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Show CARING FOR TUBERCULOSIS Thirty-Nine Stata and 114 Local Sanatoria Sana-toria Provided, but These Are Only a Beginning. In spite of the fact that state sanatoria sana-toria and hospitals for tuberculosis have been established In 31 states, and 114 municipal or county hospitals In S3 states, vastly more public provision is needed to stamp out consumption, says the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Nearly every state east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi river has provided a state sanatorium, sana-torium, and west of the Mississippi river, state sanatoria have been established es-tablished in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Oregon. There are 38 sanatoria provided by these states, Massachusetts Massachu-setts having four, Connecticut and Pennsylvania three and Texas two. Including In-cluding special pavilions and almshouses, alms-houses, there are 114 municipal or oounty bespitals for the care of tuberculosis tuber-culosis patients. Apart from these institutions, however, how-ever, and a few special pavilions at prisons, hospitals for the insane, and some other public institutions, a grand total of hardly 200, the institutional care of the consumptive is left to prl-Tate prl-Tate philanthropy. |