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Show HEALTH AS AN INVESTMENT Fraternal Orders, Labor Unions and Insurance Companies Erect Tuberculosis Sanitoria. As an investment in the health ot their members, four large fraternal orders, two iuternalional labor unions and one of the largest insurance companies com-panies in the L'nited States have established es-tablished sanatoria for the treatment of tuberculosis, according to a statement state-ment issued by the National Association Associa-tion for" the Study and Prevention' of Tuberculosis. The Royal League, the first fraternal order to establish a sanatorium, conducts a hospital for its tuberculous members at Black Mountain. The Modern Woodmen of America conducts one at Colorado Springs; the Workmen's Circle, one at Liberty, N. Y., and the Independent Order of Foresters have one at Rainbow Rain-bow Lake, N. Y., and will soon open a second one at San Fernando, Cal. The International Typographical Union has since 1S9S conducted a sanatorium at Colorado Springs, and the International Interna-tional Printing Pressman and Assistants' Assist-ants' Union of America has recently opened a new institution at Rogers-ville, Rogers-ville, Tenn. A leading life insurance company is now erecting a sanatorium sanator-ium at Mt. McGregor, N. Y., which will be the first of its kind established i by an "old line" insurance company. |