Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-15
TusERcULosIs sANAToRIUM
institution is Urged for KiIIinsIy-Free
 Location is offered.

The committee on humane lnStlLu- tions gave public hearing in the hall of the house at Hartford Wednesday, on the establishment of state sana torium at Killingly. MT. Back said that this matter is favored by manu lecturers representing 10000 people, who are desirous of doing all that can
 Norwich institution is the nearest and
 there is delay in getting patients to
 consent ot go there. There Is but one
 institution east O the Connecticut
 river, and there is not adequate room
 there for those who apply for admis-
 sion. Such a sanatorium as advocated
 would be a benefit in showing patients
 how to care for themselves in a mark
 degree. There are now thirty patients
 who should be in a sanatorium, but
 who hesitate to go to Norwich. There
 is no land sale scheme a tract of six
 ty acres on high elevation and avail
 given the state as a site for the loca-
 ton. It Is understood MT. Back
 stands ready to give the site to the state.
 Attorney Ebert L. Darbie of Daniel
 son said there was keen need for
 such an institution. It is not a i'm
 ancial scheme to benefit anyone in
 Windham county.
 General J. w. Atwood of Plainfield,
 said his section of the state had not
 received much state benefit. There
 was need for a tuberculosis institution in Windham county and he urged the assurance that 1t would receive hearty committee to favorable action with the local support. There is merit in the project and that section of the state ought to be awarded. He believed the appropriation of from $12,0OO to $15, 900. He believed the institution was an absolute necessity. Dr. Maher, of New Haven, member
 of the commission said the cost Of the establishment would be $100,00O. Mir. Reardon said he represented a concern employing 12,000 persons and that a tuberculosis institution in that section would be of incalculable oene- pr. Maher said $9,oo0 was paid for the land for the Norwich sanatorium and the balance of $1O1,OO for con for the expense to the state to main tain a new institution. It would be more economic to enlarge tht Norwich
 plant. By choice of patient ly go to places at a distance.
 Robert W. Boys of KilG repre- senting 800 employees, sa. -.le insti- tuition would remove the menace from the afflicted who did not want to go away from their home town. J. F. Gardner, Jr., of Brooklyn, an- other manufacturer, spoke in praise of the site that the owner proposed to
 give to the state. was an ideal loca- ton.
 MT. Atwood believed that $15,000 would be a good starter, even if the committee considered it to be an en- tering wedge.
 F. P. Cunneen favored all that had been said and that a state institution in Killingly would accommodate a large section and from the viewpoint of education money appropriated by the state would be well expended. He did not believe the estimate Of cost of construction was good, and he did not consider the first cost of building would be above $15,0O0, and he believed an appropriation of $25,000 or $30,000 would cover the first cost. The gravity supply of water Is adequate for all hospital purposes.
 pr. Maher said that buildings, with land donated, for the care of 50 pa tients would cost perhaps S75.00o. A sanatorium of that sixe would be very expensive in comparison and would cost one-quarter more per patient than in larger institutions. Hospital case is never so expensive as patients | in sanatoria. He was opposed to any more tuberculosis institutions, but he tuberculosis institution for every 10000 of population.
 General Atwood said there was op- position to the establishment of the Norwich state hospital on the ground that it was not necessary, but that the enlargement of the Middlttown institu- ton was preferable. This has been proven to the contrary.
 l Mir Darbie said 1t was difficult to get the foreign-born people afflicted to Have home for tuberculosis.