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their efficiency ; the camp itself was discontinued after the erection 

 of the fine State Sanatorium for tuberculosis at Wallum Lake. 

 Trolley cars were also used at the Camp Auxiliary, Montefiore Home, 

 Bedford, New York. (See plates 67 and 68.) 



The Balcony, or Liege-terrasse as it is known in Germany, is a nec- 

 essary adjunct of any sanatorium for tuberculosis. Plate 71 shows a 

 covered or partly sheltered balcony in use at a large private sana- 

 torium in St. Blasien in the Black Forest, Germany. Plate 89 shows 

 an open or uncovered balcony at the Sharon Sanatorium, Massa- 

 chusetts. In June, 1908, the author visited the latter sanatorium with 

 the Medical Director, Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, and can bear wit- 

 ness to the excellent arrangements for the outdoor treatment of 

 tuberculosis carried out at this institution. 



The records, now extending over 22 years, show that about 50 

 per cent of all cases, and 72 per cent of all incipient cases have been 

 arrested or cured.' Of the 160 arrested cases treated between 1891 

 and 1906, 133 or 83 per cent were still living and well in 1908, most 

 of them house-keepers and wage earners; in addition, 3.7 per cent 

 were doing well at last accounts, but were not recently heard from. 



We have given the particulars of these cases treated at Sharon 

 Sanatorium because the results are remarkably good being obtained 

 at an elevation of 250 feet above sea level, about 15 miles from 

 Massachusetts Bay, and about 20 miles from Boston. Sharon is near 

 enough to the ocean to be affected by the sea breeze during the hot 

 weather. 



Day Camps; Walderholiingstdtten. — The daily care of consump- 

 tives at a day camp for the outpatients of a general hospital had its 

 origin about the same time in both Boston and Berlin. It was pro- 

 posed by Dr. A. K. Stone and Dr. E. P. Joslin in 1905 in Boston, 

 and provision was made at the Mattapan Day Camps and at the 

 House of the Good Samaritan for ambulatory patients. Plates 72-74 

 show how this is carried out. In July, 1908, fifty consumptives too 

 ill to be benefited by treatment at the Massachusetts General Hos- 

 pital were transferred to the new home of the Boston Consumptives' 

 Hospital on the Conness estate, Mattapan, and entered on treatment 

 which it was hoped would culminate in their improvement to an ex- 

 tent that should warrant their entrance into the state institution. 

 They went to the camp in the morning and returned to their homes 



' See V. Y. Bowditch, Boston Medical and Surg. Journ., June 22, 1899. 

 See V. Y. Bowditch, Journ. Amer. Med. Ass., Nov. 14, I903- 

 See V. Y. Bowditch, Trans. Amer. Climatological Ass., 1907, p. 168. 



