American municipal progress . for any city that adopted itby referendum. The voters indorsed this plan four to sanatorium maintains ten dispensaries with a staff of thirty-five physicians and fifty field nurses. The purpose of the sana-torium is not to house all the patients, but to encourage them tobe cared for at home. A Bureau of Special Rehef assists inremodeling and building inexpensive sleeping porches, supply-ing the necessary equipment for outdoor sleeping, such as beds,bed clothing, reclining chairs, canvas curtains. The lawspecifically says that it confers power to stamp out
American municipal progress . for any city that adopted itby referendum. The voters indorsed this plan four to sanatorium maintains ten dispensaries with a staff of thirty-five physicians and fifty field nurses. The purpose of the sana-torium is not to house all the patients, but to encourage them tobe cared for at home. A Bureau of Special Rehef assists inremodeling and building inexpensive sleeping porches, supply-ing the necessary equipment for outdoor sleeping, such as beds,bed clothing, reclining chairs, canvas curtains. The lawspecifically says that it confers power to stamp out tuberculosisin such city. The sanatorium itself is situated on a i6o-acretract in the northwest section of the city. It is designed toduplicate the beds now furnished by private its departments are a maternity section and a nurseryfor infants of tuberculous mothers. In 1905 Chicago had 200 beds for advanced cases of tubercu-losis, of which 150 were in the poorhouse. In 1915 this numberhad increased PUBLIC HEALTH 123 New York with 40,000 consumptives was equipped with3000 pubUc and private beds in 1914. Eleven thousand differentpatients were admitted to the tuberculosis hospitals in one-half of the applicants had to wait for admission untilsome one died or was discharged. The hallways of the Metro-politan Hospital were lined with double rows of beds. In con-sequence of an awakening to its deficiency, New York built theSea View Hospital on Staten Island to accommodate 1000 surgi-cal tuberculosis patients and made provdsion for more thanone hundred in each of three other hospitals. During thesummer of 1911 stereopticon lectures were given in the parksunder the Department of Health. Sixteen lectures were givento an average attendance of 2000. In 1912 motion pictures weresubstituted for lantern slides, with an attendance of 5000. In1912 the Department of Health opened eight special childrensclinics, thus increasing the number to thirteen. The
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