The Atlanta Sanitarium

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

The Atlanta Sanitarium

BROTHER CHAS. F. CURTIS furnishes the following account of the needs of the sanitarium work in the city of Atlanta, Ga.:—

The Atlanta Sanitarium is a three-story structure of twenty rooms, including bath and treatment room, and a basement. Only eight of the rooms are in condition to be occupied by patients. The third story is wholly unfinished, and some rooms in the first and second stories are only lathed. The elevator shaft is open from the basement to the third story. No dining-room or kitchen has been built, an unfinished room in the basement being used for that purpose.

There is only one bath room in the institution, and it is entirely too small, having but one bath tub. More room is needed in this department, and also more facilities, especially an electric-light bath. The means of lighting and heating are very meager, only part of the rooms being supplied with gas. The building is heated by stoves, which method, for a large building, is not only inconvenient, but expensive.

The demand for a good sanitarium in this city is demonstrated by the fact that, notwithstanding the condition described, many patients cheerfully adapt themselves to the situation for the sake of the benefit derived from right methods of treating disease. The institution is located in one of the most beautiful portions of the city, in close proximity to Grant's Park, a large beautiful park and zoological garden.

In its present condition the sanitarium does not properly represent the work of God. Atlanta is a modern, energetic, business city, one of the most beautiful and enterprising in all the South. Our sanitarium and health work must be rightly represented in this city, and there is no time to lose.