. Transactions of the sixth International congress on tuberculosis. Washington, September 28 to October 5, 1908. to inaugurate thiswork, and our greatest difficulty was the want of exact numerical data, forlegislators are loath to load the State with any unheard-of institution. Wenow have no trouble in getting adequate funds to continue the work inMinnesota, for our report plainly demonstrates the economic side of thisquestion. The State of Minnesota, to date, has treated about 460 crippled and de-formed children. We have had 33 deaths; 11 have not been improved; 6have refused treatment. We ha
. Transactions of the sixth International congress on tuberculosis. Washington, September 28 to October 5, 1908. to inaugurate thiswork, and our greatest difficulty was the want of exact numerical data, forlegislators are loath to load the State with any unheard-of institution. Wenow have no trouble in getting adequate funds to continue the work inMinnesota, for our report plainly demonstrates the economic side of thisquestion. The State of Minnesota, to date, has treated about 460 crippled and de-formed children. We have had 33 deaths; 11 have not been improved; 6have refused treatment. We have relieved of disease 334 children, andthey are able to get about and care for themselves. Those remaining undertreatment give promise of even better results. No matter how extensive thedisease or unpromising the result, every tuberculous case applying to thehospital has been treated. Of these, eighty per cent, have been relieved ofall evidences of active disease. <9fifi ,^!Mfe^^ ^\^imim^m 1 - ^f^ti^-m^fh mSMmm ?mm Most of these cliildren came to the hospital on crutches: others on cots or A view of the twenty-three acres situated at Piialen Park, St. Paul, presented by the citizens of St. Paul.
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