The New York herald., 1922-04-12
NEW HOSPITAL
FOR FOX HILLS VETS
Washington Promises to Have
Tt Ready for Patients Be-
fore Next Winter.
ON ESTATE AT KENsICO
Bronx Institution Is to Be
Dedicated Soon-Delay
May Be Probed.

Special Dsspntcb to THE NEW YoRx HERALD
WASHINGTON, April 11.--After delay
Of thirteen months, to whicn is due all
the trouble over the closing If Fox Hills
Hospital and the transfer OF ailing vet
Grams to the city hospital at Sea View.
Staten Island, next door to the poor
farm, a site for a Government hospital,
Just outside the city Of New York, for
the treatment f tubercular veterans,
has been selected.
That is, the site and plans have been
approved by the Treasury Department.
the White committee. the National
tuberculosis Association, and arrange
nents for taking over the property are
now being made.
The property, THE NEW YORK HERALD
vas informed tonight is the estate
owned by Mrs. A. w. Church in Port
Chester, n. Y. 1t is several miles from
Port Chester and about mile and a
half from the Kensico reservoir. There
are about 100 acres OF rolling country
and woodland. The main building and
smaller building near the gate are OF
stone.
Meanwhile the New York delegation
in Congress is planning to demand an
investigation OF the long delay, the
appropriation of more than S1,0OO,00o
for the hospital having been made In
March, 1921. The New Yorkers charge
che White committee, which Is an ad-
visory committee of the Treasury De-
partment on disqualification. has per-
mitted the delay while veterans suffered
from lack Of treatment The committee
is accused of negligence and of having
sdilly dalied" while veterans were
dying for lack of hospital facilities"
Wants Congress to Act.
Representative Hamilton Fish, who
has inspected the New York hospitals
said tonight:
Congress should take some action IN
this matter and l shall urge that 1t be
done. Had the committee acted promptly
Il fine hospital could have been COM
pleted by now"
The women, who, under the leadership
of Mrs. Charles III. Patterson, have been
protesting against the transfer of Gov
ernment patients to Sea View, are not
satisfied with the site that has been
chosen for the permanent hospital. They
say the men properly demand that they
be sent to the mountains and that moth
ing short of hospital in the Adiron-
dacks or at some other mountain place
will be acceptable The fact that the
transfers from Fox Hills to Sea View
are nearly completed has not discouraged
Mrs. Patterson. She said tonight: THE
fight Is just begun"
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
Clifford said that the construction work
would start within a few days after
purchase OF the land was completed and
and that the hospital would be finished
six or eight months after breaking
ground. This would permit the ex-
service men to be transferred to the new
hospital before next winter. 1t Is pur-
posed TO make this the best equipped
hospital In the United States for the
treatment Of tubercular patients.
Within few days there will be dedi-
Gated also for the care Of veterans the
Bronx General Hospital in New York,
which is officially known as United
States Veterans Hospital No. SO. This
IS a plant which was purchased ready
built at cost of s2,000,000 and re-
modelled by the Government at an added
expense of several hundred thousand
dollars.