The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-15
THE TUBERCULOSIS
SENATORIAL
Report Of the State Board of
Directors to Governor
Baldwin

Hartford, Jan 15.-The Board OF Dt-
rectors to Establish County Homes for
stlfrerine ring from ,ubercuIosis presented
their report of the work done from
October /, 1910, to September 80 1912.
to the Governor to-day.
cut method of attacking her tubercu-
Iosis problem is different in many
some ways In advance of any other
state. 1t then takes up the work and
the improvements made at the four
sanitortums at Meriden, Shelton, Hart
ford and Norwich. According to the
report the tuberculosis Conna ssaon
has but a little more than $4,000 for
use the coming year and the GEN.
eral Assembly will have to be asked
for an appropriation early this year.
In one respect the report says the
States campaign against tuperculosls
not been enlisted in sufficient NUM-
bers. Except for the Visiting Nurses
Associations and few societies or wo-
men whose interest In tuberculosis
is only general, and the women who
contribute to the anti-tu berculosdS So
cieties of the state, the hundreds Of
done nothing but sympathdze from altar
with the states efforts at relieving
the tuberculosis sick Much OF the
work that only women can do Tor such
Institutions as ours has not been done.
The institutions have not been proper
~ nothered-''
The Q1fIfCuttISS encountered IN the
attempt to secure a, site for sanator-
iurf at the seaSl1ore for those suffer
ing from tuberculosis OF the glands and
bones is fully discussed. An Appro-
prfation was made for a sanatoriurn
in Mfdd1esex county and 1t was decid-
ed upon TO establish a Sanitoriurn by
suffering from tubercular glands and
bones as the four San1toriunaS now in
use could take care of the other pa
tten4s. All the sites that have been
haaF7 fought AGAINST
summer cottagers and thus far the
state has been unable to secure a site
because Of their . Opposition ao;ds On - this
dntoIerablo condition that the little
girls and boys Of the state, who
through no fault of theirs are af-
ing ailment, and for whom God has
provided in their own state almost
certain means of cure Or relief, to
which they could and should have ac-
cess dfty-two 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 sum-
mer cottAgers, who use the beach for
only eight weeks of the year, desire
to remain ignorant of other peoples
s1herinEs, or have sordid and lM1rea.-
sonabie fears of q, depreciat ton of their
The Commission will ask the Gen
aral Assembly to change the names of
the Sanatoriurns from County Homes
to 'State tuberculosis Senatorial as
the former name has conveyed the idea
that each county 10 entitled to such an
institution and that the appropriations
Of the Legislature meant that in eff
feet.
A sanatorium for the reception of
consumptives from jails, prisons and
possibly a1nlshOuses is spoken of as
being needed. Such an institution, the
report says, would also be place
where unruly inmates of the other San
atoria could be sent Some such in
stitution will be absolutely necessary
If we III Connecticut follow the ex-
ample of those American communities
that have given to their health au-.
thorities power to forcibIy conf1ne in
a tuberculosis hospital sanatorium
the refractory tubercuIous citizen
whose freedom is Judged dangerous to
the health of his neighbors."
At the Meriden Sanatorium there
were Ss4 males and 1872 females admit
ted from Oct. l, 1910 to Oct. 1, 1912.
The number discharged in that time
was 229 males and so females. The
total number OF deaths was 141 males
and IS fema1e les. The number of pa
tients remaining Oct. 1, 1919 was IA
males and "a females.
The work at the Shelton Sanatorium
shows that the number of patients re-
ceived for the year ending Sept 30
number passing out of the institution
in that period was 100 males and So
FEMALES. The number at the end of
the year was so males and 36 females.
The report of the Hartford Sanator-
fun for the year ending Sept. 30, 1872
shows 1877 males and 103 females re-
ceived and the number passing out 126