Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1918 — Finds Million Are Consumptive [ARTICLE]

Finds Million Are Consumptive

National TubercdosU Association Asks for Plans foe Cheaper Hospital Buildings

Need for increase of hospital facilities to accommodate tuberculous persons, said to number more than a million in the United States, is asserted in a statement issued by the National Tuberculosis association. The statement says in part : “It was recently reported that the capital issues committee" would probably not approve anything except the most inexpensive temporary structures. The association feared it might mean the holding up for the duration of the war of any increase in hospital accommodations. “Something more than a million persons are now suffering from this disease in the United States, and the previous shortage in accommodations has been rendered more acute by the problem of providing proper care for men rejected in the draft. “We have gone into the question with the capital issues committee and find that the attitude of its members is one of open-mindedness. The committee does not pass upon building projects which do not require the issuance of bonds, or those which can be covered by capital issues not exceeding SIOO,OOO. Permanent structures may be approved if the difference in cost is not too large. “Plans and estimates as to the most economical types of permanent buildings and of practicable temporary structures have been requested, to submit to the capital issues committee.