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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Tuberculosis Camp 



on the reservation. No unimportant function of the sanatorium is that 

 which finds its result in the influence of the education in hygiene and 

 tuberculosis prevention, upon those who leave after having been cured 

 or benefited by the treatment. These men spread their new-found 

 knowledge among their associates and so extend the actual good ac- 

 complished. 



Patients come to Fort Stanton largely from sailor boarding houses and other 

 crowded districts of the large sea ports. Some are old incurable cases, but their 

 lives are prolonged and made more comfortable, and incidentally the Sanatorium 

 is in effect a quarantine station, not in restraining men from liberty, but in that 

 it keeps from the large centers of population a daily average of over two hun- 

 dren consumptives who in all probability would have continued as sources of 

 infection to innumerable others. 



Over half the cases admitted have been returned to active life either 

 cured or near enough cured to resume their occupations. 



Outside of Fort Stanton, the larger marine hospitals are located in 

 New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Buffalo and New 

 Orleans. 



The second-class stations are under the command of commissioned 

 officers, but have no hospital accommodations of their own. Patients 

 are kept in private or other hospitals, under the exclusive professional 

 care of the medical officer, and the government pays for the hospital 

 facilities under a definite contract. Third-class stations are under the 

 charge of contract acting assistant surgeons, and patients are cared 

 for under government contract with local hospitals. All other relief 

 stations come under the fourth class. Certain of these have a contract 

 surgeon in charge, but have no hospital facilities available, and the 



