The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-07
Commercial Club Will Ask
Appropriation of S25, 600 in
Making County Budget
Next Year.
lPa SENT PLANS CALL
NHsgR THREE BUILDINGS
Statement Shows Per Capita
Expense of Institutions in
Other States Ranges at ST.
rs a Day.

If the plans of the public health com.
mittee of the Commercial club, with
the entire club membership behind it,
materialize, the county council will
include In its budget next September
an appropriation of $4,000 or $4,000
for a county tuberculosis hospital.
The committee has been working on
the idea year and now eliminated
the Investigations.
Will Quigg, chairman Of the commit
tee, reported to the board of, directors
of the Commercial club last night, the
desire of the committee to bring it's
work to a climax by presenting the
data 1t has collected to the county
commissioners and county council.
The board was unanimous in its
support of the movement and discuss
ed at length the advantages of the
hospital to the community.
The committee gave the following
plan of a small community hospital
with accommodations for about fifty
or sixty patients:
Plan Outlined.
Administration building Two
story building, high basement, ten
foot porch across front with seven
foot porches along sides, half way
back, both upstairs and down. First
floor, doctors and superintendent s
office, kitchen, dining room and sitting
room, all open, with folding doors lead
to hall. Second floor. medium sized
rooms opening on porch. Cost of
building about $4,000.
Pavilion for advanced cases. About
twenty rooms. ten by twelve feet,
] fronting on an eleven-foot porch Big
room in center. Cost of building about
$4,000 or less ,-.-.- 49,. =. . ~
Lean-to for incipient cases. No eel
lars and plenty of porch room. Slight
cost for construction.
The committee figures conservative
1y that there are about three hundred
cases of tuberculosis in the county,
and showed that there are annually
about sixty deaths from the disease.
Tuberculosis kills more people than
any other ten diseases" the report
reads. Every two hours a resident
of this state dies from tuberculosis,
statistics for the past seven years
show"
Data From New York.
A score Of counties in New York,
Ohio and Indiana presented the COM
mittee with additional argument in
favor of the hospital. The commit
tee expects to have such strong case
against tuberculosis when it is pre-
sented to the commissioners at their
June session, that defeat of the hos
pital plan will be impossible.
The Wayne county Medical Society
pledged ardent support in a report sub
mitted to the committee in December.
but not publicly presented to the club
until last night
In part the report said
From our investigation at your re-
quest, and our personal knowledge,
We find that actual experience has
shown county hospitals for the treat
ment Of tuberculosis to be far supe-
rior-to state or city hospitals. One Of
the primary principles of county tu-
berculosis hospital is to protect the
community from infection. The aim
to cure the patients is of course not
overlooked"
The report discussed at length the
danger of infection. and condemned
home curing Of the disease.
Hospitals in other states have been
successful. and the expense small. The
per capita expense averaged in a
number about 1925 day. AS many
patients are admitted without cost, the
institutions are not entirely self-sup-
porting. but there would be little ex-
pense on the county, the committee
believes.