Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1921, Page 10

- INPATIENTS CARE ix 10 el e == SUBGESTS CHANGE The Distrfct Commissioners would | be called upon to investigate and re- Port to Congress what change, if any, :hould be made in the present method of caring for indigent persons suf-} fering from tuberculosis in the Dis- | triet, under a resolution Senator Walsh | ©of Massachusetts will introduce. The resolution will suggest that the | climate of Washington is not suitable for the treatment of tuberculosis and that it might be advisable to send these patients to other places under the contract plan. It will suggest also the advisability of abandoning for & hospital purposes the land upon which % e tuberculosis hospital is now locat- ¢d, and that this site be used for school purposes. Suggestions of Committee. The resolution is to be offered at the suggestion of a committee representing ! the Piney Rranch Citizens' Associa- tion, which made public the follow- ing statement regarding the Tubercu- losis Hospital. _ “The Tuberculosis Hospital i cated at 14th and Upshur stre; is built on comparatively low-ly ground at the edge of a ravine known as Piney Branch valley. In addition to being subjected to the usual hot, moist climate of Washington, the pa- tients have to withstand thé added dampness of the location rand the noise and dust,_from the heavy traf- fic and street car line.on 14th street. “In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, 363 patients were cared for at the hospital, of whom 123 died, and only a few of whom were discharged .as benefited. A comparison of thoge figures with statistics of tuberculosis institutions in more favorable cli- mates and surroundings will spow that local patients are not getling the treatment to which they are en- titled. 4 “There is no disposition to criticize the present administration of the hos- pital. ‘onsjdering the money and gflms at hand, doubtless as good re- lo- d its as could be expected are ob- It is interesting to observe, where the District per man per day 1 care for criminals at the reforma- v, and $1.97 per man per day to lpok after similar persons at the werkhouse, only $1.83 per patient per v was devoted to the care of indi- nt sick who are making a life and death struggle against tuberculosis. ¥"The Public Health Service has made attempt to care for tuberculous diers in the climate of Washington, but fas sent them on contract to pri- vate institutions located with special refgrence to the treatment of the dis- The slight increase in expense fowever, that spent last fear $1.4 . ghse e nse | that might be involved in following ||} the same policy with respect to local vilian patients would be more than mpensated by the beneficial results that would ensue. | Proposed Junior High School ¢ *Under the deficiency appropriation sct approved June 16, 1921, the Com- reissioners are directed to erect a jumior high school on part of the hos- pital tract. It will cost $300,000, cbntain twenty-four rooms and ac- commodate about 1,000 pupils. A tu- Dberculosis hospital, with 200 or more patients in the last stages of the dis- ebse. should not e maintained in the | vicinity of a schobl. i :“In the same act of June 16 an ap- propriation of $150.000 is made for the ! erection of a school for the care of4 tubercular children. znd the health afficer of the District has recommend- € that it be built on th® hospital tfact. Such a school should not be eyected in prbximity to another school housing 1,000 healthy pupils, nor should it be built near the Tubercu- 10sis Hospital because of the psycho- légical effect on children in the in- ciplent stage of the disease. | ldgal for School Purposes. {«rhel hosyital tract is ideal for sfhool development purposes, and if the hespital were removed would be! wvailable for that use. An additional | teehnical high schoole for white students will soon have to be con- structed in Washington, and the hbspital tract is conceded to be the; best site for the building: both with: referense to the residences of the! present technical _school ~ student| body and the probable future enroll- ment. Business- High School, like-| wise, is in need of a new building. | for which the alumni are now! aptively at work. and the hospital | tract offers ample space for thati Project also. The hospital building itself could be readily utilized for s¢hool purposes if it were vacated. | “The District of Columbia appropri- | dtion act for 1915 contained a provi- | sion for the erection of the Gallinger | Hospital on the Tuberculosis Hospital | tract, but the District appropriation | Act for 1918 repealed that provision Apd directed the erection of the Gal- | ger Hospital on Massachusetts ave- e southeast. In the act of June 16, 21, Congress directed the erection of | &:large twenty-four-room junior high sghool ~n the tract The history of ; those acts indicates a clear policy on the part of Congress eventually to! abandoy further use of the tract for | hospital purposes and to develop it for school use. A far greater value| cgn be gotterd from the land through the latter use than the former.” | IDEAL CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF IS HELD IN CONTEMPT Given Fine and Jail Sentence for Criticising Judge David in' ‘Wanderer Case. By the Assoclated Press. ~ CHICAGO, Septenber 21.—Chief of Police Charles Fitzmorris was found guilty-of contempt of court yesterday becalise of interviews criticising Judge David, who. bresided at sanity hear- nigs in the Wanderer case, and given his choice of a $100 fine and five days in the county jail or no fine and six months in jail. The finding was made by Jydge David, who suspended serving of the mittimus for sixty days, however, to glve Fitzmorris' ~attorneys time to prepare an appeal. . The case arose over Fitzmorris' criticism of Judge David's conduct of the case of Carl Wanderers found’ guilty of murdeging his wife, her un- born baby and.a ragged stranger, who he used as a dupe in a mock holdup. _Judge David, in intérviews, then chirged that Statements made by Fitzmorris and others in the newspapers prevented Wanderer, who is under death setence, from gettipg a fair trial, particularly on his in- sanity plea.” Fitzmorris, in reply, de- clared that taking sides with Wan- derer in any way was the same thing as encouraging murder in Chcago® In a signed statement Chief Fitz- morris declared ' that Judge David's handling of some cases gave crime an impetus in Chicago. LEGION MEMBERS - SPLITON KU-KLUX Existence of the Ku-Klux Klan in this @ity was brought out following a lively debate that lasted for more than an, hour at the meeting of the George | Washihgton Post, No. 1, pioneer post of the American Legion, in the board- room of the District building last night. | ‘The debate terminated in t] legion tabling two resolutions—one against and the other faverable to the Ku-Klux. The .first resolution was offered by N. J. Cosel, asking that the post condemn ajl acttvitics of the Ku-Klux Klan and discourages any attempts on the part of members of tha legion to join. The reso- iution met defeat by a large majority vote. » Second Rexolgtion Also Tabled. The second resolution, offered by George E. Pickett, 3d, stated that inas: much as no definite charges had beeh proved in_courts against the Ku-Klux, Le Me Show You How I Ci Save You Monmey by Installing an ARCOLA Hot-Water Heating Outfit " PHILIP KEE Steam and Hot Water Heating 110 Quincy Place N.E. 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