The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-11-11

With the United States three MIL
lion homes behind in building, and
many public buildings that will be
built as soon as conditions begin to
improve. will cause the rapid rise
in materials again, so that the spring
of 1921 will find the prices OF building
materials cheaper than it will be
again for three years.
Our Sanatorium, at the present
time, has 33 patients. 1t has a
capacity for twenty-eight. Ii fill
ed to it's capacity of twenty-eight,
there is no assembly room for recrea-
tional purposes, and fills it as full
as it ought to be, considering the well
fare of the patients.
We have not sent for any of the
ITubercular patients that are being
kept in the other sanatoriums of the
state. So we lack that many of
having room we should have.
With our sanatoruim filed to it's
capacity, we would need almost as
much help as we would if we had
sixty patients. At our expense with
thirty patients, runs it abuot the
rate of $17.00 week for each patient
lIIf we had room for sixty patients,
1--we could reduce the per capita ex-
Ipense to at least $14.00 or $500 a
week. With the state paying us
1890. a week for our county patients,
that would reduce our expense very
Imuch.
If we could accommodate 80 pa
itients so they were all Under one
roof, we could be getting $500 a
week for each county patient, and
lS15.00 a week for our pay patients.
| Our Sanatorium has been running
little more than three months and
lit is full to more than it's capacity.
The three counties have nineteen pa
tients in the other sanatoriums. We
have a great many patients in the
| three counties that will be making
applications to come in. There are
a great many ex-service men in the
three counties that ought to be housed
land if they could be accommodated
near their home they would be glad
to come to our sanatorium. They
are paying from $40 to s25 a week
for the care of these ex-service men.
If we fulfill the purpose we started
out to attain, we will need very
much more room. have been in
vestigating the expense of more room
that could be secured cheaply and
afford us a good service as we have
in the Sanatorium and be connected
under the roof so that it would take
but one or two more nurses to take
care of forty more patients. have
secured the figures on a two story
cottage that would furnish a recrea-
t ton room and other conveniences and
take care of twenty-four patients.
To make the administrative part of
this cottage of low cost, it would
be necessary to have it connected
with the Sanatorium by means of a
connecting link, and we could furnish
connecting link IL feet wide, so
feet long, and three stories high.
| , The upper two stories of the con-
meeting link could be used for porch
patients so that it would hold ten pa
tients and also be "a passage way
! from the Sanatorium proper to the
cottage. The basement of this fire.
proof connecting link could be used,
20 feet of it for produce cellar
which is very much needed, 20 feet
for refrigerating room and 20 feet
as a space for the refrigerating au-
tomato engine. These two buildings
would. give us room for forty-four
patients and relieve the crowded con-
dition in the Sanatorium and give us
two more rooms that could be used
for recreation purposes of which we
are very much in need as we must
nave a common room where the pa
tents may meet for entertainment and
vocational training. At the present
time in the Sanatorium, with this
crowed condition., we have no such
space. Accommodation given by
this extra room would be fully as
comfortable and give US as good salts
faction as any room in the Sanator-
ium.
have secured bids on thes plans
and specifications from the contrac-
tors that put up our Sanatorium and
they come within $4,000.
Your truly,