The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-11
NEED MORE ROOM
100000 VIII Be Asked for Tu-
bercular Sanitarium.
DIR. Kinney Says Facilities Are
WOefully Inadequate.
CAN'T ACCOMPLISH MUCH
100 Persons All Institution Can
Care for Now.
This Is Only 2-5 of l Per Cent
of Total Cases.
CAN'T ACCOMPLISH MUCH

An appropriation of 100000 for the
state tubercuIar sanitarium at Norton
will be urged before the legislature by
DIR. Q. S. Kinney, superintendent Doc
tor Kinney is in Topeka today to ad-
dress the inmates of the city tuber-
cular sanitarium.
Such an appropriation would build,
equip and operate for two years
Sanitarium with six buildings with II
total capacity for 16O patients. The
present capacity of the only state
tubercular sanitarium in Kansas -
thirty-five patients. In other words the
state is caring for two-fifths of L per
cent of the persons afflicted with
tuberculosis.
Die While Waiting.
-Four hundred patients have ap-
piled for entrance to the sanitar1um
said Doctor Kinney. I'VE have been
able to care for only seventy-eight-
Many die while they are waiting their
turn to take treatment"
In addition to the six buildings
erected on the pavilion plan, an ad
ministration building could be erected
out of the appropriation. Doctor Kin.
ney quoted statistics showing the large
number of insane. epileptics and otn-
ers cared for by the state which is
very large in comparison to the num-
Der of tuberculars cared for.
Doctor Kinney's hobby, one which
he has Travelled all over the state to
disclose, is a county hospital in all
large counties for the care of tubercu-
lar patients beyond all hope of recov-
cry A large state sanitarium would
be erected for the care instruction and
cure of incipient cases. A special
building would be erected for the bad
cases discovered in counties too small
to maintain county tubercular farm.
Topeka Has Plan.
The city of Topeka was the first city
in the state to adopt this plan. Sedg-
wick county has recently transformed
a part of its poor farm into tuber-
cular sanitarium and Sumner county
is working out a similar plan.
Cooperation of health officers is
essential in the naturalization of these
plans, Doctor Kinney declares, and he
can not say too much for the work of
DIR. T. H. Jameson, health officer of
and night in the interests of public
health. He is a cripple and has to be
lifted into an automobile to make in
spection trips of the county schools.
Yet, he has accomplished more than a
majority of health officers in Kansas.
"Just think of the inroads. tuber-
! culosis is making in this country
said Doctor Kinney. There are $780,
| 900 deaths yearly in the United States,
| enough to wipe out two counties the
, size of Shawnee county. The death
rate in Kansas alone would wipe a
town larger than Rossville off the
map"
Calves Better Protected.
| Doctor Kinney also would like to see
| the legislature give health officers
more power in the disposition of tuber-
culars.
IF a COW is afflicted you can sepa-
rate it from the calf said Doctor
Kinney. But if a mother is tubercu-
! lar a physician can do nothing but
make recommendations
Doctor Kinney spent two hours al
the city hall this morning talking
health conditions with DR.. H L. Clark
| city musician