Why the state sanatorium became Cedarcrest

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toria,  was  an  enumeration  of  the  cases  of  tuberculosis  that
were  then  in  the  almshouses  and  county  homes  of  the  state.
It  was  urged  that  the  counties  assisted  by  the  state  should
provide  "homes"  in  which  these  unfortunate  victims  of
tuberculosis  could  be  quarantined.  The  county  authorities,
however,  were  lukewarm  or  hostile  to  the  plan.  The  State
was  obliged  to  shoulder  the  entire  expense  of  the  establish-
ment of  the  proposed  institutions.  In  the  first  statutes,  the
institutions  were  still  referred  to  as  "county  homes,"  and
the  expectation  still  appeared  that  there  would  be  a  tubercu-
losis "home"  in  every  county  in  the  state.
Experience  soon  demonstrated  that  the  county  idea  was
unwise.  The  General  Assembly  of  1913  changed  the  names
of  the  institutions  to  "state  sanatoria."  This  helped  a  great
deal,  Connecticut's  State  Sanatoria  soon  faced  the  critical
public  and  challenged  comparison  with  the  best  of  state
sanatoria  anywhere.
Then  came  years  of  enlargement  and  development.  The
fame  of  the  State  Sanatoria  of  Connecticut  spread.  The
national  leaders  of  the  anti-tuberculosis  movement  began
to  realize  that  at  the  Connecticut  Sanatoria  many  of  the
administrative  and  scientific  problems  of  tuberculosis  con-
trol were  being  solved  in  new  and  admirable  ways.  The
great  national  and  international  publications  devoted  to
tuberculosis  began  to  contain  reports  of  the  papers  read
at  the  monthly  conferences  of  the  medical  officers  of  the
Connecticut  State  Sanatoria.  It  became  apparent  that  not
only  were  Connecticut's  sanatoria  in  the  front  rank  of  state
sanatoria,  but  that,  with  the  single  exception  of  their
cheaper  wooden  buildings  they  were  comparable  with  the
most  richly  endowed  private  sanatoria,  or  the  most  famous
national  sanatoria.  It  seemed  desirable  for  the  psycho-
logical reasons  given  in  our  report  to  the  last  General
Assembly,  to  individualize  the  various  sanatoria  with  dis-
tinctive names.  Therefore,  the  sanatorium  at  Hartford  is
now,  Cedarcrest.
The  approach  to  this  institution  is  by  way  of  a  well  paved
driveway  from  the  State  road  a  couple  of  miles  south  of
Hartford.  The  superintendent  of  Cedarcrest  is  Dr.  William
M.  Stockwell  who  has  been  in  the  service  of  the  State  as
sanatorium  superintendent  since  1910.  He  is  a  native  of
Connecticut  and  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl-
vania. His  two  capable  assistants  are  Dr.  Neil  K.  Forhan,
formerly  of  the  staff  of  the  National  Government's  tubercu-
losis sanatorium  at  Allingtown  and  Dr.  Max  Teplitz,  for-