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In addition to the above named Veterans' hospitals with an 

 aggregate of approximately 8,000 beds, three of the original 

 Marine hospitals are devoted to tuberculous patients, the largest 

 one, that at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, having 225 beds. All 

 hospitals operated by the Public Health Service have tubercu- 

 losis wards, some of which, among them the large hospitals in 

 Boston, New York, Baltimore and Chicago, contain several 

 hundred beds. The general hospitals serve as observation points 

 to clear up obscure diagnoses, and the tuberculosis wards are 

 clearing stations from which patients are transferred to sana- 

 toria proper. A considerable number of the tuberculous pa- 

 tients under treatment in them, however, are those unsuitable 

 for transfer or who are unwilling to be removed to hospitals 

 outside the city. 



