Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-10
BOARD MEMBERS HOLD
CAUCUS MONDAY NIGHT
Joseph T. Bennett Reelected
Chairman for Year.
DR.. McBeath, Livingston and DR.. Har-
ringtOn, Milwaukee, Argue for Tu-
bercUIOsis Sanitarium.

County board members met in eau
Gus Monday evening, George Brown
Of MilIville acting as temporary chair
man. BY unanimous vote Joseph T.
Bennett, the present chairman, was
renOminated to serve for the ensuing
year John LOngbotham member from
Paris, suggested that board members
take a trip Wednesday over the Platte
ville-Dubuque highway to the Eagle
Point high bridge and return to Lam
caster via Potosi. The members
seemed to feel that the business mat
tiers would be too pressing on that day
and If such a trip is taken for the pur-
pose of inspecting this highway it will
have to be made later in the week.
Mr.. Brown introduced DR.. McBeath
of Livingston, who read paper from
the Grant county medical society, tell
ing of the need of a tuberculosis san
itarium in this county and giving many
facts and figures in support of such an
institution. Mr.. McBeath said that
Germany had, through its sanitariums,
reduced the death rate from this dis
ease over fifty per cent and the state
of Massachusetts siXty-three per cent.
Germany and England expect to en-
tireIy wipe out the disease in the next
forty years. New York has made de-
creases of over sixteen per cent in
the last fifteen years. Chapter 475,
laws Of 1911, give the counties author
ity to erect these sanitariums, said DR..
McBeath. He spoke of the impossible
ity Of laymen having the disease prop
erly caring for themselves or protect
ing the members of their family when
the disease is treated in their own
homes A large number of Wisconsin
counties are equipped and are making
a fight on the disease at the present
time, but they are overcrowded and
durable patients from other counties
are unable TO get in for treatment.
Dr. T. L. Harrington of Milwaukee.
member of the executive committee
and vice president of the Wisconsin
Anti tuberculosis association, follow
ed DR.. McBeath. DR.. Harrington was
called upon to supplant another phys
ician who was to have addressed the
County Medical society at their Mon
preparation Nevertheless he delivered
a splendid address and gained the
close attention of his audience. DR..
Harrington said that the physicians
as a whole were behind the movement
to reduce tuberculosis, and as body
worked for the time when they could
practice preventive medicine. He
quoted Gladstone the great English
statesman, who said 1.-The strength
OF a nation depends upon the health
of the people" Ten per cent of the
deaths are due to tuberculosis, an
army so large that the present losses
in war sink into insigniicence. Tu-
bercuIosis is a preventable disease,
and disease of civilization. If cared
for in a sanitarium more than sixty
per cent of the cases recover under
sanitarium treatment and the public,
relatives and friends are protected
from infection while the patient can
be visited and does not die of home
sickness as is often the case when he
goes to a Western resort. After his
address Dr. Harrington answered
questions put to him by the board
members
Grant county may or may not de-
eide to erect such an institution at the
present time, but eventually it will do
so was DR.. HarringtOn's final con-
victiOn
The board will consider the mat
ter of a Grant county tuberculosis
sanitarium at the present meeting.