The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-26
MAY Be COMP ETEO IN 1915
Committee is Expected to Have Plans
and Specifications and Suggestions
for Sites at the January Meeting of
the Board Many People Rejoice.


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There is going to be united action
to secure the erection of the Kenosha
County Tuberculosis Sanatorium for
which the members of the county board
of supervisors made an appropriation
OF twenty thousand dollars at the close
of the session of the board on Friday
afternoon and it is certain that there
is not going to be. any friction over the
selection of the site or The plans and
specifications for the building There
are a lot of different organizations in
terested in this big work, but there is
not going to be any fall down like there
was the time the board made former
appropriation for this purpose.
Leaders Of the tuberculosis associa-
ton in Kenosha declare that they have
no suggestions to make to the county
board as to the site to be selected for
the institution as with the building of
excellent roads throughout the county
one site is just as good as another.
People who have taken great inter
est in the movement to secure the hos
pital believe that the twenty thousand
dollars appropriated by the board viii
be found sufficient to secure a site and
build an institution ample for the pres
emit demands of the county and they
feel certain that future county boards
will not be opposed to making add
tional appropriations if there is need
of larger building.
1t is thought that a site for the hos
pital can be secured for somewhere in
the neighborhood of $4,000 and this will
leave $4,000 for the erection of the
building. Several sets of plans have
been in the hands of the various or
CARNATIONS in the city and these or
CARNATIONS are ready to turn these
over to the special committee of the
board which is to report at the Janu-
ary session. With united action on the
part of the borrd as shown by the
unanimous vote for the appropriation
it is thouiht that the new institution
can be completed and ready for the re
ception of patients by the end of the
summer of 1915. It is suggested that
the administration section of the sana-
forum be erected with a great deal of
care and made the last word in such in
stitutions and that the sleeping quart
ers be made to conform with the most
approved models. A sanatorium large
enough to take care of twenty patients
would probably meet the demands of
Kenosha county at the present time,
but it is probable that the committee
after study of the conditions will
recommend larger institution.
The people of Kenosha county have
been leaders in the great fight against
tuberculosis from the inception of the
movement and the action of the
county board in granting support to the
big movement has brought great re-
loicing among the leaders of the move
ment. They see in this action the
greatest humanitarian appropriation
ever made by the county board. 1t is
probable that as a result of this appro-
priation it will be necessary for the
board to levy county tax for the
building of the institution, but even
with such county tax the demands
for state and county taxes will be a
great deal less. than they were in 1918.
The great majority of the people of
the city and county will feel that it is
a pleasure to pay this small tax with
the assurance that within short time
an Institution will be built to take care
of patients in the last stages of con-
sumption and guarantee to the people
proper protection for the children
against this dread disease.