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The Survey, Volume 23 1910
By Survey Associates, Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
MR. CARNEGIE
OFFERS LAND TO PENNSYLVANIA
Andrew Carnegie lias shown his interest in the anti-tuberculosis fight by offering to Pennsylvania through
Health Commissioner Dixon, a valuable tract of land at Cresson, Cambria county, about 100 miles
east of Pittsburgh, for a sanatorium.
The last Legislature granted $2,000,000 for tuberculosis work. As it
permitted the construction of a sanatorium or hospital Commissioner Dixon has looked for a suitable
site in the western end of the slate. He considered the Carnegie property at Cresson and wrote
Mr. Carnegie, asking what price he would take for it. Replying, Mr. Carnegie said:
If the commonwealth of Pennsylvania will promptly erect and
undertake to maintain a sanatorium on my land at Cresson, I
shall be delighted to make a free gift of it for that purpose. I have had an offer for it, and another
party is looking at it, but I shall hold until I hear from you. I know of no healthier place in the state
nor one more beautiful.
The
tract contains 450 acres and has an elevation of 2.400 feet. An investigation made at the instance
of Governor Stuart shows that it is suitable for a sanatorium, and has in addition sufficient
timber and sandstone to erect the necessary buildings. The governor and
Dr. Dixon on behalf of the state have accepted Mr. Carnegie's gift. Work will begin in the near future on Pennsylvania's
second sanatorium.
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Official documents,
comprising the department and other reports ..., Volume 8 1911
A MUNIFICENT GIFT.
The law making an appropriation to the Department for the suppression of tuberculosis contemplated
the establishment of several sanatoria in different parts of the State. The site at Mont Alto having been selected as the
first and the work having been satisfactorily carried to a point where it was possible to accommodate
a considerable number of the class of sufferers, designated by law, who were already pressing for admission, 1 turned my attention
to discovering favorable localities for other colonies. The western part of the State naturally had its claims and
higher altitudes of the Allegheny ridges suggested themselves as available. Among other sites one near the former health
resort of Cresson attracted my attention and finding upon inquiry
that it was the property of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 1 addressed him, asking what price he would be willing to place upon it.
To this request I received the following reply:
Skibo Castle, Dornoch, Sutherland.
October 7, 1909.
My
dear Mr. Dixon:—Glad to hear from you. If the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will promptly erect and
undertake to maintain a Sanatorium on my land at Cresson, 1
shall be delighted to make a free gift of it for that purpose. I have had an offer for it and another
party is looking at it but I shall hold until I hear from you.I know of no healthier place in the State nor one more beautiful.
(Signed) ANDREW CARNEGIE.
I immediately conferred with your Excellency as to the propriety and legality of the
Department accepting a gift of Ibis kind, and with your entire approval, after careful consideration,
telegraphed the following reply:"With
appreciation, accept Cresson property for Pennsylvania."The telegram was followed by a formal letter expressing the appreciation
of the Department for the generous gift. This tract consists of 400 acres on a mountain crest having an elevation of 4,200
feet, the greater part of it forest land. I at once visited the spot with our chief engineer, Mr.
F. Herbert Snow, and decided upon the exact location for the
Sanatorium and made plans for commencing work early in the Spring.
The tract is well drained with a good water supply, and is most
conveniently situated on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Public health movement
By American Academy of Political and Social Science
Tucked within the forest and thus protected
from the winter winds, but enjoying the full benefits of the high altitude, the new State Sanatorium
for Tuberculosis, at Cresson, is being constructed by the State Department of Health,
on the property given the commonwealth by Andrew Carnegie. It is so planned that four wings may be constructed, one at a time,
as needed, utilizing the same central building. Each wing or ward will accommodate 160 patients, giving a total capacity of
640 for the finally completed institution. The first story of the entire structure is of sandstone found on the property.
The second story is of asbestos boards timbered, and the roof will be of asbestos shingles.
The layout permits of the maximum amount of sunlight, with the wards so arranged as to accommodate the varying demand of advanced
and incipient cases. The central building will provide a dining room, reception and
examining room on the first floor and apartments for the doctors, nurses and
help on the second floor.
Connecting the east and west wards with the central building are corridors that have
enclosed basements through which the patients can walk to the dining room in stormy weather, and a
first floor to be used for the open-air treatment. Here the patients may sit in their rest-chairs and
enjoy the sunshine, and thus is overcome the necessity of porches that would block out
the sun from the patients' rooms. Into this sun-corridor also the patient's bed can be wheeled. To economize by using
the same foundation and roof for as much as possible, a second floor of each connecting corridor
will accommodate twenty beds for hospital cases.
The sanatorium site, about 2,400 feet above the sea level, is sufficiently far from
all industries to have pure air for the patients to breathe. The summers are cool and the winters
long and unbroken.
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Official documents, comprising the department and other reports ..., Volume 8 1911
By
Pennsylvania
"SPUNK."
"Spunk," the little
monthly periodical published by the patients of the Sanatorium has proved a valuable agency
in keeping up the spirits and aiding the recovery of the patients. A State Senator
in communication to the editor truthfully says: "It is comparatively easy to do one's duly when the eyes of many
are upon us— many frequently act fearing they would otherwise be thought cowards, but to do a brave thing when few know
of the sacrifice is really greatness and the prompting to do
it, and the act of doing it are the property of the soul."
It is an ably edited journal, with many interesting contributors and is a benefit
alike to those who write and those who read.
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Journal of the American
Medical Association, Volume 60, Issues 1-13 Jan 1913
By American Medical Association
Patients Admitted to Cresson
The first two patients were admitted to the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Cresson, January
2, transferred from Mount Alto. The resident physicians of the institution are Drs. Ellenberger, Altoona, and
Gross, Philadelphia
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Report, Part 1 1914
By Pennsylvania. Dept. of Health
A very active baby saving show was organized at Johnstown extending from the 20th to 29th of July.
The Assistant Chief Medical Inspector and the Lecturer
with the Department's Tuberculosis Exhibit both assisted the citizens of this town. Dr. W. G. Turnbull, the Director of
the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Cresson his deputy, Dr. S. H. Rinehardt, and one of the resident physicians, Dr. R. V. Zabarkes, each gave lectures at frequent
intervals, Dr. Zabarkes talking in a number of foreign languages.
Requests have continued coming from time to time during the year from points outside of the
State for the bulletin on "How to Organize a Baby Saving Show" and for
samples of the literature which we distribute in connection with our infant welfare campaigns. For a very well organized "Pure
Food and Better Baby Exposition" in Dallas, Texas, the Department was
requested to send material and did exhibit all that portion of our loan display
that we have blueprinted and samples of all of the literature which we distribute
here in Pennsylvania.This
Infant Welfare work of the Division might well be extended and the campaign
might be organized more actively with profit.
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PATIENTS BETTER CONTENTED AND STAY LONGER AT DISTANT INSTITUTIONS
Patients who go to sanatorium at a considerable distance from their homes seem better
contented and do remain longer than those in institutions near home. We find that at Mont Alto
patients stay in direct relation to the distance from which they come. Those who live farthest away stay the longest. This
we have shown to be, as a rule, geometrically true; and as an illustration, in a series of one
year's cases, 418 in all (investigated by me), who went to Mont Alto from Philadelphia the average length of stay was
seven and a half months, while the average length of stay of all cases for the same year was
four and a half months. So striking is this that the medical director of Cresson
Sanatorium, who has investigated it for his institution, and who finds it equally true,
has suggested that patients would stay longer and even better results be obtained if Mont Alto
took the cases from the western part of the State and Cresson those from the eastern part of
the State.
The above
I think are convincing practical arguments against the efficiency of small local sanatoria, even granting for the sake of
argument, that this system ever really would have amounted to anything or could have supplied the immediate need of Pennsylvania.
It never could possibly have done so, for in Pennsylvania the counties are too poor. Had Pennsylvania attempted to handle
the problem in this disassociated and incomplete manner we could not have had in twenty-five
or in fifty years the facilities we have today; and, indeed, we could never have developed the
cohesive* interrelated, and effective system in the close relationship between dispensary and sanatorium that we have to-day.
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The district reports of cases decided in all the judicial ..., Volume 24, 1915
By Pennsylvania. Courts
The Department of Health,
under the heating contract for the sanatorium of Cresson, Pennsylvania,
installed two Wainwright generators. It was found that they did not furnish sufficient hot water for the wash-tubs in the
laundry. Changes were made to supply the necessary hot water. It does not appear that the extra storage tank was supplied
when the Wainwright generator was installed at Cresson. This, no doubt, explained the shortage
of hot water. In the Patterson generator the hot water storage, as we understand, constitutes a part of the system, but in
the Wainwright, if large quantities of hot water are required, this is provided by an addition to the system not needed for
the proper operation of the heater. Whether, however, the type of generators that work according to the Patterson system is
more desirable, where large quantities of hot water are required, is a subject upon which there may be room for a difference
of opinion. But the objection that applies to the Wainwright generator, just suggested, would apply with equal force to the
Wheeler, which was named in the specifications as one that could be selected by the bidders. Mr. Anderson under his bid, naming
the Wainwright generator, was bound to furnish a storage capacity of 500 gallons.
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Engineering & contracting Jan 1915
Harrisburg. Pa.—Following contracts have been awarded by the State Health Department for work in new wing at
the Cresson Sanatorium:
Plumbing, Evarts & Overdeer, Lancaster, at $13,310
Ventilating, Barclay O'Neill. Philadelphia, at $10,080
Electric wiring, Lancaster Electric Supply & Contracting Co., $8,800;
Heating, Evarts & Overdeer, at $22,650.
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Proceedings of the annual convention , Volume 68, Parts 1908-1917
By United Lutheran Church in America
Rev. S.J. Taylor, D.D., reported on the pressing need of a Union Chapel at Cresson
Sanatorium.
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The American journal
of nursing, Volume 21 1920
By American Nurses Association,
Esther Anderson is supervisor
of the Pennsylvania State Sanatorium, Cresson, Pa.
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Smull's legislative
hand book and manual of the state of Pennsylvania 1921By John Augustus Smull (1832-1879, comp) Pennsylvania
State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis No. 2, Cresson
Staff 1921 Medical Director—William G. Turnbull, M. D., Philadelphia.
Chief of
Medical Service—M. E. Cowen, M. D., Quechee, Vermont.
Assistant Physicians—С. R. Weirich, M.D., Washington
С. C. Custer, M. D., Cresson
Consulting Laryngologist—S.
P. Glover, M. D., Altoona
Visiting Dentist—G. С Robb. D. D. S., Altoona,
Head
Nurse—Miss E. С. Allison, Philadelphia
Housekeeper—Miss Mary Moore, Altoona,
Secretary—Max Polonsky, Philadelphia.
Stenographer—Miss Irene V. Young, Williamsport
Clerk—Miss Minerva Greenaway, Wilkinsburg.
Storekeeper—Frank Christly, New Castle
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One thousand strikes of Government employees By David Ziskind
Similar strikes of kitchen and laundry workers
occurred recently in Indiana and Pennsylvania. The culinary and other “domestic” help in the
Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., struck on April 5, 1937, for higher wages, shorter hours and a closed shop.
They were granted only improvements in wages and hours. The laundry workers in the State Sanatorium
in Cresson, Pa., refused to work on Saturday afternoons. They remained out from April 24 to 26, 1937, and
returned without success.
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Dr. William Turnbull published a paper in the Theraputic
Gazette on May 15, 1922 entitled, "Heliotherapy in the Treatment of Tuberculosis". The paper
describes 2 years'
special effort to use sunlight in the treatment of tuberculous patientS AT THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SANATORIUM AT CRESSON.
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J. CLARENCE FUNK OF THE PA. STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE IN THE AMER. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN 15
SEPTEMBER, 1925 ENTITLED, "SUN WORSHIPPING IN PENNSYLVANIA". IN IT, FUNK COMMENTS ON DR. TURNBULL'S PAPE
MENTIONED ABOVE AND CREDITS HIM FOR FIRST INTRODUCING THE SUN-BATH TREATMENT FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
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Dr. Turnbull Appointed
Director Dr. W. C. Trumbull, of Philadelphia, has been appointed medical director of the new Cresson
Tuberculosis Sanatorium of the State of Pennsylvania. The Cresson
Sanatorium will be opened about the first of the year and will have a bed capacity of
320. It is the second of Pennsylvania's three State sanatoria for the free treatment of indigent sufferers from tuberculosis.
The first was the Alt. Alto institution, which was opened five years ago, and has grown in that
time until it is now the largest institution of its kind in the world. A third sanatorium is
in course of construction at Hamburg, Berks County.
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Hospital Nearly Ready
Cresson, Dec. 5, 1912
Dr. Turnbull, resident physician of the state tuberculosis sanatorium, arrived Tuesday to remain permanently.
He was accompanied by his wife. Miss Celia Conrad of Johnstown, who will be stenographer at the
sanitarium, also arrived Tuesday to remain permanently. The nurses have not arrived and the head nurse
has resigned. The sanatorium officials do not know when the institution will be ready to receive patients. The boilers were
fired for the first time Tuesday.
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ANNUAL REPORT ON THE PENNSYLVANIA
STATE SANATORIUM FOR TUBERCULOSIS NO.2, CRESSON.
1914 By WILLIAM G. TURNBULL, M. I)., Medical Director.
(A detailed annual report of Cresson San operations in 1914 including many tables of statistical
data on patients)
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Dr. Samuel P. Glover
1931
Dr. S. P. Glover is a well-known specialist in diseases of the
ear, eye, nose and throat. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School with the class of 1884, he made
special preparation for his work at the class of 1884, he made special preparation
for his work at the University of Vienna, Austria. For five years, before coming to Altoona in 1891, he taught in the American College at Beirut, Syria. With the opening
of hostilities in the Spanish-American War, Dr. Glover entered the service of the United States as an assistant surgeon.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company engaged him as a surgeon on their medical
staff, and he retained that post for
fifteen years. At present he leads in his specialties here, and is laryngologist at the Cresson Sanitarium.
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Library Work for Blind
1917
A nucleus for a library for the blind tubercular patients at the State Sanitarium at Cresson, Pa
was started early in July by members of the social services committee of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind.
Officials of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind are expecting to send to Cresson the books they have at the association
headquarters and efforts are being made to gather several collections belonging to private persons who are willing to donate
them.
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Richard E. Acciavatti
1954
* Richard E. Acciavatti after having received his B.S. and M.S. in Psychology and Guidance at Pennsylvania
State University has accepted a position as Direct:r of Rehabilitation at the Cresson Sanatorium, Cresson, Pa.
* ACCIAVATTI - a new personality, Richard Gerard,
was announced by Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Acciavatti on June 12. The father is Director of the Rehabilitation Department, Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Cresson, Pa.
*
Acciavatti, a daughter, Diane, borne Oct. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Acciavatti. Baby Diane joins two brothers, Bobby
and Ricky. September 1954.
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Jacobsburg Society Accepts Bequest
July 23, 1989|by LORNA WEIL,
The Morning Call
A
Bushkill Township woman, the last descendant of a history-making Northampton County family, has assured preservation of her
family heritage.In her will, Mary
Henry Stites gave her 22-acre property, including her 19th century home, to the Jacobs burg Historical Society "for house
museum purposes," along with an endowment of $200,000 for its "maintenance, care, upkeep, repair, security and preservation."
All family papers
to Eleutherian Mills Historical Library - now the Hagley Museum and Library of Wilmington, Del
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PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL SERVICE WORKAND THEIR APPLICATION IN PRACTICEAT THE STATE TUBERCULOSISDISPENSARY, PHILADELPHIA.
by ALBERT PHILIP
FRANCINE
April 2, 1913
State
Tuberculosis DisTensary No. 21, in Philadelphia.
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The 8th Annual Report on TB Sanatoriums by Health Commissioner 1913
This
report contains many items about the construction of buildings and systems at Cresson San.
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A Glimpse
at the Colorful History of TB: Its Toll and Its Effect on the US and the World. In TB Notes 2000 by Dan Ruggiero. (Pages 4 thru 10)
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Bed
Rest Does Not Contribute to the Cure of Tuberculosis, and the Shifting Tuberculosis Care Out of Sanatoria
BY James
Hirsch
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Authorization To Raise Donations To Build Grace Chapel
LAWS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSTLYANIA PASSED AT THE SESSION OF 1915 No.
262 AN ACT
Authorizing the Commissioner of Health to accept a private donation or private donations for the purpose of erecting
union WSJ at tuberculosis sanatoria number two and number three, located at Cresson
and Hamburg in this Commonwealth, and further authorizing said Commissioner of Health,
after reviving such donation or donations for such purpose, to erect or cause to be erected
on the said sanatorium properties or either of them, a suitable building or buildings for such
purpose, under plans and specifications to be approved by the Commonwealth and
the said Commissioner of
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That the Commissioner of Health of this Commonwealth be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered
to accept a private donation or private donations for the purpose of erecting union chapels at tuberculosis sanatoria number
two Donations tor «ec and number three, situated at Cresson,
Cambria County and at Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, or either of them.
Section 2.
The said Commissioner of Health is hereby further authorized and empowered, after receiving
sufficient donation or donations for the purpose set forth in section one of this act, to have plans and
specifications prepared for a building to be used as a union chapel, which said plans and specifications
shall be submitted to the Governor of this Commonwealth for his consideration and approval;
and, upon the approval of plans and specifications for such building
by the Governor of this Commonwealth and the Commissioner of Health, to have such a building
or buildings erected under said plans and specifications, at a suitable place or places on the
property purchased and owned by the Cresson and Hamburg Commonwealth
for sanatorium purposes at Cresson and Hamburg, or at either place:
Provided, however,
That the entire cost of the construction and equipment of said chapel or chapels shall
be covered by the said donation or donations, and no plans shall be prepared or building done
until such donation or donations have been received by the Commissioner of Health.
Approved—The 28th day of May, A. D. 1915.
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Herald and Presbyter
Volume 91
Feb 1920 At Cresson, Pa., the First Church, Rev. J. S. Helm, pastor, received
at communion sixteen on profession of faith and nine by letter. Mr. Helm, who is chaplain of
the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at this place, a few Sabbaths previously received ten residents
of that institution on profession of their faith into Grace Interdenominational Church, and one
hundred and nineteen were served at the communion in the chapel and sixty-four
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The Film Daily was a daily publication that existed from 1915
to 1970 in the United States. For 55 years, Film Daily was the main source of news
on the film and television industries. It covered the latest trade news, film reviews and equipment breakthroughs. The
following item is from the Friday
January 2, 1942 Issue (Bottom of page 8).
Elects Simplex Equipment Cresson,
Pa. — Simplex Four-Star Sound has
been selected for the Cresson Sanatorium here. Super
Simplex Projectors, Simplex Lamps and National
Rectifiers completed the job. Installation was made by
the Pittsburgh Branch of National Theater
Supply Co. __________________________________________________________________________
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