The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-14

No action was taken by the Com
mercial club last evening on the
county tuberculosis hospital idea.
After interesting talks by DR.. Sever
ance Burrage and Walter d. Thuber,
the presiding officer asked the club If
there was any action to be taken on
the proposition. There was no response
and the meeting passed to the next or
der of business.
Burraee Expected Action.
81 am very much disappointed" said
DR.. Burrage, after he had left the
room. Il felt very sure that the Com
mercial Club would pass resolutions
tonight asking the county commission
ers to make an appropriation for the
hospital.
Future action on the hospital propo-
sition will probably be conducted
through the regular channels, the CLUB
waiting for the report of the health
I committee a majority Of whose mem
| bers are favorable to the hospital.
| In part, DR. Burrage said:
Il favor the erection of tuberculosis
| hospitals in counties or groups of coun-
| ties Persons afflicted with the disease
| are compelled to go to Texas, Colo
RADIO or California, and either remain
there the rest of their lives or else
run the risk Of succumbing to the Dis
ease if they return to their homes.
at is the same way with patients
| sent to the state hospital at Rockville,
Ind. These patients are removed from
| their friends, become homesick and
| so will not make the progress they
| would under more favorable condl-
lions.
Needed as Preventative.
| 1.-The hospital is needed from the
standpoint OF disease prevention. Each
case of tuberculosis probably Will
cause from five to ten other cases
Where there is smallpox in the home
the patient is at once isolated. Moth
ing of the kind is done in caring for
the victim of tuberculosis.
by taking the proper relief meas
ures we will be able to prevent hun
dreds of cases of tuberculosis in com
ing generations. At these hospitals the
patients are taught the proper safe
guards against the spreading of theil
affliction.
There are only two places in the
state where advanced cases of tuber
culosis may be treated-Evansvillt
, and Indianapolis. 1t is certainly need
full that such cases should be care(
for in such a way that they will cease
to menace the health of the remalnde
, of the community.
, Many Die Here Yearly.
From the monetary standpoint
alone, the hospital is needed badly il
this county Fifty to one hundred pee
pie die in Wayne county every yea
, of the disease. The parents Of sixt
per cent of the inmates of our orphan
asylums died of tuberculosis.
I'VE do not wait for fire to consum
our principal cities before we suppl
, them with fire fighting apparatus, w
do not wait for marine accidents be
, fore we build lighthouses on the dan
gerous coasts. believe we are as nea
a cure for the disease as we will eve
be. l do hope that we will some da
, get an absolute cure, but at the pres
, ent time prevention is the safest WeaI
, on to use in fighting it.
, From the educational viewpoin
, alone, the hospital will be worth all
: costs. The patients dismissed from
, will return to their homes with neN
ideas as to the proper living. In the il
stitution they will be taught the va
ne of fresh air, good food, exercise an
- the other precautions that will give
! high resistance to the disease.
, Requires No Medicine.
y 1.-THE idea is to raise the vitality {
, those who are suffering with the di
ease No medicine is required. In tn
\ past patent medicines have done NOR
=, harm than good. The disease can
- permanently arrested by proper trea
q ment.
with proper treatment the diseas
can be stamped out of the state in
years. l want Indiana to be the fir:
state in the Union that can give
~ clean bill of health when it comes
= making returns on the number of pc
: sons afflicted with this preventab
- disease"
. Following his talk DR.. Burrage r
:, piled to a number of questions tn;
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