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Hospital For Consumptives

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Day
27
Month
April
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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At a meeting of the Michigan State board of health, held at Lansing shortly before the holidays, Prof. Vaughan, as chairman of the standing committee on "Epidemie, Endemic and Communicable Disseases." made a report on the subject of the restriction of tuberculosis in muh by means of a preposed State hospital for consumptives, this subject having been referred to him at the last special meeting. The subject was discussed at great length, and itwas resolved that "this Board request of the next Legislature an appropriation of $ for the purpose of building, equipping and maintaining a State Hospital for consumptives. Prof. Délos Fall presented a preamble and resolution which were adopted as follows: Whereas, It is desirable that every step shall tend toward giving the largest amount of sanitary education to the teachers and to the people of the State, therefore, Resolved, That it is the judgment of this Board that the proposed State hospital for consumptives should be located at the seat ot the State university at Ann Arbor, in order that it may afford the best opportunities for the observation and study of this most important disease, in conjunction with the investigations now being so satisfactorily pursued, in bacteriology and other departments of sanitary science, at the State laboratory of hygiëne.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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