Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — UNCLE SAM BUILDING BIG NAVAL SANITARIUM [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM BUILDING BIG NAVAL SANITARIUM

Los Animas, Colo. Uncle Sam’s largest recuperation camp fob the sick and wounded sailors of the United States navywill be at Fort Lyons, near here, when new additions now under construction are completed. At present the sanitarium accommodates 250 patients, but work is being rapidly pushed on the construction olj buildings that will make It possible to care for between 5,000 and 6,000 marines and sailors who are Incapacitated through tuberculosis and other diseases. The cost of the work will be about $2,000,000. Dr. F. H. Ames, who is in charge of the Fort Lyons sanitarium, says that the 4,000-foot altitude of the site makes it an ideal location for the care of those afflicted with the great white plague, and declares the government plans to make the camp the finest of its kind in the world.