Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-21
77,600 GIVEN TO
SANATOR|UM;; WORK
TO START AT ONCE
COUNTY BOARD THIS AFTER
NOON APPRoPRIATES LARGE
SUM WITH WHICH TO CON.
STRUCT LA SALE COUNTY
INSTITUTION.

By unanimous vote the board this
afternoon votel $4,000 with which to
buy site and build the county san.
atorum. The fund will be raised by
the two mill tax allowed by law. Sites
Will be selected Immediately and plans
drawn for the new institution. Every
member of the board voted for the
proposition, excepting Callaghan and
Hall being the only absentees.
During the later portion of the ses.
sion the board fixed the tax levy at
$461.5O270 with which to run the
county and to pay for the good roads,
sanatorium and detention home. The
rate was fixed at 81 .o5 for the year on
every hundreds dollars of assessable
valuation.
Before adjourning the solons ap-
propriated $40 a month increase for
cooks at the county farm and deten.
ton home
MoVning ocSS'on.
La Sale countys tuberculosis san
atorium, which, while at the present
standing as more or less of mythica
| proposition, bids fair, as the result
| of constant agitation, to blossom into
reality as the result of arguments
made this morning to the Board OF
Supervisors by W. !. Thurber. execu
tive secretary Of the Illinois Tubercu
losis Association and Rev Dean Quinn
pastor of St COLUMBIA church
Leastwise the sanat0riums chances
for developing into something more
than a topic of discussion, was great
ly enhanced by the arguments set be
fore the solons by the two speakers
For almost year the board has given
its sanatorium commission little in
the way Of announcement as to when
appropriations would be made or how
soon the institution would develop in
of an Overwhelming large vote given
in its favor at the general election in
November, 1916,
In his address to the supervisors
Mr. Thurber. whose home is in Chi
cago, made a general survey of condi
tions in Illinois as the state assoca
tion has found them He referred tc
the fastly growing epidemic Of tuber
culosis in France and England, par
tcuarly among the soldiers.
I'm Berlin" Mr.. Thurber said, "tht
number of cases since the war have
increased tifty-two per cent. Ii
| France there are 10000 cases of tn
berculoss among soldiers alone, while
among the civilian population there
are 100000 more cases. In England
conditions are just the same and thu
same is true of our United States. II
England as soon as soldier show
evidence of tuberculosis he is shipped
to his home community and there es
tablished in a sanatorium until he be
comes cured. The British govern
ment has found that its boys get vel
quicker among their homefolks an,
have provided every means of speed
ing their recovery
LAS experiences are being met Il
Europe you can rest assured they vii
be met here" he added
Last fall seven counties, includin
La Sale, voted for sanatoriums. Me
from these counties will soon be goin
to the front and it is possible our go'
; ernment will send them to their HON
communities to recuperate When thi
; does happen La Sale county want
, to be ready Many men will have Il
> cipient forms of tuberculosis whe
they leave for the firing line to fac
. the hardships of trench life. The
+ cases will develope as their soldierin
| become severe and then 1t viii r
> main that the government Is forced
, send them home.
. Mr. Thurber promises that the C.
| operation of the state board and I
4 the tuberculosis association would !
K freely given in establish ne the sa
J. atorium in La Sale county.
p Dean Quinn.