Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-14
COMMISSION HEAR
SANAT0RIUM HEAD
Dr. ,. A. ksfied<e % NJ ". A Ins,itn-
tien- says u weuie Bs Asset TO
City.
mas EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGE
Replies % Points Raised By Residents
FrotsstinE Against Location In
Hin District

NsstA-fsEra - sTEaafTAsarAAA 9N aass - - q
4 hospital u~ar Colorado Springs.
Col. 90 al address 90 the members %
she eitv council yesterday afternoon.
ur RutisdFe. here % attend the
meefinE % the executive councii %
the society. spoke a. invitation % the
7 tuberculosis sanaforium board. who
wrrc pr~srut az vas also Dr.. C.
. q. FosIrF. Who b. virtue % his once
zs city health physician. f. a member
% ta- board
The sane prsludicss have existed
for a tgndred years saif Dr.. Rut-
ledge after ur. Joseph D. Silva had
{ explained 90 him ths principal points
/ is the obfsctiaus of the property own-
ere GEAR the site for enc proposed in
sfif1t.oa re ss she same prejudice
shat existed aEa.usf vaccination
~Yoa can buiid she sanaf0rium any
wter~ ir tke CITY With absolute safety.
On fact. BE- utfi BE- the only building In
che csfv whFTr chances % Contracting
fhe disease witi b. reduced % a mini-
rem Look AZ me- don't look as
FEouEh had it. 30 - And have
b~ea az the hospital fgT four years"
ur WutiedET e. a sfockiiy built man.
tf~ picture % health.
u~ then told % the cases ~ pncu-
r5ru.a contracted bT employees % the
institution. Hr said that there Werc
$50 r1st-rfs IH tE~ sauafoTium cnntiru-
ally end thar never once. even while
th-V suffered uargm6uia. had an en-
p'oTr contracted tuberculosis. Hs
pointed 90 th.s az Indicating that
arit ordered sauaforium ia a perfectly
safe place even t1 those uho associate
vifF its inmates
Physical Bankruptcy Cause.
rYna doar catch tuberculosis II
catches sou Or 81 per cent % the
cases Or results from physical bank
FsrFer we alt have tubTrcuiar germs
tH oar systems Bot % is our power
% resisting che disease thar prevents
as from ErfftaE Do. As soon a. the
poser u~sksus 90 ans great eEfeut
thea ar ere 0s@rcom~. oar wors - 90
bgiit 90 tsr resistance.
F15tgvinE up his assertion that a
saHaf1s arr fs an asset rather than a
liability Gov ste eity. Or RutiesiFc de-
stFt that ifs educational advantage
si6rr warrants fhs maiatsinance %
sleE al Institution.
reFrr is 90 educati1aai Institution 4
mgrf brarFE as a tuberculosis sans- .
tBrigw. b. declared. Patients ~ the .
ssraf1rigm cough ga Esuze and spit
ta sr'tum cups. which are destroyed .
tr ar fnetnerat6r. Others Nouid dis
cover the methods % preventing the
disease. e1gtd come into closer touch I.
with ere real b~a~sts % preventive
trratuerE and W6Itt learn
W nanEer - spread.
As fa~ fsr~adinE the dis~as~-thsre p
- no sgca danger, Instead. it would
pgcVeat che spread There Is more
ehsarr for people 90 catch che disease
1u tts streets % Rock Island than AZ
enc saHatoTiuul. The people who visit
tGr psf5suss arr a menace 90 them. no;
the patient Co the visitor
fir declared that she sanatoTium
aoaid enhance the value % surround
.nE property. rather than lover g.
WEue be faid that hs could no; give
any figures or hand he kn~v THAT q
vas true and that By going 60 almost
ans tuberculosis aauaforium located In
j residence locality. that figures could
be- secured % sustain the argument.
Hr said that 60 cost about 81 s. Per
5ay per patient IN the - " A. sanA-
'oFi1m. bat that this was probably %
3rr crnt Ga excess % the cost heEc.
Sic also stated that sewerage car
-.-,i iuto che river from a sanatorium
soaid not make the natural ice IN
safe for commercial purposes. lie said
that ali secr.iions from the body are
5urued IN an iueiusrator. which can
b. constructed chrapiy.
''yhsn you realize that there are
probably z.0c1 people tn Rock Island
= -o hEv~ the disease TO a more or less
dangerous extent. you can see that
.arstfFigtn is needed. not only for
.l-sssa~iv-s but for the protection OF
re psher people he ended.
fir. tos~Bh De silva then spoke and
1id the commission that az Ottawa.
Ir. vhsTw the frHf tuberculosis sana-
.oFiuEr IN the Wcst was erected years
lEo. people had built homes. among
ne best IA the city. directly across
nc street from the colony He stat
"a that this Indicated that there GER
alniy is no great danger from the
and that the people there
discovered that as they will IN time
earn in Rock Island.
DIR. De Silva Opens Talk.
Dc. De silva stated that the medi-
al commission fully anticipated such
,biseffons as are being made nov.
rhsn they returned 20 the former site.
ae declared that property values
rosiG rot be decreased but rather en-
.arcrd. and declared that accessibility
Ezs alr1os: . necessary requisite for
no institution
He read . Letter from = Rock is-
and woman who several weeks ago
Fsut 90 The Scott county sAnatortum.
davenport He declared tha; this
Eorsn ~as . taxpayer here and tina;
nc should now be eatoytng the prtvt-
sxss 90 . s4narortnn here instead OF
esax compelled 20 so 20 Davenport
TIE letter stated tha. n trim 20 the