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Show WELL PERSON NOT AFFECTE; Residence In or Near Tuberculosis lr stltution Denied to Be Dangerous to the Healthy. Among the most significant opinio-expressed opinio-expressed In a pamphlet on "The E feet of Tubeculosis Institutions on ti Value and Desirability of Surround;:. Property," issued by the National Association As-sociation for the Study and Preve-tlon Preve-tlon of Tuberculosis, are those by ft of the largest life insurance compani in the United States. These co: panies were asked if residence in : tuberculosis sanatorium by a heal;'; individual was considered an adver: factor in issuing insurance and also residence in the neighborhood of : sanatorium constituted such an e verse factor. Two of the compani answered the first question in the a Urinative and two in the neeative. t every one of them answered that re: dence near a tuberculosis sanatoria was not considered an adverse facte In issuing life insurance. Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, who bu. the first tuberculosis sanatorium i the United States in 1885, gay; "When I bought the first land c which the Adirondack Cottage sa: torium is built, I paid $25 an acre U ' It, but the price was then thought a surdly high. My last purchase of . 4 acres cost me $5,000. To my kno edge, there has never been an e: 1 ploye who came to the sanatorium ; sound health who developed tubere. losls while there; and a sanatoria can no more endanger the health the neighborhood In which it is bu: even if the residences are at its ve: gates, than It could if it were placr on top of a high mountain miles aw. t from habitation." |