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at night. Those given preference in treatment were patients whose 

 dependents, circumstances, and health most demanded it. The new 

 hospital and its location are picturesque as well as healthful, and 

 patients are able to remain throughout the winter. The main build- 

 ing is 125 feet long and contains dining-room, kitchen, examination 

 and rest rooms, and has a spacious veranda facing the south. It is 

 designed to accommodate 150 patients, in the two pavilions, two cot- 

 tages, and children's building. The Day Camp has proved to be a 

 great success. 



Day camps, when properly conducted, have an immense value on 

 educational lines. In addition they remove for a time the sources 

 of infection from the community and from the homes. These 

 patients cannot always go to a sanatorium but in this way receive 

 proper care during a large part of the day and may eventually avoid 

 the necessity of going to a sanatorium ; others who need sanatorium 

 care are provided for, pending admission ; and after discharge from 

 the sanatorium the camp helps to complete the cure. Dr. Otis does 

 not believe that these camps are destined to become a permanent 

 therapeutic measure in conducting the cure. 



The best location for day camps is in the forest. In Germany they 

 are known as Walderholungstatte and there are over eighty of them 

 scattered throughout the Empire. Those who are only slightly af- 

 fected with tuberculosis, or are convalescent from it, pass the day in 

 camp and return at night to their homes. The accompanying illus- 

 tration (pi. ']6^ shows these camps for adults and children at 

 Kuhfelde, Germany. These forest convalescent homes are greatly 

 favored by the German insurance societies and sick lodges. Their 

 benefits are extended to the children of patients. 



Germany must be given credit for making the greatest discoveries 

 and for instituting the most rational methods of treatment in connec- 

 tion with tuberculosis. The most thorough measures are adopted 

 by the Imperial Government, the industrial insurance companies and 

 by the medical profession of Germany. 



According to' the business report of the German Central Com- 

 mittee for the campaign against tuberculosis, there were in Germany 

 in 1908 99 popular sanatoria for adults affected with disease of the 

 lungs. These have 10,539 beds, 6,500 for men and 4,039 for women ; 

 in addition there are 36 private sanatoria with 2,175 beds, so that 

 in all, 12,714 beds for adult tuberculosis patients are available. For 

 children with pronounced tuberculosis there are 18 sanatoria with 

 875 beds ; besides there are 73 institutions, with 6,348 beds, in which 



