State Consumptive Sanatorium 1905

A party of State members, including the Premier, left early this afternoon in a railway motor bus for Greenvale, beyond Broadmeadows, to inspect the Government Consumptive Sanatorium which is situated there.

Between thirty and forty patients are now accommodated in seven framed tents or “huts,” the erection of each of which cost close on L80.

Experts who have visited the place say that the site— which has already been described in “The Herald” and pictorially represented in the “Weekly Times”— is well adapted for the purpose, and that the “huts,” fitted up in the way they have been, are very suitable for the treatment of tuberculosis, especially when the disease is not in a very advanced stage.

Recently Mr Bent remarked in the Assembly that he had been informed by doctors that “no case of consumption is incurable,” and he intimated that he intended, as far as lay in his power, to try and preserve as many lives as possible.

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