Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1910 — Immense Saving Possible. [ARTICLE]

Immense Saving Possible.

In a preliminary bulletin on the cost of maintaining a tuberculosis sanatorium, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis announces that the average cost per patient per day in thirty semi-charitable sanatoria scattered in all parts of the United States is ♦1.669. These institutions represent an annual expenditure of over $1,300,000 and over 816,000 days of treatment given each year. The bulletin, |Which is part of an extensive study jthe National association is making for : Its bureau of information,. points out that the country could save annually at least $150,000,000 if the indigent consumptives were properly segregated.