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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1938 June 24 DOC#: NMA096 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NYT - Say Hospitals Lag on Tuberculosis THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY. .JUNE 24, 1933. L. .. : Feature of Hatfield Report ; Dr. Hatfield declared'that the ad dition of tuberculoili ward to gen eral huepital would provide a on of clearing houie, would tend to In crease the number of cot delected, Association Experts Assert Only , One In 24 of General Group Is Equipped for Patients would provide physicians, Intarnt* ' and nurse with a mor complete 'knowledge of the disease. and . would make available the full " equipment, of a hoapllal not gener ally found In?pedal tuberculosis nnlorlum. While, he eeld, there had been NATION-W IDE STUDY VO TED evident for ome year a growing ! tendency on the part of the hoe. pllal* to Include tubercuioala ward In their plant, th li trend had appar ently been changed In 1939' and the number of hospital so equipped had actually become Im ilnce that Report HoldsAdditlon of Wards time. , "In many parte of (ho United I In Existing Institutions Is Stale," the rtioiullon which wa* adopted elated, "notably In the rel Most Economical Process atively aparacly tilled area, bed for tuberculous per*on* can b By CRAIG TH0M P80N pl>) la T U Ww To* TOM*. LOS ANGELES, June M .-AeertIng that loo few general. hospitals In the country are quipped, to han dle tuberculosis patltn u , th* NiIcnsITubcrculoai Association end >m od economically provided by util izing.existing general hoipllal facllItlee.N or by adding ward or pavilion to uch institution. "Experience hne proved that ade quate treatm ent ceu be provided lor' lubtrcnlout patient in general hoapUnte with no injury to the rep utation of th hospital, and with great benefit to lh patient*," ed II9 annua) Ion here today by Cite* Present Small Ratio d arlin g a program designed to cor rect (he condition. Through lh Slate and local ao- oclelions, which are a part of the national organization, a aludy of local hoapliaU--there are 1,200 elastilled aa general hoepltale--will be undertaken to determine which might bo rooj| effectively enlarged or altered to provide tuberculoele ward or pavilion,, and to under take educational, and publicity cam paign to bring tbie about. ' Thla program 1 aeparata from tha one approved by the eeeoclallon'a board of director Monday for con trol of the d i m through conatruotlon by Federal and' Slate govern ment of additional hoepltata a t a coat of auice 5110,000,000, w ith a maintenance and caae-llndlng ex penditure of 535,000,000 a year to go will) II, The conetructlon pro gram,-advanced by Homer Folk, executive ecretary of the. State Charities Aid Aticlallon of New Turk, hoi been endorted by 8urgeon i General Thom* Parran Jr. The program put forward today b t h r result of itudy by a commit* too headed by Dr. Cherics J, H at field, former managing director of iho association and now with tho Henry Phipps lnatliute at the Univratty of Pennsylvania. At the present time. Dr. Hatfield found, only 171 of the general hos pitals ora prepared to care for tuberculous putlenU, a nllo of about one In every twenty-rour. Ur, A. J , Lanas and Robert J, Vane Jr,, both, of the Metropolitan Llfo Insurance- Company In New Yoilc, preaehled a mass of ilnlUllcl and case study data which led them lo the conclusion th a t the hoiaide In Industrie In which work er eomn in contact with dust have beeu overrated at a cauee of tuber culosis.- Silica dul, (rom which the dltcase elllcoala gels It name, la the major cause of lung dlalui banco among the dude, although aebestoe duet also dkuits ometlmea fatal lung condition*, Dr, Lanwt aid. Both were recognisable ae uch, ho added. Ho defined IlicosM ae a "definite clinical entity." A person with silicosis may develop tuberculosis, he said, but It does not follow that the d u it condition caused the tuberculous one-. Dr. Lenta staled as a belief that much of the tuberculosis which It hss been assumed 1 associated with various dusty occupation 1 prob ably m ore closely related, to the gencrui economic d stu s of the wage-earner concerned." 0 L ++' MET-OUOOl18 TRIAL EXHIBT