Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — A Shite Sanitarium Needed. [ARTICLE]

A Shite Sanitarium Needed.

The latest bulletin of the state board of health says: “Indiana will some day, practice the very great economy and humanity of establishing a state sanitarium for indigent consumptives, instead of as now taking care of them in poor houses and by township outdoor relief which is extravagant and which also promotes the dissemination of the disease. A state sanitarium for the indigent consumptives and small private consumptives sanatoria for those who could <7 not pay would materially reduce the disease in a few years. At the same time we should better venti-

late all public buildings and school rooms especially, as it is there and in unventilated bed rooms that the lungs are impaired and so eventually become a soil easily invaded by tubercular infection.”