Evening star., 1923-02-04

its existing facilities. This hospital
now has bed capacity of 239.
On May IL, 1922, funds were made
available by Congress. amounting to
$17,000,000, under what is known as
the second Langley bill, for the con-
struction of additional government
hospitals by the United States Vet
Grams Bureau.
Part of these funds have been used
pital already in existence at Mem
phis, Tenn. This hospital has bed
capacity of 165. The medical school
of the University of Tennessee is To-
Gated in Memphis.
Contracts have been awarded under
the second Langley bill for the con-
struction of a 436-bed neuro-psychi-
atric hospital at Northampton Mass
This hospital is to be located on a
free grant of land excellently suited
TO hospital use and within q short
distance of satisfactory consultants.
One of the state sanitoriums of Mas
sachusetts is located in the nefghbor-
hood.
Within the last week contracts were
let for the construction of a 5O0-bed
tuberculosis hospital at Tupper Lake,
\. Y. This hospital will be located
within twenty-fve miles of the famous
Saranac Lake tuberculosis region and
the best of consultants will be near at
hand.
To Purchase Sites.
AT Knoxville. Iowa, which is thirty
miles out of Des Moines. funds from
the second Langley bill have been used
to purchase and develop an existing hos-
pital site. When improvements have
been completed facilities will be avail
able to handle 400 neuro- -psychiatric
cases. The present capacity is 172.
/. Contracts for the construction of a
aft-tr hot faJ Of
Chillicothe. Ohio, have been let and the
work started This hospital is located
on government property and can be
reached by consulting specialists from
the cities OF Columbus and Cincinnati.
Ohio.
Plans have been drawn and bids, are
now being advertised for the erection of
a o00-bed ro-psychiatric hospital at
Camp Custer. Mich. This hospital will
be located on a military reservation and
is i'll the neighborhood of the Battle
Creek Sanatorium and the state insane
asylum at Kalamazoo.
Plans have also been drawn and bids
advertised for the construction of a 250-
bed neuro-psychiatric hospital at St
Cloud, Minn. This hospital will be To-
Gated on free grant Of land on the
best available site within reach of Min
neapolis and ST. Paul.
At Livermore. Calf. 406-bed tu-
berculosis hospital will be constructed
hospital will be within reach of San
Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berlie-
ley, Calf. The Alameda county sana-
torium is located only one-half mile
away.
A 250-bed neuro- -psychiatric hospital
Will be constructed under the second
Langley bill at American Lake. Wash
on government-owned land. The site
is within ten miles of Takoma, Wash,
and fifty miles of Seattle. 1t adtoins
the Washington state asylum, Stella
COON, Wash.
Funds from the second Langley bill
have also been used to purchase the
already existing hospital site at Gulf
port, Miss. improvements to be made
at this hospital will provide permanent
facilities for $50 neuro-psychiatri
patients II now has a capacity of 209
The construction of the tubercu-
losis hospital at Aspinwall, Pa. will
also be provided by funds from the
second Langley bill. The site was
purchased under the first Langley
bill. The hospital will be within easy
reach OF Pittsburgh.
Let me briefly describe the hospital