Sanitarium News Items by L. A. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 24, 1911

Sanitarium News Items

By L. A. H.

The Glendale (Cal.) Sanitarium had a good patronage during the last winter, and is still doing well for the summer months. Among the many good things this institution is doing, is the excellent work of training real missionary nurses. A class of sixteen young women was recently graduated, several of whom will remain for a time with the institution, while others go elsewhere to work. Another class of fifteen is just starting, and one of seven members is in progress.

The training work of this sanitarium has contributed to the work at home and abroad. E. C. Silsbee and his wife, graduates of the institution, are in South Africa, where they have had good experiences in field work and in treatment-rooms. Dr. and Mrs. Kay, in charge of the work in Central China, send words of courage to the sanitarium workers, and express their thanks for being permitted to go from Glendale to their field. Another graduate, Miss Lillian Graf, is in charge of the city visiting nurses' work, doing acceptable service. Another nurse, Miss Evelyn Lothrop, who has been connected with the city work the past season, is planning to enter the Foreign Mission Seminary at Washington, D. C., to prepare herself for work in South America. The workers of the Glendale Sanitarium have subscribed sufficient to pay her fare to Washington.

W. C. Foreman, business manager of the Tri-City Sanitarium, of Moline, Ill., writes: “I am glad to say that the patronage at the sanitarium here is the best we have had in the history of the institution. The house has been full for some weeks past. I think every room is occupied, and several rooms have two patients each. Quite a number of the local physicians bring their patients for hospital care, treatments, and surgical nursing. They are much pleased with the care their patients are receiving, and are passing by the local hospitals, and bringing their patients to the sanitarium.

“We are planning to have the medical and health work well represented at our coming camp-meeting. We have purchased a new tent to be fitted up for the work, and expect to have a physician and two nurses on the ground. In this way we hope to make a strong effort to benefit the people. It may prove of some help to the institution also.”

Several treatment-rooms have recently reported a good degree of success in their work. Kathryn Vaughn, of Sioux City, Iowa, says: “My treatment-rooms make no pretensions of being an institution of any size, but we continue to have all that we can possibly do, my mother and I doing the work. We have the cooperation of the best physicians here, and treat from fifty to ninety patients each week.”

R. A. Lovell, of Knoxville, Tenn., reports continued prosperity of his treatment-rooms in the new and larger quarters. He finds it necessary to secure additional nurses. L. A. H.