- soma ble fears of a depreciation of their property"
 The commission will ask the gen eral assembly to change the names of the sanatoriuIns from County Homes" to State Tuberculosis Sanatoria," as the former name has conveyed the idea that each county is entitled to such an institution and that the ap- propriatio11s of the legislature meant that in effect
 Patients in Sanatoria.
 At the Merfden sanatorium there were S94 males and 152 females ad- mitted from October l, 1910. to Octo- Der 1. 1912. The number discharged in that time was 229 males and 20 females. The total number of deaths was Al males and 56 females. The number of patients remaining October 1, 1912, was "A males and 3z females.
 The work at Shelton shows that the number of patients received for the year ending September 30, 1912, was 127 males and T5 females: the number passing out of the institution in that period was 100 males and 53 females. The number at the end of the year was 60 males and 35 females.
 The report of the Hartford fnstitu- tion for the year ending September 30, 1912, shows 197 males and 103 females received and the number passing out 12e males and 73 females. At the end of the year there were 75 males and 33 females in the institution
 Secretary's Report.
 The report of the secretary, George I. Allen, shows that S77,7S3.43 was ex- pended for the maintenance of the Meriden institution, s67,2s7.72 for the Hartford institution, and $53 95s. 56 for to 8 total of S1s9, e46.T1. The total amount spent by the board for construction, etc., was $152, ,se0.85, and the total amount expended $351,- 301. .56.