Show IN INTHE THE V OF CONSUMPTIVES Project Pr to Establish a Sana Sanatorium tOli pl Near Ne r Denyer V V V NATIONAL NATION L IN ITS SCOPE E EAF AF I oF s MEANS ANS V MAT M Y s K TR HERE HEREDen HIE 4 t Denver Den r Colo Cob March 23 To save the lives lh of thousands of persons too be po j I longing to other states from death J y tuberculosis is the object of r an ar or br br organization of Denver Denv r physicians and V other oth r professional men inca and women for forthe forth forthe the th establishment and maintenance of the Rocky Mountain Industrial Sana Sanatorium Sanatorium an which has just been incorporated IncorpOrated rated here hereTh V V The Thie organization aims to be na national in Its I scope scope and and has the indorse indorsement indorsement indorsement ment and support of or many of the foremost physicians of the United States Its purpose is to aid the th great majority majorIty of f tuberculosis patients In poor or moderate circumstances circumstances who come ome to Colorado and other mountain states in the hope that the climate and rand altitude will aid in effecting a cure and who almost invariably either etther from lack of f means or proper direction tion are immediately surrounded by conditions which preclude Improvement or recovery The story of ot the tortures and hard hardships ships of ot the consumptive of ot moderate means who ho leaves le es home and friends and attempts to make his way in a strange city while battling for health would fill fiU volumes A large majority of those coming to Denver D nver are forced Into office work or other clerical em cnn employment and to live in cheap boarding boardinghouses boardinghouses boardinghouses houses where the food ventilation and sanitation are poor to say the least Under such conditions improvement is rare and lid recovery Impossible Impassible V The attempt t will be made through auxiliary societies to reach r ach these pa patients patients patients before they leave their homes in other states so that they may be started on the search for health with withas as cheering an outlook as may be af at afforded forded by proper medical care nour nourishing nourishing food cheerful surroundings and an outdoor life Ufe in a sunny climate The problem of how heat best est to care for forthe forthe V the vast multitude afflicted with tu tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis and at the same time re remove remove move moe a great public danger has long puzzled the he brightest minds in the medical profession The subject has been discussed at every national and an state st te meeting for tor years Out of all aU the theories and schemes suggested Den Denver DenI t I ver var er physicians after much careful I study have hae organized in an attempt I Ij j to evolve practical In this I I they have had bad the advice of or prominent prominent I nent nen doctors In other cities ides who hope that the ultimate result will be the I removal of ot consumptives from large cities thereby solving another h hard problem V I Erect a Sanatorium Their The plan provides for the erection of a sanatorium about twenty miles from Denver to tobe be conducted as an anI I Industrial A large larg amount of money will wH be required d This it is ex ox expected can be raised by the cottage endowment plan j To secure secure these endowments by InI in individuals I I fraternities clubs societies churches college ollege alumnae labor unions etc the Xoung houng Sana Sanatorium Sanatorium auxiliary has been b en organized A branch bran h of this auxiliary will wm be es established in every city and nd town in inthe inthe inthe the United States It will be the duty of this society to with the board of directors to sec secure re money for the endowment of or orthe I i the cottages to raise funds for a II Il IIi IlI i a I collect furnishings for the cot cottages COttage tage and lo 10 to interest wealthy we people in inthe inthe inthe the sanatorium By R utilizing the labor of patients it is expected eX that nearly all the work of the institution Will be I performed perfo ed the entire sanatorium sup supplied supplied I plied with provisions and a great gre t va ya variety variety of remunerative industries car carried carried ried ned on The industrial nature n ture of the institution institutIon will enable patients to avail themselves of a change of climate while the disease is in its incipiency and be before befOre fore they are incapacitated for light open air employment The motto of the institution is Helping others to help themselves is the best charity Tile The institution is not for profit No dividends can be declared and the net earnings will be used for the improvement and better betterment ment of the enterprise The incorporators raters of the Rocky Mountain are William H Gabbert asso associate elate justice of the Colorado supreme court Charles Hartzell attorney A Mansfield Holmes M D The foremost physicians and aid bust busi business bustness ness men of Denver are members of the directorate and the boards of the different departments On the general advisory board are physicians of f na national n reputation belonging to large cities from Boston to San Francisco j The Denver promoters declare that success can come only by the people of each state which has consumptive pa patients lending a helping hand in placing the institution upon a substantial working basis Unless such cooperative cooperative tive support V comes corn s from citizens of other communities their invalids will willas as heretofore meet with hardships disappointments V VV V Experiments Are Encouraging The institution has been in opera operation operation tion In an experimental way for ser sev several eral months and the results so most encouraging Operations on a large scale will be begun as soon so f as the public Interested and ar a sufficient amount of cooperation Is so cured The File Young Toung auxiliary is thoroughly organized and has already taken steps to form branches in other places International Trust company is the depository for the sanatorium and donations of funds are safeguarded by bythe bythe the constitution which the dl di directors rectors supervision of the expenditures of all moneys V The benefit of sanatorium sanat are brief briefly briefly ly set forth in the prospectus as fol follows follows lows It will aill remove a constant source of danger from the private homes and hotels of our cities it will provide homeroom forts and proper hygienic and sanitary for tor patients it will wiil provide treatment by V specialists abreast of the times rimes it will wil secure the obedience of patients to the of health It will secure the advantages adva of climate long known Jo O be of great benefit in iii checking tubercular processes ses it will furnish a home for pa patients who are financially unable to avail themselves of a favorable cli climate mate at nit a time w when hen it ft will be of great reat benefit to them and at a time lime when they are able to perform light work and to be to a degree pp It will furnish an opportunity to pa patients who are financially able to pay for the privileges of the institution to take up light outdoor employment suited to their tastes and ability if they so choose thus uniting the entire institution upon the br broad ad plane of usefulness V |