The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-31
LARGER WORK
FOR PINE CAMP
Annual Meeting of tuberculosis
Camp Society Is
Held.
MAY COOPERATE WITH CITY
Plans Discussed for Removing
All Consmnptives From
City Home.

The annual meeting Of the Tubcrcu-
losis Camp Society was held at the
/ Central Y NJ {. A Building. last
night Mcssrs. II. II. HARDWOOD, c. c.
Hardwickc. and !. j. Marcuse were
,re-cIectcd members Of the board of
directors for three year terms. and
Messrs. John Hirschberg ana James }
Dreamer elected TO I'll uncXpired terms
formal and resulted in a general dis
cussion of the relief of INDECENT con-
sumptivcs all matters of detail manage
ment being loft 20 the board of direct
ors for disposition
Among the points raised by Prcsi-
dent Edmund Strudwick for future
consideration were the dcsirability of
establishing similar or companion
camp for treatment Of colored consump-
tives, the adVisabilitY of admitting
pay as well as free patients. and nego-
tIations with the city for taking over
al a fixed per diem the care of tubcrcu-
lar patients now insuffcicntly cared for
at the City Home. Among those TAX
ing part in the general discussion were
Chief Health Officer +. c. Levy. State
Health Com missioner Ennion @. vii
hams. DR. {. r. Robins. of the City
home medical staff; Miss Minor. of
the nurses settlement. and others.
Ninety-Eight Cents Per Day.
The report of Treasurer r. W. Scott
showed that the cost per day per pa
tient during 1912 was 9s cents which
DR. Williams stated was much less
than the cost at the State Sanitorium
at Catawba and less than half the
cost OF maintaining patients in gen
eral hospitals for the treatment of
acute diseases
The camp received from the city
last year a contribution OF $500. and
raised from other sources for the pur-
poses of maintenance slightly more
than $4,000. A new pavilion was com
pleted during the year. increasing the
daily capacity to thirty patients.
Originally the camp was intended only
for treatment of advanced cases, the
intention being TO remove such sources
of cOntagiOn from unhealthy surround
ings. where they would be the means
of spreading disease. Since the new
pavilion has been in use some incip-
lent cases have also been treated.
with the result that fourteen patients
have been enabled 70 return to self
supporting work. and are not only
greatly improved in health. but have
now a clearer idea of taking care Of
themselves and of protecting those
about them.
Need Sanitary Camp for Negroes.
Care for colored consumptives was
admitted to be the most pressing prob
lem as each case left in the city is rhe
means of spreading disease The camp
Is located on city property about two
miles northeast of Ginter Park. and
since its Inauguration three years ago
there has been spent on buildings and
grounds approximately SIS 600 which. il
was held. would prove a valuable nucleus
should the time come when the city
could take over the work in connection
with d general plan for maintenance of
q city hospital for all classes of diseases
In Baltimore. II was stated, the city
instead Of maintaining its own hospital.
pays TO the various public hospitals. of
which there are number, an allowance
of 81 per day for each city patient
treated, and pending the consumma-
ton of plans for d general city hospital
here. II was the belief of several of the
speakers that some such arrangement
might be entered into with the city
Pine Camp could DC enlarged
TO take care of all tubercular cases now I
scattered all over the city. or insult .
hcientiy cared for at the City Home 4
The matter of definite negotiations was T
left to the board of directors.