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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 1938 TFeatures of Halfiel^/Report Dr. Hatfield declared that the ad- ON , dition of tuberculosis wards to gen- ON TUBERCULOSIS " AssocExiperatstAssiertoOnnly One In 24 of General Group eral hospitals would provide a sort of clearing house would tend to increase the number of cases detected with physicians would provide and nurses with knowledge of ! knowledge make Internes a more complete the disease and available the full equipment y of a hospital not gener- special ally found in tuberculosis . sanatoriums Is Equipped for Patients While he said there had been evident for some years a growing ne aad NATION STUDY VOTED Stendency on the part of the hos pitals to include tuberculosis warde in their plant this trend had appar ently been changed in 1935 and the a eed number of hospitals so equipped had actually become less since that . Report Holds Addition of Wards In Existing Institutions Is Most Economical Process 2 mere i e t e By CRAIG THOMPSON Special to Txa New York TIMII LOS ANGELES June Assert- time In many parts of the United States the resolution which was adopted elated notably in the rel- atively sparacly settled areas bods for tuberculous persons can be > most provided by util economically Izing existing general hospital facil- Illes or by adding wards or existing paviliona to such Institutione Experience has proved that ado- quato trentment can be provided ing that too few general hospitals in the country are equippetdo han die tuberculosis patients the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association end- od its annual session here today by for tuberculous patients in general hospitals with no injury to the reputation of the hospital and with great benefit to the patients |- Cites Present Small Ratio starting a program designed to cor- , At the present time Dr. Hatfield found only 177 of the general hon- rect the condition Through the State and local local an the pitals are prepared to Care for tuberculous patients a allo of sociations which are a part of national organization a study of about one in every twenty local hospitals are 4,200 clas- Dr. A. J. Lanza and Robert J. . sified as general hospitals be Vano Jr. both of the Metropolitan undertaken to determine which Life Insurance Company in New might be most effectively enlarged York preschted a mass of stalls- or altered to provide tuberculosis tical and case study data which led wards or pavillons and to under thein to the conclusion that the hiaz take educaitonal and publicity cam- ards in industries in which work- paigns to bring this about ers comin in contact with dust have This program is separate from the been overrated as a cause of tuber- ona approved by the association's culosis board of directors Monday for con- Silica dust from which the dis- trol of the disease through constru^ cano silicosla gets its name is the tion by Federal and State govern major cause of lung disturbances ments of additional hospitals at a among the dusts although nabos- cost of some 140,000,000 with a tos dust also chuses sometimes maintenance and finding ex- fatal lung conditions Dr. Lanza penditure of 35,000,000 a year to go with it The construction pro- advanced by Homer Folks executive secretary of the State Charities Ald Association of New York has been endorsed by Burgeon xald Both were recognizablo as such ho added He defined silicosia as a definite clinical entity A person with silicosia may develop luberculosis he said but it does not follow that the dust conditions General Thomas Parran Jr. caused the tuberculous one The program put forward today is the result of study by a commit Dr. Lanza stated as a belief that much of the tuberculosis which it too headed by Dr. Charles J. Hatfield former managing director of has been assumed la associated with various dusty occupations is prob the association and now with the ably more closely related to the Henry Phipps Institute at the Uni- general economic status of the. | versity of Pennsylvaniu earner concerned 10 LFF 0000118 TRIAL EXHIBT