Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-08-05
DR. WATTAM WRITES
TO COMMISSIONERS
Continued from page one.


culosis commission be given plenary,
autocratic powers and be accountable |
TO no one and subject to no super /
vision Of any kind. from any source, /
IS one that will find little support +
elsewhere than among your MEM |
befs.
The State advisory comm ission IS
made up Of persons who have made
a study of and possess special krlewf-
edge relating to the disease tuhercu
IosiS, it's care, treatment and cure.
To advise with it concerning the
selection Of a site the construction
of buildings and their equipment is
not onIv the natural but the only
proper thing for the county COM
missioners to do.
The county commission would con-
sist Of three members, one of whom
shall be a licensed physician. Were
it not required by law that the
appointment of superintendent of
the sanatorIun1 must be approved by
the advisory commission before it
shall become effective. what would
there be to prevent majority of the
county commission from choosing an
incompetent, inexperienced, unquali-
fed and wholly undesirable incun1-
bent Of that position? Nor does the
state, IN this case, insist upon more
supervision than it exercises over
other Institutions to which It contrib
utes fo2. estab lisflment and n1ainten-
ance. 4 case IN point may be found
IN our public and high schools to
which the state grants special aid.
If the Inspector discovers that a
school has not complied with the re-
quirements laid down by the states
educational department, relative to
size and method of construction of
It's buildings, provisions fer heating,
Lighting and ventilating. space ds
voted to special departments, time
| given to Instruction IN certain
branches, and so on. no special aid
viii be paid to that school
| The actual construction and equip
ment of the county sanatoriln Is
| placed IN the hands of the state
board Of control. In the very nature
| of things. this was the only DISPOSE
ton tie legislatures could make Of
| it, Ln-as-much as the state bears
| half the burden of the work, the cost
of the site, building and equipment,
it would be derelict IN it's duty to
the state, If it We're to permit the
states money to be spent without an
accounting from officials directly res
| ponsible to the state for their acts.
| Taxation without representation is a
violation of the spirit of the Ameri-
can system of government and for
the state to spend money. wrung
from the citizens by taxation, with
out exercising any supervision over
it's expenditure, would be a fragrant
abuse of it's power.
i I cannot understand the reason
for your objection to state super
vision. There IS nothing to warrant
! the assumption or even a suspicion
that the state advisory commission
will not act from the purest motives
2 and solely in the interests of the
common welfare IN the performance
4 of it's duties of supervising county
/ sanatoria.
!. Condition No, 4.
, The building of this instutier
t without state aid:
/ This cannot be done without tbs
enactment Of a law expressly per
! hitting It. and : am informed, tina
f it IS a question whether or no such
0 I law would be constitutional. How
t ever, it Is sufficient to say that. .
a the law now stands, the count
: board IS wholly without authority [
e construct a sanatariun except q
t provided for in the law that require
n state supervision Were the count
= board given such authority and wei
It it to take advantage of it, the count
: would not only loose the states fiji
ii anciaI assistance, but also the ben,
d fit Of the advisory commission
a knowledge, experience and advic
If the value of which is incalculab
t. and equally as valuable to US as Il
lie states money.
C. Why should we make provision
u this time for the building of SAN
* toriun1 FOR persons suffering fro
tuberculosis Because tsgherculas
l. L i. contagious and INFECTIOUS di
g ease. Ike small pox, diphteria, sea
is let fever, measles and typhoid feve
G. and It causes many more dealt
than all the others put together.
r. Marshall County about one-sevent
II Of al our deaths are due to tuberc1
re losis and unlike Other contagious di
" eases, II Is on the increase as we q.
= unable to prevent its spread BY Va
If cination and quarantine. IN til
County the death rate IS 50 per ee,
TO. higher than the AVERAGE for Mi :
sd sota and almost twice tnat Of
If son or Red Lake County, aff;oini,
Us. Every year we have nun1ero
cases IN this county which. unable