Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-09-28

Recently the following letter was
sent 70 Senator John Walter Smith
from one OF the most eminent and
public spirited members Of the Med
ical profession:
Baltimore, Nd. Aug. IL, 1920.
''Senator John Walter Smith,
United States Senate,
Committee on the District OF
Columhia,
Washington, d. c.
"My Dear Senator:
Il can most enthusiastically testify
TO the wonderful help that you have
been to the medical profession for
many years in some of the greatest
public movements which YOU have un-
dertaken in this State and in the
whole United States. You have always
been the one man in the United
States Senate to whom we could so
with a feeling of certainty that you
would interest yourself in the cause
for which we spoke. Your selfsacri-
1cing work for the tuberculous OF
Maryland is monument to your pub
lie spirit and fneness.
with kindest regards and assur.
ances OF my best wishes, am,
very sincerely yours,
"(Signed) HUGH H. YOUNG"
There are many reasons why SEN
ator Smith well merits this splendid
tribute.
Having a family history of consurnp-
ton, that most terrible OF the min
listers of Death, Senator Smith deter
mined to do what he could to save
others from the bitter sorrow that he
had endured. Having conferred with
members OF the Medical profession
Senator Smith concluded that much
might be done to cure patients suffer
ing with this disease by proper treat
ment, and to prevent in great meas
ure its spread by taking patients away
from home while rnder treatment
Senator Saith. therefore, at the
session OF the Legislature in 1906,
prepared bill providing for State
tuberculosis Sanatorium, carrying an
appropriation OF Sl65,000. A splendid
site on the crest OF the Blue Ridge
Mountains in Frederick county was
procured, suitable buildings erect
ed and corps Of physicians and
nurses engaged who have made this
the model institution Of the kind in
the United States It has about 450
patients at q time. According to the
report OF DR.. Victor F. Cullen, the
Superintendent, for the years 1918 and
1919, LAG patients were admitted, and
a like number discharged, many OF
them restored to health and many
more improved and that many homes
relieved of the imminent danger OF
contagion and the spread of the dis
ease. In the dozen years that this
great institution has been in opera.
ton, thousands of patients, many OF
them little children, have been treat
ed, many restored to their homes
cured or the disease arrested; and
the State has an investment Of about
$750,000 there Mothers have re
eeived their children, rescued from
death, children have had mothers and
fathers restored to them, and thou
sands have had occasion to thank Sen
ator Smith as their benefacter. Such
work as this should appeal especial
~ to the women Of Maryland. Sen
atcr Smith is still President Of this
Sanatorium, and his interest in it ID
undated. At each Session OF the
Legislature he is on hand to urge the
appropriation for proper support.
Does not man who has done all
this disinterested benefaction in his
fellow citizens deserve their support
Is 1t not well for the State that this
faithful public servant should be re-
tanned in. the public service?