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Show Immense Saving Possible. M In a preliminary bulletin on tho flj cost of maintaining a tuberculosis H sanatorium, the National Association H for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis nnnounces that tho average coat per patient per day In thirty seml-charltablo sanatoria scattered In all parts of tho United States is fl.G69. Those Institutions represent in annual expenditure of over 1,300,-000 1,300,-000 and over 815,000 dnys of treatment treat-ment given each year. Tho bulletin, which 1b part of an extensive study ' tho National association is making for Its bureau of information, points out that tho country could save annually at least $150,000,000 If the indigent consumptives woro properly segre- M gated. I |