HOSPITAL FOR TUBERCULOSIS

HOSPITAL FOR TUBERCULOSIS

Proposed to be Built by Four Counties.

LOCATIONS OFFERED

State Tuberculosis Association Urges Erection of a Score or More Hospitals or Sanitariums in Indiana to Fight White Plague.

A meeting was held at Culver last week, attended by the commissioners of this county, two commissioners from Fulton county, one from Pulaski county, an official of the state tuberculosis association and a number of others, mostly from Culver and vicinity, to consider the erection of a tuberculosis hospital or sanitarium by the four counties of Marshall, Fulton, Starke and Pulaski, as suggested by the state tuberculosis association.

That organization is trying to have sanitariums built in all parts of the state.

It is being urged that very many of the Indiana soldiers returning from France are victims of tuberculosis.

The association insists that it is curable if the proper means are employed, and that ample hospital and sanitarium facilities are essential.

The proposal is that several counties shall join in the expense of erecting and maintainig the hospitals in order to distribute the cost.

At Culver a site near Long Point, extending up on the hill near O'Keefe's gravel pit, was looked upon with favor by the é commissioners. It appears pretty early to be considering locations, however. Monterey also offers a site, on the bank of the Tippecanoe river, and Rochester is said to want to donate ten acres of land if the sanitarium is located there.

Culver is very near the geographical center of the four counties, and lake Maxinkuckee is a pretty strong atraction.

Monterey is not very far from the center of the territory, and there are some beautiful places along the Tippecanoe.

If it proves to be true that many of the returning soldiers are afflicted with tuberculosis -- reports to that effect easily my be exaggerated -- the one certain thing is that they must have the very best care and treatment science can prescribe, without regard to expense, no matter how many hospitals must be built or the cost. Similar agitation is going on in various parts of the state -- Mar 27, 1919 Bremen Enquirer