The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-30
WILL INTRODUCE INNOVATION
Original idea of Russell H. Jones to
Eliminate Contagion Will Be Used
After Being Approved by Head Of
Wis Anti Tuberculosis Association.

Along about December ] all Of Keno
sha that finds itself doomed to illness
will hope that its trouble may be di-
agnosed as tuberculosis, for the most
ideal of sanitoriums is being complet
cd by the county fathers for the care
of white plague patients.
A splendid building to cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000, with an
equipment costing about $1,000, built
on charming site covered with pict-
uresque black walnut timber with all
the comforts for which the tubercular
long, will do much TO rob the patient
of any terror of the disease. The
eighty.seven acres in the site will allow
plenty of fresh air and freedom Co
tramp about in the seclusion of the
grounds The best of care will be at
forded the patients by the expert
nurses who will be in attendance and
the dietary will consist of the most
wholesome of foods and articles es-
pecially adapted to the physical needs
of the tubercular.
The management of the institution
will be in the hands of board Of trus-
tees that will be appointed by the
county board. A visiting physician
will also be appointed by that body.
Accommodation for twentyfour
patients will be furnished and of these
all will be single rooms except two
rooms on each floor which will have
two beds each. AT present the county
Is paying for five patients who are
being cared for in Racine, and it is
expected that with these enough
tubercular patients will be found in
the county as soon as the sanitorium
is opened to fill it to its capacity
immediately.
The staff Of the institution will con-
sist, beside its visiting physician Of
experimenting trained nurse, one
other trained nurse, two maids, one
cook and one caretaker
The administration part of the build
ing will be entirely separate from that
occupied by the patients and will be
accessible to the public through an en-
trance at the east end of the north
ing, while the patients will use the
two entrances on the Burlington road,
which is an extension of Division
street Of this city.
The patients will have beside their
separate rooms, large combination
dining and living room, at one end
of which a large open fire place will
give a hospital air and several rooms
will be at their disposal Everything
will be done in the furnishings to re-
lieye the place Of any suggestion Of a
hospital and to make il as homelike as
possible, Patients will find every eff
fort made to have them happy and
contented in mind as we'll as to inn
prove bodily conditions, as the newest
methods of treatment of the disease
put special stress upon the condition
of the mind.
County Clerk Russell III. Jones will
install an original idea and one which,
when presented by him to Dir. H. f.
Dearholt, a recognized authority on
tubercular disease, was given the
warmest approval by DR.. Dearholt.
Mr., Jones viii have all the linen used
by employees especially marked and will
use different style of china and cut
lery for the employees than for the
patients, thus precluding any posi-
bility of the employees contracting the
disease through contact with articles
infected by the patients.
Another provision for the comfort of
employees will be tiny roof garden
above the employees dining room,
living room ana bedrooms.
Although the contract calls for the
completion of the building November
l, unexpected delays will make it i'm
possible to move in before December 1.