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Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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ith it, I realized the advantages of the Adirondack climate, and that thebest means of restoration were unattainable to working men or women. The longtime required to obtain a cure, or even an arrest of the disease by the climate andopen-air method, and the necessary expenses it entailed when added to the loss ofincome incident to months of enforced idleness, seemed to put the practical applicationof this method of cure beyond the reach of the majority of individuals who have toearn their own living. An institution that would offer to working men and women,at a moderate cost, this opportunity and a return to a life of usefulness, seemed anurgent necessity, and induced me to attempt the establishment of such an institutionand put the modern sanitarium methods of treatment to a practical test in theAdirondack climate. The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium was the first institution in America to attempt the cure of incipient tuberculosis in persons of moderate means. In 1884, by personal 348
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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 349 appeals, a few thousand dollars were obtained by the writer, with which one smallcottage and a wing of the intended main building were erected. Each year the workwas developed step by step, and the running expenses met, principally through thegenerous aid of guests at Paul Smiths, Saranac Inn, and other hotels in the Adiron-dack region, who contributed and held annual fairs during the summer for the benefitof the institution. Its growth has been steady and uninterrupted, until a small villageconsisting of twenty-two cottages, accommodating one hundred patients, now standson the original site where sixteen years ago the institution made so humble abeginning. The Sanitarium is situated about a mile from Saranac Lake village, on a high hillwhich rises abruptly from the Saranac River, and well protected from the prevailingwinds by a high wooded ridge, while the soil is sandy and the drainage excellent.A magnificent panorama o

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