The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-30

u @IV,UUV amount 10 Wneu we rear
ize that nearly two hundred people
are dying right here in this county,
the garden spot of Minnesota. from
this dread disease every year.
Mayor HI. j. Wirig of Madison
Lake sent letter to the committee
that he could not come to Mankato
to address the meeting as had been
planned on account OF the muddy
roads, but in this letter he stated
that he wished to go on record, as
being heartily in favor of erecting
a county Tuberculosis sanatorium. C.
w. Warren of Vernon Center also
sent his regrets at rot being able
to speak at the meeting but sent a
representative. Dr. Thomas G. Glenn
ent. Or. Clemcnt rcaa . letter FROM
Mr.. Warren in which Mr.. Warren
stated tlst he was heartily in sym
paJhy with the movement which was
on foot to get the county tubercu
losis sanstoriun built. and DIR. elem.
ent heartily echoed these senti-
ments
Rev. A. F. Winter pastor of the
German Lutheran church, compli
mented the. committee upon the ex
cellent work which there men have
done in putting the matter before
the penple. Among their investi
cations" said Rev Winter, "tht
committee so far has learned thai
there are now enc hundred seventy
seven cases of tuberculosis in this
county. The reports are not com
plete yet The state sanatotium a
Walker is o~ercrcv ded. and canne
take care of these patients even J
they all could go there. In 1912
twelve people in the county apple
for admission there, and only fou
could he accented This shows
somewhat, the necessity of a count,
sanatorium in this county. an
heartily in favor of the movement il
this direction, and | feel that thu
results from the institution of
hospital of this kind will more thai
repay the cost of the disease in it
present state"
A. l. Cummings of Eagle Lake
Mayor G. w Neff of Lake Crystal
Charles T. TAYLOR of Mankato, Ed
tor F. H. Griffin and F, H. More
lock of Good Thunder, Nicholas il
liar of ST. Clair and F. e. Day c
Eagle Lake were unable to be pres
. ent to speak at the meeting.
Explained the Law.
Before the resolution was offere
. by DIR. A. F. Schmitt, DR.. Marckle
explained little more fully the la
regarding the county tuberculosis
sanatorium, ".One-half of the cos
of building the sanatorium is pal
! by the state" said DR.. Marckle!
land one-half by the county. Th
charges at the Walker sanatoriuI
:. are 81 per day, and the cost {
treating patients at this and at tn
county institution would be abor
: $40 per week. and in case patier
:, cannot afford to pay anything f6
;. treatment, the state will pay IS pc
4 week to the county sanatorium. Th
3 charges for patients at the count
sanatorium may be fixed by tn
e county The State Anti-tuberculos
$ association has worked hard
make this bill law, and the men
9 bers have spent a good deal of tim
e in telling the state. legislators VIII;
e they could do, :. They now have tt
k chance to do something, and t
e means of this new law, they ha,
t been given a chance to make good
e Endorsed BY Organization.
Il Dr. A. F. Schmitt, in closing tt
5 meeting, said that he had receive
n a number of resolutions from di
l. ferent organizations in the count
IS such as schools, churches, clubs, ct
If and had made up a resolution, COZ
h piled from these others, which
presented to the audience to
passed upon 1t followed in pal
t. the resolution presented to the col
d mittee by the normal school, as tn
one seemed to have combined mo
e of the important arguments in fav
d of the county sanatorium. Aft
A. reading the resolution, standii
n vote was taken upon it, and it WI
G. adopted unanimously, and on a
s. other motion, it was decided to sci
% copies of it to each of the coun
n. commissioners This completed Il
id work of the committee in putin
,e the matter of building a county
IN berculosis sanatorium before the pc
,e pie of the county, and their effor
in were crowned with success.
,e DR.. Schmitt's resolution was bas
lie upon a number which were, sent
ar him from various organizations
" this city Resolutions were Sc
of from Ladies' Aid society of t
n. Baptist church, the Congregation
In Ladies Aid society, the faculty
a. the Bethany Ladies' college, t
in Presbyterian Ladies' Aid socie
% the Mankato Ladies' Relief socie
at the Clio club, the Mankato civ
Id Improvement league, the faculty
r. the Mankato Normal school, the |
to dies guild of st. Johns Episcol
or church, the Zetetic Reading eli
ed the Ladies Aid society of the c.
v, tenary Methodist church, and FRI
$. the Women's Catholic Order of F
We esters. These resolutions will
We published in full tomorrow.
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