The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-25
STUDY SANATOR|UM NEEDS
Members Of the Board Find Many
Points Of Interest at Gathering In
Milwaukee Of Members Of Board
Of Trustees from Other Hospitals.

The members Of the board of trus.
tees Of the new Kenosha county Willow
Brook Sanatorium held their first meet.
ing Thursday when they went to Mil.
waukee to study hospital problems at
the meeting Of the trustees Of SINH
lar sanatorias located in other counties
in the state. In the party were Will
liam F. Fisher, Thomas Fleming, w. T.
Marlatt and DR.. j. j. McShane.
The most interesting feature Of the
visit was the trip made to Muirdale,
the new sanatorium Of Milwaukee
county. This is declared to be the
most perfect institution Of the kind
ever planned. Milwaukee county Is
preparing an institution which ulti'
mately will take care of more than FIVE
hundred patients. Two floors Of it are
now completed and the first list Of
patients have been transferred from
the Greenfield sanatorium. The Muir
dale sanatorium when completed will
represent an expenditure of close to
a million dollars and its every feature
has been planned as the last word in
sanatorium construction. Special rooms
are provided for doctors, for nurses
and for administration. Special atten-
ton is given to the sterilization of all
dishes used by patients. The wards
are SO arranged as to make possible
the grading Of patients so that those
suffering from the incipient forms Of
tuberculosis do not come into contact
with those in the advanced forms. The
sanatorium is planned to take care of
all patients from Milwaukee county and
it is expected that it will be filed pref.
ty nearly to its capacity.
The members Of the board Of trus-
tees of Willow Brook found It posi-.
BILE to get lot of pointers on manage.
ment Of such institutions. They quiz.
zed the trustees and superintendent of
other institutions freely and got lot
of information as to salaries to be paid
to employees Of the Kenosha county
institution, Of buying supplies, Of EN-.
ploying patients at light work about
the institution. Many interesting sug-
gestions were secured as to the saving
of resources and money for the county
in connection with the management of
Willow Brook. The members Of the
board of trustees were impressed with
the fact that much could be saved for
the county by careful management.
Present at the conference of the trus.
tees and superintendent were many
men and women who have been long
connected with the work of battling
tuberculosis in the state and these peo-
pie were able to give lot Of informa-
ton of greatest value to the board.
The members Of the Kenosha board
are planning to send out in the near
future letter to county judges which
will call attention to the fact that the
local institution will be opened be-
tween the first and the fifteenth of
January for the acceptance Of patients.
It is thought that there will be
patients sent in from several of the
counties in the state and the care Of
these patients will go long way
toward making up the cost of the man
agement Of the institution. Before the
opening of Willow Brook the trustees
will decide on the amount to be charg-
ed for the care of patients The charge
now being made in similar institutions
in other counties is ten dollars a week.
Some Of the superintendent have held
that this charge is net sufficient to
make the housing Of patients from
other counties profitable and this is one
Of the points which will be carefully
looked into by the trustees Of the Ke.
nosha institution.
It is probable that the first formal
meeting Of the trustees will be held in
the near future and at that time Of.
fcers will be elected and plans made
for taking over the sanatorium. The
members OF the board are working in
complete harmony with the members
of the county board committee in all
plans relating to the future Of the
sanatorium.