Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
ASK TUBERCULOSIS
RELIEF FOR C|TY'S
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Directors of Association Urge
Speedy Construction of
District Sanatorium.
SPECIAL SCHOOL FILLED
TO CAPACITY, is REPORT
SO Infected Pupils Still in Public
Institutions; W. B.
Patterson Says.

Aroused by statements from public
school officlals-showing that the two
buildings housing tubercular pupils are
damned to capacity. enc Of them having
waiting list-the board Of directors Of
the Washington tuberculosis Associa-
ton yesterday appointed special COM
mittee to urge the District Commission
ers to take speedy action toward cen
struction of the Children's tuberculosis
Sanatoriunl.
The association pointed out the site
for the institution already had been
purchased and funds are now available
for its construction. The committee
named to present the organizations ap-
peal to the Commissioners Is composed
of DR.. George M. Kober, president; DR..
Frank w. Ballou. superintendent of
schools; DR.. F. c. Smith. assistant sur
geon general of the United States Pub
lie Health Service, and Mrs. Ernest r.
Grant, vice president of the aSsocia-
ton and chairman of the Children'S
Sanatorium Committee.
Filled to Capacity.
Walter B. Patterson, director of Spe-
eial schools, told the association the
school Tor white children diagnosed as
tubercular is filled to its utmost ca
pacity, with IS pupils in daily attend
48 other white children who have been
diagnosed as having juvenile tubercu-
losis, SO of whom are still attending the
public schools, the remaining IL being
of pre-school age.
Garnet G. Wilkinson, assistant super
intendent in charge of colored schools,
reported there are II colored children
filling the Toner School for the Tuber-
cular, and that there are Al others on
the waiting list, with no place to 60.
This situation was characterized as
"deplorable" by DR.. William H. Hough,
president of the District Medical So
ciety. He said it warranted all pos
sible speed in the planning and con-
struction of the new sanatoriuEn for
tubercular children, so "all of these
unfortunate children, for their own
sake as well as for the protection Of
the community, may be promptly cared
for
For even the health schools, crowded
IS they are with quota Of 162 boys
and girls needing special care" he de-
clsred. ARE operated on a schedule Of
only 5 hours a day, when what they
should have is continuous day and
night supervision, such as only the
proposed sanatorium can provide"
DR.. Fowler Not Alarmed.
DR.. william c. Fowler, District health
oficer, did not view with alarm the
conditions pictured by Mr.. Patterson
OF SO children having juvenile tuber-
culosis attending the regular schools.
The ordinary type Of Juvenile tuber-
eulosis, DR.. Fowler explained, Is not
regarded as communicable. The law
provides, he said, that children suffer-
ing from pulmonary or other COM
municable forms of the disease shall
be segregated. However, the health
officer said he objected to putting child
rem with juvenile tuberculosis in rooms
with those having pulmonary or other
communicable types of the disease.
Until adequate facilities are provided
for children with juvenile tuberculosis,
he suggested they be placed in special
fresh air" rooms in the regular schools.
where they might get the benefit of
additional slnshine light and air