The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-04
ROAST MEAT FOR THE DEAD.
How Patients are Treated in T'lbercu-
 losis Sanatoriums.

4-<7F| -4tA---O1zs 4-Ae-1 en roast meat and vegetables to eat,' vas the amazing statement made by former Commissioners John F Gun Etaannan in an address made peIoIs pe,'s inc Holy Name society in this cltys Sunday afternoon MT Gunsnahhan 2 ss,,f3ect was aTreatment Of TupereuiSs1 Patientsrs and he cited many lnstancezs s57s ssfaovVfnzx great need for reform Tn the +,,i,errI1lo<is saratoriums. It had been frequently said during his term ol W ,o1-. o1- fi~e that too much money was pald TOT food that the best food was pLs pul chased, and that patients coulo gse along on a cheaper grade and rnerepy ,ss1zfs th<, state money. but those who always advanced this argum enl iwere z,a-so-,s= who were drawing rat saAafy and could enjoy the luxurles oL 's nAe. and in their opinion any kand oA ~hOoa ~ vzrs good enough for the poor work- zx,rTr1szn or woman who happened fo fall a victim to the great Wnias plague
 probr1ated, without a dissent in g voice. saVerx penny asked for for the man s.-,s-,s>ts If these unfortunate sufferers and the speaker made. 1t clear to many of its members that it was not sNnas s the patients eat but what poor man nan a szement wasted that made the cost r~eat. If your physician was to ylslf vsEr horne and prescribe meal oI S-orned beef and cabbage or 1ranA- e,---+, and sas1er- kraut for a person ID a dyfrlF condition you would ttnln A ns B .zseasH his head exarnineds ut this as z cornrnon com plaint, in one o1 tns cstate szauatoxiurns st least
 MT <strrsh amman said that shortly H,efore he was retired from the com. raission he visited sanatof1un With fhe members of the ppropris ton com Maittee of the last general aSsellsoay fAls x. 1E was during the noon ho71r and m -nsssfnr through the iRfrfna.E he no 4Scad a man raised up in sbed and xElonEEide of the bed was 2 r3a astSneA1 and vegetable dinner Whieh was spelng served 10 him. The speaker called the astfeutfor of Repr esentative William Free and others of the committee TO fkis incident at the time to show Sem -houthe states money was being
 s stssa.A is as ss the man was dead and N$d been So for some time
 WASTE or FOOD
 rhe speaker said he was always rbposed to the practice Of all patients --zr.eixf1=r the 8sarne kind of food and believed that persons in a dying con Hstfor should be placed on soft Siet Hs stated that at one time af- tzr he had seen IS dim CTS of lamb &zso7ss including the side dishes which @ser4 rot touek5sd SbS the patients. tak sf1 avrav and 4lrown fn the garbage. fas all food left by the patients must bs thrown aWay) he got permission to have his system tried Ut at tns Hartford Institution for one month .ia with the result that the meat bill -zas reduced about $500. and avery pa- 4zent was prpvided with food which +tex could eaf O5Thls con mon-seuse Fystetn he regretted t1 say was not rtntinued-
 PATIENTS COMPLAIN
 Tt Id sad indeed to hear patzents in cae If the Institutions com plain. th at thev cannot have eggs for no1r1shmeng .excepf on the doctor's prescr1p pt1on, when on the other hand you read 6< persons waiting to be hanged at fefherzfieId for foul murder com r3fttexi who are given the very best af food ana whatever they deslres and fsse question naturally arises- are mur- 4aerers t5 be bette st treat tne11t than the honest poor who are afflicted vlth taberculosis7 The pubic 's,1 has Been edueated to- know tfatz the prop sf treatment is plenty of good food, Principally milk and eggs. fresh air and rest
 PATIENT AsSABL7ED-
 MT. sunshannan next took up the question os medical eatn1eilt and said that little or no medicine was given naxients and told how the medical au- 4f,0rfties of the country made this fact clear when last year they drove Dr. 7srefdraa11n out of the country on the ground that there was no medicine 441f fuOcTculOS1S- He dl<50 LULU how some months ago a patient at the Hartford state institution asked the physician in charge if he would give him something to relieve the pain he was suffering from rheuIn tisu1. ana he received blow in the face from 4he pfaysician- The patient had him arrested and fined in the Newington town court for assault A very sick %oa1rr woman a short time ago was found drowned in bath tub and a Hartford newspaper h pusa1shlng the fl. incident stated that if was through inc death certificate which gave the cause of death as accidental drown 5ne. that her friends were made aware of the fact
 PATIENTS DRTNK LIQUOR.
 The arestion of strong drink among 4satzents is causzng much trouble for 4he rnanagementa and many have been discharEed for intox1caf1on only to lind themselves outcasts as the law pro- wfdes against admitting them to an shouse, rarld last March a man was arrested for brealing into a small rallraad station In Hartford at night and told fhe court that ke did 1t to get warm, as he had no other place % go, he having tuberculosis, and was HischaxEed from ass, sa.natorium 5for drunkenness He was sent to jafI for 90 days, the only place that would receive him This is a pity when we stop to consider that in the press od the country we find such eminent men as Prof R C. Rosenberger Of lJeffer- son Medical College, Philadelphia, who from experiments made states that fa5sasszl0sis-gsrnz --droun quickly in <Thfskey Is it any wonder then that patients take to drinking whiskey in- stead of solid food, which they are unable to eat7
 PATIENTS REFUSED AID.
 The mill employees of Rockville or Eanized a relief association last sum rner ana when the speaker visited thai EsasSk E d 10 sonsns3s as8 3Asa I they ly'rsase were unable to get any worker who had che disease to go to the sanatorium