The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
MUST CLOSE PINE CAMP
UNLESS CITY LENDS AID
Urgent Condition OF Only Refuge for
Tubercular Patients Re-
ported to Mayor.
OFFER HOSPITAL no CITY
Otherwise. Home for INDECENT Con-
sumptives May BE Closed--Council
Has Delayed Action or Purchase
OF City Farm.

without funds to continue it's work
aud facing speedy dissolution unless
help is provided at once. the Tubercu-
loEis Camp Society of Richmond ap-
nealed yesterday to Mayor Ainslio for
advice and aid to the end that the city
authorities may take over the manage
nient OF the enterprise and prevent its
abandonment.
Tho letter to the Mayor is signed
by Edmund Strudwick. vice president,
and Fred W. Scott, treasurer, OF the
society. 1t expresses the Judgment
Of the management that the affairs Of
9,e tuberculosis Camp Society have
reached crisis and that Pine Camp
VIII have to DO closed OH November /,
unless IL Is taken over by the city OH
TINT date and It's affairs administered,
thereafter by tho city authorities.
Pine Camp was esta blished about
five years ago by the Tuberculosis
Camp Society of Richmond as IA purely
private bcnevoience for the treatment
OF INDECENT white tuberculosis sufferers
Since It's establishment II has cared for
297 white iDdigents suffering from the
disease In its advanced stages.
ONLY ASYLUM OPEN
TO TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS
The camp has been the only asylum
available to the city for sufferers of
THU class. Tho patients wore removed
rs source OF infection from the COM
muElty, segregated, and given skiiful
medical treatment and the advantages
or a well-cquipped modern hospital free
Of charge.
For tho flrst two years of Its exist
cnce the camp was maintained exclu-
eiyely by private contributions To-
wards the third years support tho city
contributed the sum OF $1,000. For the
past two years the city has appro-
pr'atcd to tho camp $4,000 annually.
Tho city's contributions for tho past
three years represented about two
uiirdsof the total cost Of maintcnarn re-
The plant now represents An invest /.
tnent OF $4,000. Tho capacity of the
camp mas been Increased from twenty
beds to thirty-six beds. but its present
capacity is entirely Inadequate to ac-
commodate the Increasing number OF
INDECENT white tuberculosis cases, which
constitute n constant menace to the
health of the community.
OFFERED TO TURN
PLANT OVER TO CRY
Early this year the management OF
the Tuberculosis Camp Society offered
tn turn over tho plant without charge
10 tho Administrative Board, on con-
dft'on that the city erect two addis
ttonal pavi!ions and assume complete
charge. The board took the offer un-
uer consideration. II is understood
that the boards plan was to found ut
Pine Camp an enlarged institution,
wlth facilities to care for all indigo mt
tuberculosis sufferers who desired free
treatment. whether the applicants were
white or colored.
The plan. II Is stated, was held up
by the delay in adjusting the city
farm proposition. 1t was planned by
the board to remove TO tile propos ed
city farm all the indigents now housed
Mt the City Home. With this accom-
plished, the plan called for the cree
ton OF two separate colored units at
Pine Camp. at some distance from the