Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-10-27
STATE SANATORIUM.

Institution at Hebron Has Been
Transferred to State.
The present Legislature OF the State Of
Maine passed an set entitled "An act to
provide for the care and treatment Of
tubercular persons" by the terms of
which the governor was to appoint .
board of five persons who should acquire
by purchase. lease or otherwise, sanstoria
in such locations as in their judgment
were best adapted for their purposes. and
the sum OF $4,000 was appropriated for
the use of the trustees by said act.
The mem bers and trustees OF the Maine
State Sanatorium association, believing
that by this act the State OF Maine is f.
nslIy and fully committed to the proper
care and treatment of sufferers from
tuberculosis, have transferred to the State
the sanatorium a, Hebron, together with
all OF its equipment and invested funds.
This sanstorium is recognized as one of
the most complete and efficient in the
country, and at the present time can care
for about eighty-ive patients II has
reached IFS present state of efficiency after
many years OF Intelligent, constant and
srduous labor on the part of Or. Estes
Nichols, aided by the trustees of the in
stitution.
The property thus acquired by the State
consists of real estate and equipment
which have cost about $4,000 cash and
about $1,000, and endowment funds of
about $4,000, making total of about
500. 900. In addition to the above, the ill.,
come CT ths Chamberlin endow ment fund
Of 800 900, also may pass 10 the State, but
this will De determined later
In payment for the above, the State has
assumed all current outstanding bills of
the institution, amounting to about s12.-
600, and has paid TO its trustees the sum OF
SIS, $50, wnich will be used by the trustees
only for the purpose of meeting sundry
legal and moral obligations OF the sana-
forum, and the balance, il any, will be
returned TO the State. The transaction is,
therefore, virtual gift OF this entire
property to the State.
One OF the conditions of the deed con-
veying the property TO the State is as fol-
lows:
To the end that the purposes and hopes Of
the founders Of said sanatorium may he fully
met. and in order that the financial aid given
to it by its friends and benefactors in the
past shall continue to be used for the pur-
poses for which it was given. said State o,
Maine further agrees that the property thus
purchased shall be used in its present loca-
tion as a sanatorium for the care and treat
ment Of tubercuiar persons: that only So
called durable cases shall be admitted to il
for treatment; that its buildings and grou nds
shall be maintained and kept up from year
to year in the same general condition as here
tofore; that the service and treatment ac-
corded to patients shall be virtually Of the
same high standard of efficiency as in the
past. and that in all respects said institution
shall be continued by said State OF Maine as
an institution of the first class for the care
and treatmen Mt Of tubercular persons.
This condition has been accepted by the
State, SO that all who have contributed 10
the sanatorium in the past may now re-
joice that this great institution is to con-
tinue along the broad lines established by
its founders, and be in the future as it has
been heretofore, one Of the first class for
the care and treatment OF sufferers from
tuberculosis.