The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-05-08
FAVOR CAMP IN The WOODS
Work of Proposed New Encampment
Would be Supplementary to the Work
Now Done at State Hospital at Wales
MANY Legislators Favor Movement

this legislature and which is believed
by persons who have made study of
the tuberculosis conditions in this
state to be one of the wisest measures
ever offered for the aid Of tubercular
patients is the measure for the use OF
the forest reserve as an outdoor camp
for convalescent consumptives. The
bill was introduced by Assemblyman
Holmes and is two-fold in it's object,
one being the aid of the tubercular
patients as regards their health, and
the second being to furnish to the
patients some means by which they can
partially make themselves self support
ing during the convalescent period.
The bill provides for the construction
of state encampment on the Wiscon-
sin reserve FOR convalescent tuberculo-
sis patients and that they shall be en-
ployed at forestry work on the reserve
and receive IS cents an hour for the
work. The cost Of living in the en-
campment is to he $3.50 week, and it
is believed that most patients will be
able, to work a sufficient number of
hours to at least earn their board.
When they really become strong the
expectation is that they will earn
enough so that they will be able to set
something aside during their con
valescence and have the nucleus of
fund with which to start life anew af-
ter their return from the forest reserve.
The strong support of the bill has
shown very clearly the belief of peo-
pie who are interested in the care Of
tubercular patients that the measure af-
fords strong supplementary measure
to the laws passed in years past which
have been the means of establishing
the Wales Sanatocium for tubercular
patients located at Wales, Wisconsin,
and the county sanatoria which have
been established during the past few
years. By the way, further aid for
these county sanatoria is one of the
plans of this legislature, and the bin
increasing the aid to county sanatoria
is one of the measures which seems
slated for passage by the legislature.
The Wales sanatorium is overcrowded
at all times and DR.. j. w. Coon, who
is at the head oftthat sanatorium is of
the belief that a great many con-
valescents who are now cared for at
the Wales sanatorium for the reason
that it is not thought they are quite
ready for a return to their home life
will be materially aided by the pas
sage OF the proposed forest reserve bill
When the bill was pending last week
before the assembly committee on pub
lie welfare it brought out in it's sup
port not only DR.. Coon, but a large
number of members of the Wisconsin
Anti Tuberculosis Association, all of
whom declared that they believed that
the measure would prove of great
benefit in the tight against the white
plague in Wisconsin. DR.. l.. A. Dear
holt, of Milwaukee, was particularly
strong in his support of the bill, as
were several physicians from North
ern Wisconsin.
So far the only opposition to the bin
that has been ait all material has come
from few members who are seeming
ly DESTROYS of abolishing the forest re-
serve altogether and see in the plan
proposed for the adoption of a tuber-
culosis camp there move which will
prevent any successful attacks on the
existing forest reserve of 100000 acres
IN Villas, Forest, Oneida and Iron
counties. This opposition will, prob
ably not, however, be very effective,
as so far as the existing forest reserve
is concerned the state has the land ON
its hands and there is no question but
that it will keep it.
So far as the forest reserve problem
is concerned it is Lsther one of limit
ing the present forest reserve and pre-
Venting Its extension than PROPOSE
( ton to do away with the forest re-
Z serve as it now exists. 1t would seem
4 to an outsider that so long as it can
be done with very little cost to the
state there was absolutely no reason
70 not maintaining tuberculosis camp
on the present forest reserve if such a
camp was to be benefit to anyone,
and from the testimony taken on this
point there is seemingly very little
question on that subject. In fact the
tuberculosis experts who We're in Madi-
son for the hearing seemed to thing no
more ideal spot could be found for the
care of tubercular patients than the
Wisconsin forest reserve.
BY the way, people who are interest
ed in the subject of the care of tuber-
cular patients say Wisconsin has taken
great strides along the line of aiding
IN the fight against the whise plague