The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-15
City Pest House
Into TubercuIar Sanitarium.
One Hundred and Fifty Attend
ed Last Nights Banquet.
DR.. HOGEBOOM is CHAIRMAN
Committee Out to Work Up
Sentiment in Topeka.
Movement to Commercial Club
and Medical Society.

Initial stepps were taken at the
nest house banquet last night to-
ward converting the city pest house
east of town into a tubercular san
itarium. One hundred and fifty peo-
pie attended the banquet given by
Commissioner ". L Porter and the
Public Health Nursing association
The sentiment for a tubercular san
itarium was organized and today the
wheels will be started moving
DR. H B. HOgeboom was named as
Chairman of the committee to be ap-
pointed to work out a plan and secure
support for it among the city and
county commissioners. The other
members of the committee will be Sc
lected by DR.. Hogeboom and by Dr. T.
C Biddle. president of the Shawnee
Medical society. They will take the
matter up with the Commercial club,
with the medical society and other or
CARNATIONS
As a preliminary to the business
meeting a dinner was served at the
detention hospital 1t was served in
the big north ward by the nurses of
the Topeka Public Health Nursing
association. There were sandwiches.
pickles coffee, ice cream. cake, milk
and buttermilk. Six dairymen-R. C.
Obrecht. F B. Fritts. Scott Bos.. w
/ H. Maxwell, the Lilac dairy and the
Pure Milk company, furnished the
milk and cream used. Some of the
supplies were furnished by Horace L.
Hall and Mrs Charles B. Thomas
Many of the visitors were taken to the
detention hospital in a big auto-bus
donated by the West Auto company.
Following the luncheon DIR. Biddle
set forth the purpose of the gathering
It was to show people Of Topeka what
the city has at the detention hospital
and to get the opinions of those in
. hi
verting the hospital into tubercular
/ sanitarium-
Little Use for It
The building was constructed five
years ago for the use of patients suf-
{ fering with contagious diseases. Small
pox was really responsible for the
/ building It was pointed out last
night that smallpox does not require
the use of the building for one-sixth
/ of the year and that during the re-
mainder of the time the $500 in
vestment is standing idle.
DR.. C S. kenney. superintendent of
the state tubercular sanitarium at
[ Norton. is enthusiastically in favor of
a city sanitarium and expressed the
opinion that the detention hospital
and its site are ideal for that purpose.
Topeka has an opportunity. he
said Ito place itself on the map as
the first city in Kansas to establish
a city tuberculosis hospital where the
1 victims of the white plague can secure
/ treatment and the proper care. Con-
sumptIveS are a menace to others IN
/ less they are taught how to care for
/ themselves"
The tubercular sanitsrium idea be-
/ longs to Commissi oner W. L. Porter
and he received full credit for it last
night. Speaker after speaker referred
/ to that and other public improvements
/ brought about through his depart
ment including real milk inspection
/ DR.. S. J. Crumbine was one of the
! speakers who gave credit to Mr..
/ Porter. During his talk he stated that
I seventeen new cases of tuberculosis
have been reported from Topeka since