Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1913 — CHARGE ON THE COMMUNITY [ARTICLE]

CHARGE ON THE COMMUNITY

Cars of Those Afflicted With Tuberculosis Plainly a Drag on the General Welfare. Dr. H. L. Barnes, superintendent of the Rhode Island state sanatorium, has recently demonstrated by some Interesting studies of patients discharged as “apparently cured" from that institution, that a sanatorium Is a sound Investment for any state or city. The gross earnings of 170 expa tlent* obtained In 1911 amounted to $102,752, and those of 211 cases in 1912, to $112,021. -By applying the same average earnings to all ex-pa-tlents of the sanatorium living in 1911 and 1912, Dr. Barnes concludes that their income In these two years was $551,000. This sum is more than three times the cost of maintenance of the sanatorium. Including interest at 4 per cent on the original Investment and depredation charges. Dr. Barnes concludes, however, “While Institutions for the cure of tuberculosis are good investments, there is good rear son for thinking that institutions for the Isolation of far advanced cases would be stHl better investments."