Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — AN INDIANA MAN [ARTICLE]

AN INDIANA MAN

\(i|K,io|, ( l Hea.l of I,»r.vst Taber, culosis Sanatorium in the World. Indianapolis, lnd., June 16. —An Indiana man has been appointed head of the largest tuberculosis sanatorium in the world. This message was confirmed today at the office of the Indiana Society lor the Prevention or Tuberculosis where it was learned that W. A. Gekler, M. D., who was from 1912 to 1915 medical superintendent of the Indiana State Tuberculosis sanatorium at Rockville, was appointed by the directors to succeed Charles A. Coon, M. D., as superintendent of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Chicago. * This ideally planned and built institution for which the late Dr. Theodore B. Sachs in April gave Iris' life, will, it is hoped, now go on to completion and accommodate the 950 patients for which it was designed. The directors and city administration, after being overwhelmed by a popular protest that took material and tangible form in the recent city election, have assured Dr. Gekler. that his hands will be free to develop the institution along the lines of his choice, which means that the great institution may serve the tuberculosis patients for whom it was originally designed,- Such an end will justify the thought, work and money which Dp. Sachs and the people of Chicago have so wisely invested in the care of the tuberculous of the city.

It is of interest that Dr. Gekler at Rockville, Ind., was among the first to demonstrate to Dr. Sachs the method of successful pneumothorax or lung compression which was then in 'use by Dr. Gekler and a very few other of the most progressive medical men in tuberculosis work. Dr. Gekler was soon brought to Chicago to explain the method to the Chicago medical men and, upon the building of an expert staff of men for the new Chicago sanatorium, Dr. Gekler won the position of associate director. The positions were filled by civil service and open to all medical men in the entire United States. Dr. Gekler held that, as a measure in the interest of both... human kindness and of scientific treatment an infirmary department for those especially ill should be provided by legislative appropriation in the Indiana State sanatorium at Rockville. In view of his excellent work at Rockville and his rapid promotion since leaving the Indiana institution, importance is attached to this final recommendation of Dr. Gekler in behalf of the Indiana State sanatorium.

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