Putnam patriot., 1915-06-18

Grant From General Assembly
 New Haven.-At the annual meet ing Of the New Haven Anti-Mber- culosis association at Gaylord Farm, in Nauingford, Governor Marcus II. Holcomb was present. as were many other notabIes.
 The following officers were chosen, each one being a reelection: Presi- dent. Charles F. Brooker. Ansouia; viee-presideut. Prof Henry w. Far nam, New Haven, Dr. Charles W. Gay lord BBranford; Dr. Henry L. Swain of this city; recording secretary. Al bert P. Dossin. Meriden; financial sec retary. Prof William Beehe, New Ha- ven: treasurer. Union and New Haven Trust company; chairman of the exec utive committee. Arthur Reed Kim ball. Waterbury
 Directors elected were. Alton Far rel, Ansonia; Irving Chase. Water bury; Prof. H. W Farman. New Ha- ven; Arthur R. KimbaH Waterbury; Carl E. Munger, Waterbury, and Henry Whittemore, Naugatuek.
 President Brooker delivered a re- port of the condition of the sanito- rum. The same harmony that the founder of the sanatorium. Dr. Ba- con so loved is still to be found fixture in the institution.
 Twenty-Five patients were regis tered atat the sanatorium in the be- ginning but this has grown from so small beginning to sizable hos pital. housing and treating f07
 Although the past year has been hard one financially, the institution has fared splendidly. the report showed
 The Gaylord farm has introduced an innovation in the form of an outside nurse who keeps in touch with the patients discharged from the sanator- ium. In this way much valuable data is gathered which will enable record to be kept as to how thorough are the cures effected
 The state general assembly was thanked for renewing the appropria- tion of s4 a week per patient.
 
 changed his mind regarding a single headed commission for the adminis- tration of the tuberculosis sanatoria in the state. He had favored the bill reducing the personnel of the board, but he Is now convinced that three men are necessary to conduct the af- fairs of the institution.
 Dr nlf,ar nebpv,,a f,, bfs ,annrt chairman of the medical committee said in part:
 Our second decade of the treat. ment of tuberculosis at the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium has well started with an average of more than hun. dfad patients Our statistics of sue. cess continue to show that the aver. age of so per cent. of patients with mild tuberculosis and 50 per cent of patients with severe tuberculosis are discharged with the disease arrested This is a percentage of which Con. neeticut should be proud.
 We had an epidemic of scarlet fev. CT last year. 1t began on July 2Sth. and quarantine was finally raised on Friday November the 18th. Please note the day and the date This ought to be a cure for superstition. We had twenty-two cases of scarlet fever, all in tuberculosis patients. We had no deaths; only one patient had trouble in the ears, and only four had any kidney complication, and these all recovered
 ''It will be interesting to note that our cattle, 52 in number. are all free from tuberculosis, and are all. except four our own cattle, raised on our farm.
 Tt will interest you, and our farm is proud of the fact that our milk shows but 13.600 bacteria to the cubic eentimeter Therefore, our milk is nearly four times as pure as is the standard for certified milk
 Our new laboratory, thoroughly equipped for bacteriologic and blood investigations. and equipped with the best possible x-ray apparatus. all of which has been long needed at the Gaylord farm, allows us not only to most scientifically treat our patients, but also gives the probabiiit yof as. pertaining some facts which will be of great value in the future manage ment of this disease.
 ",The childrens cottage has already proved it's great value. and we have had under treatment a considerable number of cases of surgical tuber. culosis. i. e., tuberculosis of the bones. joints and glands. The treatment of children at this institution will cer- tainly grow.