The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-08-23
HOSPITAL PROGRAM
War VETERANS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The in
crease in hospital facilities for ex-
service men provided for under the
Langley bill is being rapidly pushede
by the U. S. Veterans Bureau.
Director Forbes, who has just fin
ished a tour of inspection in which he
personally visited many proposed hos
pital sites, the completion
of an extensive building program.
The new neuro-phychiatric hospital
to be in Northampton, Mass, will be
started Immediately. Bids are all in
and the contract has been made,
states Colonel Forbes.
Plans are being pushed for the
500-bed neurD-psychic hospital to be
situated at C~hillicothe, Ohio. Bids
will be in by the first Of September,
and army engineers will by that time
have completed the survey now under
way.
The Upper Lake project, which
supplants the one formerly planned
for Liberty, n. Y, is being surveyede
by an engineering corps at the pres
ent time. 1t is announced that Tup-
per Lake, which is in northern New
York, offers innumerable advantages
as a site for a tuberculosis hospital:
At the same time, plans for the Cheel-
sea, New York, 5000-bbed tubercu-
losis hospital, which will be construct
ed jointly by the treasury department
and the Veterans Bureau, are being
revised and standardized to suit the
topography of the ground. Every
thing will be in readiness for the be-
ginning of operations within 80 days.
Selection of a site in District 10 is
the latest to be made. st. Cloud,
Mimi, will be the location and a
large neuro-psychiatric hospital will
be built. No decision has been
reached in regard to the proposed site
in District 6. This matter is now in
the hands of the president, but it is
expected to bbe cleared up before
the end of the month. The hospital
planned for the site selected in this
area will contain 1000 beds.
At Knoxville, Iowa, a survey is
now being made to enable the bureau
= to draw plans and specifications fol
the erection Of a mental hospital
Bids have been called for, and al
award is expected to be announced
by October /.
Land at Gulfport, Miss, for the
construction of a neurotpsychiatrit
4 hospital by the bureau is being sur
veyed at the present time and the an
nouncement Of the actual oonsumma
3 ton of the transaction will be made
in a few days. Purchase of the Meth
odist Hospital at Memphis, Tenn.
has been made by the bureau, and tn,
deed turned over to the United States
Director Forbes visited the CAM
Lewis, Wash, site. He found it ad
equate in every respect, and furthe
stated that complete plans and spec
ifications for the erection of a neurO
- psychiatric hospital there will b
ready on or about October L.. H
also inspected the ground at Liver
more, Calf, and stated that bids TO
this project would bbe in by Octo
Der 1.
Under the provisions of the secon
Langley bill, recently passed by Con
gress, the director of the U. S. We
= Grams Bureau is empowered to pre-
vide additional hospital and Out-pa
tient dispensary facilities for pei
sons who served in the world war an
are patients of the U. S. Veterans
Rureau. This bill carried with it a
appropriation of $12, 00C 900 and pei
mitted the director to incur furthe
obligations, subject to the approve
of the president of thee Unite
States, for the purpose of hospit;
construction, not To exceed In the
aggregate S., OOO, 600.
During the past month, Colon
Forbes has been busy going over tn
selected sites in person, arrangin
: to obtain clear titles to propert,
discussing plans and specification
with army engineers and arrangin
last minute details regarding col
struction. 1t has been a painstakln
task, in which the committee on ho'
p~italization has co-operated with tt
director. Results reno being r.
allied.
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