Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-06-01
A WELL-MAINTAINED
SANATORIUNI

1
A well-maintained sanatorium is
not a menace to the public health,
but a safeguard, and it should be
looked upon as an educational in
stitution, deserving the respect of
every citizen. Statistics in this coun-
try and Europe prove that the NOR
tally from tuberculosis among the
inhabitants of villages or towns
where snaatoria for tuberculosis are
situated has always been consider
ably reduced after the establishment
of those institutions. The Clearly
and sanitary habits of the tubercu-
losis patients, spontaneously initial
ed by the Villagers have resulted in
diminishing tuberculosis in their
community. A well-conducted sana-
forum serves as an institution not
only to cure but also to prevent the
spread of the disease. The general
public must now be impressed with
the fact that tuberculosis, which eX.
lists to such a deplorable degree, and
is the cause of such undignified con-
duct and inhumanly toward the tu-
berculous, has little reason for it's
existence. We know that the infec-
ton comes principally from human
iputum, and that, unlike the con-
sagious diseases, tuberculosis is COM
municated only by repeated and long
continued contact. We know that
the honest conscientious patient, TAX,
ing care of his expectoration, is not
q source of infection nor a menace to
public health, but is as safe to asso-
3iate. with as anyone else. Those who
oppose the establishment of sanatoria
in their vicinity must be convinced
OF their error; any patient who has
been in sanatorium even few
months must of necessity, on account
of the training he has received, be-
come hygienic factor in the com
munity to which he may return.
In no well-conducted sanatorium
in this country has there been an au-
thentic instance of the infection of
healthy employee which can be
traced to contact with the sick of
the institution, Notwithstanding the
necessarily intimate relations fire.
quently involved. Our opinion with
respect to the far-reaching Influence
of the sanatorium education. and
its paramount importance in this
'Paioht against luD6TCulOSlS, is
based first upon a belief that one in
dividual. thoroughly taught and
drilled through weeks and months of
unremitting instruction in the school
OF experience, ecomes a more effec-
tive influence and commands a wider
clientele than a hundred half-in-
structed and comparatively inexperi-
enced patients who receive their in
struction didactically. And, after all
1t is to the patient that we must nj
lmately look for the most effective
work IN this crusade against mans
greatest foe.
inc advantages, then, of sanatori-
UNI treatment may be summed I'D as
IolloWs: First, the patient is removed
from the danger of injecting his
nome and friends; second, he escapes
the cares and responsibilities of home
NE, thus getting needed rest: third
ne is taught and compelled to oh
serve those precautions that are
necessary for his well-being. and is
Drought by an actual demonstration
to realize the value of correct living
IN contrast to the methods he had
previously followed; he is watched
over by trained nurses and physi-
clans who are devoting their lives
% this line of work; and if in an
carly sage, he is almost sure to he
greatly benefited physically and
mentally,