New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-01-13
New Ulm Fails
To Get Hospital
BROWN co. STANDS LITTLE
SHOW OF SECURING TUBER-
CULOSIS SANITARIUM
SEVERAL COUNTIES REPRESENT
ED SEEM TO FAVOR MAN.
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All attempts of the County Commits
sioners of this County to enter into
some arrangement with neighboring
counties whereby it was possible to have
a tuberculosis sanitarium located at
New Ulm have apparently failed. It
was first proposed to have Brown, Nicol-
let and Watonwan Counties join hands
and later on an effort was made to Sc
cure favorable action from the County
Commissioners of Redwood County.
The only County that went on record
favoring Brown County as the place for
the location of the hospital was Nicollet
County, the others showing lukewarm-
ness or even a hostile attitude and the
local board finally decided to give up
all further attempts to secure favorable
action.
The matter of tuberculosis sanitar-
ium has, however, not been allowed to
go to sleep and committee from here
went to Mankato Friday for the purpose
of meeting with delegations from other
Counties for the purpose of discussing
this matter fully. The local County
Board was represented by Commission
ers Graft and Henle from New Ulm,
Palmer from Sleepy Eye and Co. Attor-
ney A. Frederickson of Springfield. The
other Counties represented were Mic
ollet, Faribault, Watonwan, Waseca,
LeSueur, Blue Earth and Martin.
Late in the afternoon a commission
of eight members was appointed, con-
sisting of the chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners of theseC Counties,
whose duty it will be to investigate
thoroughly the probable cost of suit
able site and the necessary buildings
and the approximate cost to each county
for the maintenance of the same. As
soon as this information has been OBJ
tanned another meeting will be held at
ed.
The meeting was presided over by Dr..
A. F. Schmidt. DR.. Bracken, secre-
tary of the state board of health was
present and explained the plan of erect
ing tuberculosis sanitarium under par
tial state aid, and stated that the state
would be willing to pay one-haf Of the
cost of construction and equipment Of
such hospital up to 100000. He; alse
stated that where there are no SAM
tariums, the burden of the care of tu-
berculosis patients has to be borne by
the county and the township in which
they live, but where there are county
sanitariums one-half of the cost is paid
by the county and one-haf by the state.
In this way the burden is not SO heavy
on small community.
DR.. Bracken stated that a tubercu-
losis survey of Blue Earth county had
been made, which showed that there are
at present the time in the county sc
open cases of tuberculosis and Is cases
in the early stages of the disease. These
early stages if taken in the start can
be best controlled by segregation in
the home or the sanitarium.
DR.. Bracken said that it is much
cheaper to care for the people afflicted
with tuberculosis than to care for the
children after their parents death.
The state of Minnesota at the present
time is spending over four millions OF
dollars in the education of the children
but practically nothing toward safe
guarding the health of the people. With
out health, he stated, education is of
little value. For that reason he thought
that it is imperative on the part of the
counties and state to provide for the safe
guarding of the health by providing these
sanatariums. All of the delegations
present were heard from on this propo-
sition and aired their view.
DR.. O. M. Haugen of Fergus Falls
gave an account of the establishment and
operation Of the Ottertail County tu-
berculosis sanitarium. He regretted
that Ottertail county had not united
with other counties round it and under
taken the sanitarium project on lager
scale. The establishment of. that SAM
tarium had cost about $4,000.
DR.. Haugen said mistake had been
made in locating the sanitarium. It
was too difficult to reach. A tuber-
culosis sanitarium should be placed
where people could get ct it. The Otter
Tail county sanitarium had been built on
. tract Of sixty acres that had been
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