The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-24
over $500 Posts Through United
states Cooperate With public
Health Bodies in Locating
Sanitoriums.
HELP MEN TO GET WELL
caoperation is Asked in Order That
Ex-service Men Disabled by This
Disease Can Re-
cover.


,tha country now numbering more
,han 1900, are cooperating with the
llnited States public heath service
III efforts TO locate sanatorium accom-
medations for the thousands Of ex-
'seryice men who have returned from
me war afflicted with tuberculosis.
Acting on the suggestion of Surgeon
General Blue, American Legion
posts are endeavoring to locate suit
able sanatoriums where war risk
patients can be accommodated at
rates not to exceed $500 per day, 1t
being the wish Of the public health
service to care for tubercular patients
in sanatoriuIns near their own homes
where the patients SO desire.
THE old idea that tuberculosis
patients must seek high altitude
and dry climate has been found to
be wrong" said DR.. Rupert Blue. 1T
is not generally necessary or even
desirable to make radical removal.
IA patient with far advanced or rapid
w progressing disease should never
be sent to a distant place. 1t has
been an axiom for many years that
a consumptive improved faster, or
got worse faster as the case might
be, in the arid southwest. Expert
care, the solace OF friends and rela-
.tves, familiar surroundings and
contented spirit are Of greater i'm
portance than climate.
Need Specialized Hospitals.
Patients with complications such
as empyema or tuberculosis of the
larynx, bones or joints are more in
need of highly specialized hospital
treatment than or climatic change.
Inc reasons often urged for immedi-
ate transfer are often the very
reasons why a transfer should not be
made. For suitably selected patients
the public health service will en-
aeavor to provide sanatOriums in
selected climates. Such selections
are best made after preliminary OBJ
servation of several months under
ordinary sanatorium conditions.
The United States public health
service desires to provide treatment
tn suitable local sanatoriums for such
war risk patients as prefer to remain
near their own homes. Patients re-
quiring high specialized treatment,
such as only large and resourceful
A1AotiSutioAS Soh plOS4uCy Will usually
be advised to enter public health
Service sanatorium. Those sufficient
ly recovered to take up vocational
training will also be advised to enter
those large sanatoriums where the
federal board for vocational educa-
ton is expected to provide the de-
sired facilities. 1t is not expected
that vocational training will be made
available in the many small sana-
forums widely scattered throughout
the country.
The public health service. through
its district supervisors. will investi-
gate all sanatoriums in which beds
are offered, at rates not exceeding
the maximum prescribed $500 day,
and will utilize such as are found to
meet required standards. Infornia-
uon concerning institutions with
available beds should be commune
Gated direct to the supervisor of that
district. Patients should make their
application for treatment in the usual
way to the nearest representative Of
.he public health service. This medi.
cal officer will decide whether sana-
forum treatment is necessary and
VIII furnish the necessary advice and
authority concerning placement"