Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-11-09
State Tuberculosis sanatorlnm.

The present legislature of the State o.!
NJ aine passed an act entitled "An Act to
Provide for the Care and Treatment OF
Tubercular Persons" by the terms Of
which the Governor was to appoint q
board OF five persons who should acquire
by purchase, lease or otherwise, sanato.
ria in such location as in their judgment
were best adapted for their purposes,
and ths sum OF SIS 900 was appropria; ed
for the use of the trustees by said act.
The members and trustees OF the
Maine State Sanatorium association, be
lieving that by this act the state of
Maine is finally and fully committed to
the proper care and treatment of suffer.
ers from Tuberculosis, have transferred
| to the state the sanatorum at Hebron,
together with all of its equipment and
invested funds.
This sabatorium Is recognized as one
OF the most complete ard efficient iu the
country, and at the present time can
care for about SIS patients. 1t has reach
ed It's present state of efficiency after
many years of intelligent, constant and
arduous labor on the part of DIR. Estes
Nichols, aided by the trustees OF the in
stitution.
The property thus acquired by the
81 ate consists of real estate and equip
ment which have cost about $4,000
cash and accounts receivable in the
amount of about $4,000. and endow-
ment funds of abb q $4,000, making
a total of about s9O0,0O0 10 addition
to the above the income Of the Cham
berlin Endowment Fund of 5000, 900, also
may pass to the state, but this will be
Diet. rmined later.
In payment for the above, the state
has assumed all current outstanding
bills of the institution amounting to
about $12, 900, and bas paid to its trus-
tees the sum of $4,000, which will be
used by the trustees only for the pur.
pose of meeting sundry legal and mora
obligations of the Sanatorium, and the
balance, il any, will be returned to the
state. The transaction is therefore a
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
follows:
ITO the end that the purposes and
hopes of the founders of said sanatori'
um may be fully met, and in order that
the financial aid given to 1t by its friends
and benefactors in the past shall con-
tinue to be used for the purposes for
which 1t was given, said state OF Maine
further agrees that the property thus
purchased shall be used in it's present
location as a sanatorium for the care
and treatment of tubercular persons;
that only so-called curable cases shall
be admitted to it for treatment; that its
buildings and grounds shall be main
tanned and kept up from year to year In
the same general condition as hereto
fore; that the service and treatment &C.
corded to patients shall be virtually OF
the same high standard of efficiency az
in the past, and that in all respects said
shall be continued by said
State of Maine as an institution OF the
first class for the care aud treatment OF
tubercular persons"
This condition has been accepted by
the state, so that all who have contrib
uted to the Sanatorium in the past may
now rejoice that this great institution is
to continue along the broad lines estsb-
lshed by its founders aud be in the fu.
ture as it has been heretofore, lone OF
the first class for the care and treatment
of sufferers from tuberculosis"