Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-14
|C|TY MAY TAKE
OVER PINE CAMP
Conference on tuberculosis San
atorium to Be Held Next
Week.
SCOTT EXPLAINS SITUATION
Urgent Need Is for Enlarged Fa-
cilities and Removal of Col
ored Consumptives.

Pursuant to instructions from the
Common Council, the Council Finance
Committee will next week take up
with the Administrative Board the
question of making an immediate APP
Precipitation for the relief OF Pine
Camp. The committee will meet
Tuesday night for, the consideration
OF It's regular docket, and will .prob
ably at that time give this pressing
matter it's attention.
Chief Health Officer Levy has writ
ten to Chairman Barton IL. Grumpy,
Of the Finance Committee. cmpliasiz-
ing Pine Camps crisis, and recon-
mending Immediate relief. Assurances
received by the Pine Camp authorities
from individual members of the COM
mlttee promise an early adjustment OF
tho Tuberculosis Camp Society's dir
flcultica.
MISTAKEN IMPRESSION.
SAYS FIRED W. SCOTT
There is a mistaken Impression
abroad that in taking over Pine Camp
the city would be assuming charge of
private enterprise In no way re-
lated to the municipalities" said Pres I
ident Fred w. Scott, Of the Tubercu-
losis Camp Society. yesterday. Moth
ing could be further from the truth
The camp is to-day practically civic
enterprise. 1t is located on property
leased from the city, it's patients are
taken altogether from the city, and
are selected by tic Richmond Health
Department. and the greater part of
the annual sum required for it's sup
port is appropriated by the city
The society has spent approximate
~ $4,000 in establishing a plant and
cquipping IT. For years II has strain
cd every effort to raise money for it's
maintenance. The burden has become
too heavy. The care OF the in,ligcnt
CN IN ell mt iI-n 10,
city and not the duty Of Il few citizens
We have reached tho point where we
are no longer able to maintain the in
Stitution as should be maintained
II viii have to be taken over by the
city or closed. The society owes for
the supplies that have been furnished
the camp since November |. and the
indebtedness is increasing"
The activity Of other cities I'm pro-
viding treatment for their INDECENT
consumptives, said Mr.. Scott. is shown
In the case of Atlanta which has this
year appropriated approximately $50
GOD FOR the maintenance of it's tubcr-
culosis sanitorium. The city of Rich-
mond for the past two years hns,ap-
proprtated $4,000 annually towards the
support Of Pine Camp--the only direct
appropriation for the alienation OF this
disease.
ATLANTA SASATORIUM NOW
CARES FOR $50 PATIENTS
The Atlanta sanatorium cares for $50
patients-l00 white and fifty ctloretl
AZ Pine Camp there are at present
thlrty-siN white patients. all that can
be accommodated with the present
equipment. There arc few colorcd
consumptivcs at the City Home. cared
for. however. under conditions which
place the patients under severe
handicap.
The tuberculosis Camp Society has
ofered to turn over TO the city the en-
tire Pine Camp plant without cost In
view OF the fact that the city now ap-
propriates more than two-thirtls Of the
camps maintenance, the assumption OF
inc entire expense is not looked upon
with alarm by the city authorities.
Councilmen who have expressed their
opinions In the matter almos, without
exception favor the immediate taking
over of tho camp by the city.
AT the last meeting Of the Common
Council the Mayor presented com
munication urging emergency meas
ures TO relieve the straits In which tho
camp now fnds itself. Pending ar
engagements of more permanent ma
ture. the Mayors recommendation was
referred to the Finance COMMITTEES
with instructions to confer with tho
administrative Board and report as
early as practicable a plan for cxtcnu-
Ing temporary relief.