Planning a different institution

12  STATE    OF    CONNECTICUT. Meriden,  and  all  children  suffering  with  bone  and  gland- ular tuberculosis  will  be  sent  to  The  Seaside  at  Niantic. The  new  arrangement  has  met  with  the  enthusiastic approval  of  all  the  organizations  and  officials  of  the  state with  whom  we  have  had  an  opportunity  to  discuss  the matter.  The  only  dissatisfied  ones,  that  we  know,  are the  physcians  and  nurses  at  the  Hartford  sanatorium. They  were  sorry  to  see  the  children  go, — even  to  Meri- den. The  new  arrangement  has  made  it  necessary  to plan  at  Meriden  a  building  somewhat  different  from  the one  we  had  in  mind  when  we  asked  the  last  General  As- sembly for  our  appropriation.  We  have  taken  this  matter up  with  the  Board  of  Control  and  received  its  assent  to  our change  of  plan. GENERAL  HOSPITALS  SHOULD  HELP. In  our  report  for  the  years  1913  and  1914  we  first  called the  attention  of  the  General  Assembly  to  the  absurd and  dangerous  state  of  panic  into  which  the  appearance of  a  tuberculosis  patient  threw  most  of  the  directors  and phj^sicians  of  general  hospitals.  In  that  report,  and  in subsequent  reports,  we  advocated  as  strongly  as  we  knew how,  that,  for  the  sake  of  the  patient,  for  the  sake  of  the patient's  friends,  for  the  sake  of  the  community,  and  for the  sake  of  the  coming  generation  of  doctors,  the  general hospitals  of  the  state  M'ho  received  a  bonus  from  the State  Treasury,  should  be  compelled  to  provide  a  small ward  or  building  in  which  the  emergency  and  dying  cases of  pulmnary  tuberculosis  could  be  cared  for. Our  views  on  this  matter  were  received  with  approval by  most  of  the  best  tuberculosis  authorities  of  the  country, and  by  certain  of  the  teachers  of  the  great  medical  schools of  the  country,  who  were  becoming  alarmed  at  the  fact that  so  many  thousands  of  young  doctors  who,  in  late years  had  been  empowered  to  practise  medicine, were deplorably  ignorant  of  that  most  important  of  human  dis- ease, tuberculosis  of  the  lungs. But  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  two  yiears  after  the  appear- ance of  our  first  oflHcial  protest  agains  the  phthisiphobiac attitude  of  the  general  hospitals,  the  National  Tubercu- losis Association  passed  a  resolution  calling  on  all  the  gen- eral hospitals  of  the  country  to  provide  suitable  accommo- dations for  emergency  and  late  cases  of  tuberculosis; here- tofore, very  little  progress  has  been  made  toward  a  con- summation of  this  greatly  needed  reform.    The  managers