Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-28
PLAGUE CLINIC
ASKS EXTENSIVE
E WFACILITIES
Five Recommendations for
City War on tuberculosis
Made in Report.
CONSIDERED

Five recommendations for additional
lac1ities for the treatment Of tubercu-
tOBis in Indianapolis were made in the
annual report Of the Indianapolis free
tuberculosis clinic, made to the city
board of health today by Miss Marion
d. Bell, nurse In charge of the clinic.
Thousands Of cases In the homes and
in the clinics had been examined by
Miss Bill, who summed up the city's
needs as follows:
/. A preyentorium or eonValescent
hospital for women and children.
2. Fresh air schools or open win
rooms in every district of the
city where anaemlc or pre-tubercuIO-
3 lOus children may have the benefit of
curative open-air treatment.
3. Additional nurses so they can
visit and keep under supervision all
cases reported to the board of health,
together with branch clinics in the
outlying districts, particularly in the
southwest part of the city and
Brightwood, where many negroes
live.
4. Establishment of a night clinic,
two nights weekly at first, to provide
proper care for worker who can not
attend The morning clinics.
B. Provision of more hospital beds
"a U EuUCECuAhESS CSDStiSAlJ IOE COEOEcu
persons.
Y Miss Bell points out that there are many
women in industry suffering from over
work aud prfvations who could be
spared long weeks of illness if given In
;titutionaI care. The effects of a pre-
Fentorium on the child life of the COM
nunity would be enormous, she declares.
DISEASE EXTENSIVE
COLORED HOMES.
There are now available in Marion
bounty twenty-five beds for advanced tu-
bereular white persons and seven for col
pred victims. The percentage of colored
homes in which there is tuberculosis is
extremely high, she says.
Thirty-nine per cent of all cases dag
losed during the year RESULTED from
post flu" conditions, according to the
report.
New cases totaIed 722 and 2,19S cases
we're visited.
FOrty-nine and one-half per cent of
he cases diagnosed were traceabIe to
contact with other tubercuIar persons,
he report says. Forty per cent of the
.ases were males, 31.3 per cent were mar
s1ed, 45 per cent were undr Is years old,
S2er cent were foreigners and 24.5
cent were colored.
a AAAASy PC ECEI OI-tHG pdlleutS WSI6
ent to the Flower Mission for treatment.
b6 were sent to. Sunnyside and two were
sent to the county poor farm.
"Ninety-fve per cent of the incipient
,ases have improved and 3 per cent have
been lost trace Of" says the report.
Fifty per eel of the moderately ad-
ranced have improved, 10 per cent unim-
proved, 8 per cent have died and Z per
tent have been lost trace of. Sixty-segen
per cent Of the far advanced acses have
tied, 9 per cent improved, q per cent
~lnimproved and 10 per cent lost trace of.
During the year nineteen soldiers and
sailors were examined. Several have been
$ent to government sanatOriums through
he aid of the Red Cross Home Service
department,
posi- FLU CASES
EASILY HANDLED.
"Of the many post flu cases attend
ng the clinic, the greater number were
ound nontuberculous, but the post
ymptoms were so similar to incipient
tuberculosis that they were advised to
Sc the same hygienic treatment and
pom made rapid recovery.
is a marked decrease in the
5er OF cOlOred patients attending the
mic, due to the fact that a branch
llnic was established last year at the
Tanner house for colored people only.
he majority of cases were laborers,
ousewives, cooks n walters. A few
ere office workers and mechanics. On
une 10, 1919, DR.. Morgan assigned three
ehool nurses 1.-TWO white and one col
red) to help with the district visiting.
lowing to the increased number Of
Ills, the Marion County tuberculosis
ssociation placed another nurse at the
linic city d~ispensary Nov. l."