Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-16
PATIENTS SPEAK
FOR SANATORIUM
Refute Reflections on Woodmen
Institution Tor Treatment
of tuberculosis.
STATEMENT IS PREPARED
Given Out After Il Is Read and Ap-
proved at a Mass Meeting
Tells Of the Work.

Conceiying that the best reply to
criticisms OF the Modern Woodmen
tuberculosis sanatorium near Colorado
Springs would be statement by the
patients themselves, a committee OF
II Of those taking treatment there was
appointed recently to draw up state
ment TO refute false assertions that
have been circulated concerning the
institution. On this committee was
Ralph G. Lindstrom OF this city who
spent several months as a patient and
who is now employed as secretary to
the superintendent
The statement was submitted TO a
mass meeting OF the patients July 81 |
and was duly approved by them. It
is as follows:
Woodmen, Col. July Blowing to |
adverse criticisms OF this Institution |
having been sent broadcast through /
out the country, We, as patients OF
the Modern Woodmen OF America |
sanatorium, in mass melting assem- |
bled on July 30. 1913. hereby appoint |
a committee TO draft a statement of |
the affairs Of the sanatorium as we, |
as patients. know them to be.
We, the undersigned committee, sub |
NIT the following:
The Modern Woodmen OF America,
our society, pioneering in a new field,
has built at Woodmen, Col, Just IL
miles from Colorado Springs, and
four miles north OF the famous Garden
Of the Gods, a sanatorium for free
treatment of its tubercular members.
It Is just FIVE years since the idea of
building this sanatorium had its con-
ception in the minds of some Of the
administrative force of the society,
and today 1t is one of the finest and
most modern of this country's sana-
toria.
>SThe sanatorium consists OF $50 tent
cottages, two utility buildings, large
main building, the power plant, tent
cottages for the single help and bunga-
lows for the medical staff and mar
ried help, and the large farm and san
atorium dairy. The institution is
lighted by electricity. obtained from
Colorado Springs, and is heated by
steam. It, has the best of water sup
ply and an excellent sewerage system.
The patients cottages are octagon in
shape, having the high tepee or conf
cal-shaped roof. They are known as
the Gardner tent cottage. There are
windows in three directions and
door in the fourth with ventilator in
the apex OF the roof. The patient
sleeps and lives with all the windows
and door open at all times except
kxr
There is an electric call bell system,
by which the patient can summon a
nurse at any time. The cottages are
far enough apart to allow each patient
plenty of privacy and afr space.
The sanatorium is divided into two
colonies, each colony consisting OF 80
tents and having its own utility build
ing. In the utility buildings are locat-
ed the doctors Offices and laboratories,
toilets. baths. nurses quarters, etc.
THE MAIN BUILDING.
In the main building-a structure OF
two stories and basement recently
completed and Of reinforced concrete
with an outer wall surface Of the beau
tiful cap rock taken from the
mountains-are located the dining
rooms. postofiice, cold storage and ice
plants. bakery, kitchen, store rooms
administrative offices and dormitories
for the female help. There are two
large dining halls for the patients,
each having a capacity of 120 persons,
and that leaving plenty of air space;
also two smaller dining halls for the
help and one for the visitors. The
kitchen has the most modern of equip
ment, and is a model Of cleanliness.
An idea Of the sterile manner in
which food and kitchen utensils are
handled can be had from the following
description of the manner of washing
dishes. The dishes are first placed in
n vat, electrically turned at a rate OF
$50 revolutions a minute, hot water be-
ing forced on them from all sides of
the vat When the dishes have been
thoroughly cleansed they are placed
in another vat and rinsed in boiling
water and the steam which is forced
through the water. After being dried
by the hot air process. they are kept
in ovens heated TO q temperature of
100 degrees, which insures absolute
sterilization, for there is no chance OF
life al such temperature. The only
hre required in the kitchen is that in
the ranges for frying meats, for coffee,
soups oroths, etc, are prepared In
urns and watts surrounded by steam
jackets. The waste OF food would ap-