Evening star., 1937-09-16
PATIENTS LEAVE
OLD HOSPITAL TO
ENTERG[ENNDA[E.
Modern Weapon in War on
tuberculosis Hailed With
New Hope.
TWO DAYS REQUIRED
FOR TRANSFER OF PSI
Surgeon General Parran Warns at
Dedication That Control Must
Continue Constantly.

Another chapter Of progress in the
Districts long, uphill struggle to wipe
out q deplorable death record from
tuberculosis was written today as the
doors Of the newly dedicated adult
unit of the impressive Glenn Dale
Sanatorium opened to admit It's first
patients.
BY tomorrow afternoon the last of
the 2s1 men and women quartered in
the outdated and congested tubercu-
losis hospital on Upshur street will
have been transferred to their luxuri-
Gus new home some IL miles distant
In the Maryland hills. There the
District Government has expended
So, 800, 900 to date in establishing q
perfectly modelled institution as an
essential step in eradicating q disease
that last year took a toll OF 6e2 lives
in Washington.
Among the 261 patients are 81
bed-ridden men and women who
were transported in Army ambulances.
They arrived at the new hospital In
wide-eyed astonishment and delight
and were quickly conveyed to beds in
sun-lit rooms and porches. Others.
more able to stand the rigors of the
long trip, arrived by buses during the
day and quickly adapted themselves
to their spacious and comfortable
quarters.
DR.. Peabody Greets Patients.
DR.. Joseph Winthrop Peabody, who
for is years was in charge of the
old Upshur street hospital, was on
hand to greet the patients in his new
capacity as superintendent at Glenn
Dale. He was as delighted as the
patients with the perfection of the
adult unit.
Surgeon General Thomas A. Par
ran, jr., Of the United States Public
Health Service, who made the dedica-
ton address yesterday afternoon,
visualized the Glenn Dale institution
- . great diagnosis center that could,
II the need arises, extend its good
work into Ali the homes OF WASH
ington.
It was an suspicious occasion and Z
double anniversary at that. Three
years ago, on September is, the splen-
did children's unit at Glenn Dale was
dedicated. And as Col. Dan I. Sultan,
District Engineer Commissioner, was
the first to remind the audience, the
day was also the birthday anniversary
OF Mrs. Ernest r. Grant, who has done
more, perhaps, than any other citizen
OF Washington to forward the cru
sade against tuberculosis.
Navy Band Plays.
A full complement of the United
States Navy Band played in the at
tractive, though small, auditorium be-
fore and during the dedication exer-
cises which we're attended by many
officials and others who had a nand
in building the Glenn Dale sana-
torium. Hundreds of visitors during
the day passed through the receiving
rooms and laboratories Of the adult
unit, which represent the last word in
medical facilities.
DR.. George c. Ruhland, District
health oficer, who presided, delayed
the program for nearly an hour for
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen, who
had been unavoidably detained. 1t was
DR.. Parran. the head of the Govern
ment's public health forces, who
warned that mere stone and mortar"
are not enough to eradicate the scourge
OF tuberculosis. Here in Washington
we will need years of help to make up
for the neglect OF past years." the
surgeon general said.
He started by saying: twenty-five
years ago tuberculosis was the greatest
single cause OF death In the United
States. Now it has fallen to seventh
place.
This decline in the death rate.
however. has not been uniform in the
various cities and States. Washing
ton Is one of the blackest spots, with
a death record Of approximately dou-
BILE that of the country as a whole.
More deaths occurred last year from
In Washington than In
any previous year. The rate In Wash
ington Is 20 per cent higher than in
the neighboring city of Baltimore, a
city which does not itself have an en-
vlable record. The rate here is 30
per cent higher than in st. Louis. 40
per cent higher than in Boston, and