Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-26

In the annual report of the state tuberculosis commission just issued, the following report is made on the Norwich sanatorium
 It was nearly five months after the conclusion of the period covered by our last report before the Norwich sana- torium was completed. It rapidly filled with patients, and promptly cap tured the sympathetic interest not only Of the people of the eastern end of the state but also of the sociological work CTS throughout the state. At this san atorium the general purposes and methods were, of course, the same as at the other sanatorias but in some particulars the technique was diferent For instance it was decided to have practically all the nursing dono by nurses who were "cures;" it was de- cided to absolutely prohibit the use of tobacco: it was decided to develop a system of unpaid graduate work for patients, merely as therapeutic measure. How much this new tech niqUe has had to do with the cond!- tions now found at Norwich sanatorl- um may be debatable. These condt- tiors may have resulted from the eN- ecutive capacity of the superintendent, Lynch, and their staff of helpers. and from the fact that they began work in an entirely new institution, an institu- tion that itself had no bad habits, and WAS not ONSTHuelIHSu III tue bSE AilIAlilS with patients from almshouses; but. whatever their cause, the conditions now found in the Norwich sanatOriunl are 8 decency and cleanliness and cheerfulness of atmosphere and build ings and patients. and a spirit of camaraderie between the sick and the well that it is good to sec.
 The improvements since the opening of the institution have been the re- frigerating plant: the grading and road building: a steam cooking apparatus; the devisirg of necessary rooms in the helps quarters; the conCreting of the cellar; the building of a root cellar; a trolley waiting station; dry wall 10 protect the cellar; manure pits; drains; an incinera.tor building; a sludge bed; the painting and reftting of the old farTnl1 1ouse and barn.
 To prepare for the future develop nent of the Norwich sanatorium it will be necessary to build a recreation pa viIion; several isolation rooms; a su- perintendeut's cottage; a poultry house; g water tank; an incinerator, and to purchase additional land.
 States Campaign Against White
 Plague.
 The remarkable character of the states campaign against the white plague" is outlined in the report made by the Tuberculosis commission to Governor HOlCOmb. This Is the fourth general assembly, the report says that has been asked to appropriate money for the purpose of controlling and eradicaGng tuberculosis, the dis ase that causes more physical and so- cial misery and greater financial loss to the people of the state than car be charged to any other evil thing. The commission says the last three general assemblies showed their wish to Gc everything possible to protect Con ster. The results are, in brief: four sanatoria with 8 capacity of 500 beds at an approximate annual mainten- ance of 8 quarter off a million of dol lars; a campaign which compares fa.- vorabIy with that carried on anywhere in the world; relief afforded by the sanatoria to individuals and families and societies and communities has been so great that a. return to the condition of the pre-sanatoriun are inconceiYable: and it is easily shown that for all the large sums of money expended, the state has already been repaid by the monetary value to heI of the labor of the patients in whom the disease has been arrested, and by the earnings and savings of the friend: of patients which, but for the sana,- toria, would have been directed to the unproductive work of caring for the sick at home
 Future Works
 The commission devotes attention tc future work, or, as the report puts it questions of Strategy The esti- mate is that there are from 10000 tC 16,000 cases of consumption in thu