Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-07-06
208 Acres in Raritan Township
Known Here as Pratt Prop
erty, to be Purchased.
is AN IDEAL LOCATION
Deal VIII be Closed Soon for
Sanatorium for Tubercu-
Iosis Patients.
By Special Correspondent.

By Special Correspondent.
New Brunswick, July 8.-The Board
OF Freeholders yesterday passed q
resolution, authorizing the purchase
Of tract of land for the establish
.ment of @ county tuberculosis sanitar-
ium. The land is situated near Me-
tlcfen. w. B Pratt, of this city is
One of .bv owners. Final details oil
purchase have yet to be worked out,
hut the land will be purchased, and
the work of establishing the sanitar-
ium will start as soon as practicable.
The site is In Raritan township, one
mile east of the Pennsylvania Railroad
station at Metuchen, on the line of the
Pennsylvania road and the fast line
trolley. within five minutes walk of the
Amboy yMetuchen trolley line, and
can be reached for not more than a
twenty cent trolley fare, from any
point in the county.
The plot consists of 20S acres of
land, which is said to be at the high
est point on the Pennsylvania rail-
road between New York and Phila-
delphia. 1t is the land once offered
to the water department of Perth
Amboy for q reservoir site, and Is
now the site of a Perth Amboy Y. M.
g. A. camp. The land is partially
titled at present, and the remainder
In good condition for being farmed.
There is an unlimited supply Of
spring water from the land, enough,
It Is said, to supply $4,000 people
daily
On the land at present are num-
Der of buildings suitable for storage
buildings, and some which could be
used temporarily as sanitarium quar-
ters. Plaps for other administration
and hospftV buildings will probably
be worked out Immediately.
The freeholders were delighted
I,,15 E1sn tha g fad 81 and the 2nRoSt2Dtty 70
The parties from whom it will be
purchased are William b. Pratt, of
Perth Amboy; Perrine g. Buokalew
and Joseph M. Perrine, of James
burg, composing the, West Perth
Realty Company. Director Gebhardt
and the clerk Of the board were in
structed to pay ten per cent. of the
deposit figure, and to pay the balance
on the execution Of the deed for the
property.
Urgent Need for County Hospital
That the hospital Is needed and
needed badly for the county has been
Impressed upon the freeholders fire.
Quently by the Middlesex County
nti-Tuberculosis Society and allied
organizations. The officials of the
White Haven, Pa, sanitarium, to
which patients have been sent by the
county, also desired that the number
of patients from the county be kept
as small as possible owing to crowd
ed conditions at that place.
A letter from the superintendent of
the White Haven sanitarium was re-
ceived yesterday by the board which
told of the crowded conditions there
and asked that notification for the
entrance of patients be sent to the
home quarters of the sanitarium at
Philadelphia, and that all patients
leaving the sanitarium be compelled
to notify the authorities week in
advance of their intention of leaving.
The number of Middlesex county
patients at White Haven and at the
Bonnie Burn sanitarium at Scotch
Plains, Union county, averages seven
ty in number, and the cost of the
county for their care and treatment is
about $4,000 month, or $4,000 a
year. This is In addition to the pat
tents from the county who are under
treatment at the Glen Gardner state
sanitarium.
The Middlesex County Anti-Tuber-
culosis Society has been endeavoring
for several months 10 have the board
purchase site and erect a hospital.
The site frs. rtrclafed by the board
about two years ago was abandoned,
owing to objections from the author
tiles of the city claiming that the wat
er supply of the city was endangered
by the hospital.
Miss Emily Halsey Suydam, field
secretary for the New Jersey society,
and executive secretary for the Mid
dlesex county society, has been an
indefatigable worker for the estab-
lishment of the hospital, as have other
officers and members Of the organiza-
ton who have appeared before the
freeholders several times to urge the
establishment of the sanitarium.
Miss Suydam expressed great de-
light over the action of the board at
q recent meeting when they decided to
purchase some Land, as she said that
the establishment OF a hospital in
the county would be the means of saw
Ing many lives, and would make the
care and supervision of the patients SO
much easier than 1t is at the more dis
tant places.