The Practical Use of an Isolation Ward in a General Hospital for the Treatment of Tuberculosis

¹ Superintendent of Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1) The general hospital has a responsibility to provide beds for tuberculous patients and a growing acknowledgment is present of this responsibility on the part of the medical profession and its allied groups.

2) A well equipped general hospital with an organized medical service, with diagnostic aid services, auxiliary services, surgical facilities and other modern devices in medical practice, affords service for the tuberculous patients which is not always present in specialized institutions for the care of tuberculous patients.

3) Isolation units in the general hospital supplement and augment the service rendered by tuberculosis hospitals and does not in any way replace those services.

4) Special facilities for chest surgery are afforded in the general hospital.

5) Sanatorium type of institutional care is advocated for long term care of tuberculous patients.