CITY OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND MUNICIPAL
TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM
Warrensville, Ohio
To HON. DUDLEY S. BLOSSOM,
ANNUAL REPORT
1926
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE.
The year 1926 has been one of progress at the Sanatorium.
Much has been accomplished in developing the Children's Colony
to a point where this unit is more nearly fulfilling the purposes
for which it is intended, namely to guard children who are, by
reason of close contact with tuberculosis cases, likely to themselves
become victims of the disease and to give particular attention
to children who have already shown evidences of the
disease in such a way as can best be done in an institution where
the equipment and personnel are suited and adapted to the care
of little folks. A child illwith tuberculosis or with any other
disease is at a disadvantage when the institutional care offered
is by necessity in the same wards with adults. For this reason
the development of the Children's Colony at Warrensville is serving
a long needed purpose in the handling of the tuberculosis
problem as it presents itself in the City of Cleveland.
In 1926 more hospital days of treatment were rendered by
the Sanatorium than has been the case for any previous year.
The total bed days for 1926 were 93,814 as compared with 92,046
for the previous year. The total number of cases occupying beds
in 1926 was 694 as compared with 689 in 1925. It will be seen
that the number of individual cases handled was therefore but
five in excess of the previous year but the average length of stay
of all cases treated during 1926 since their admission was approximately
237 days per patient whereas the average bed days
of treatment for all patients treated in 1925 was 232. The importance
of having patients remain in the institution long enough
for beneficial results of treatment is obvious and the importance
of this matter is stressed at all times so that patients will remain
sufficiently long to obtain lasting and worthwhile results
of their stay at the institution.
The average population of the institution for the year 1926
per day was 257 whereas in 1925 the average daily number of
cases treated was 250.
CHILDREN'S COLONY.
Throughout the year the operation of the Children's Colony
has been subject to certain temporary arrangements. The building
program authorized at the fall election of 1925, whereby it is
expected to soon complete a building for the pretuberculous
children who, by reason of close contact with cases of the disease,