CITY OF CLEVELAND

are considered in danger of contracting the disease itself, was
developed during the early part of the year and numerous conferences
over plans for this building were held. During the late
summer the contracts were let and work begun. At the close
of the year the building is completed to a great degree including
exterior walls and roof and in every respect bids fair to become
one of the most useful and at the same time ornamental buildings
of the Sanatorium group.
This new preventorium will provide 70 beds, of which approximately
60 will ordinarily be used for patients and 10 for
employees. The employees are not housed on the same floor
with patients but are cared for on the upper floor of the two-story
portion of the building.
It is expected that this building will be equipped in its southern
exposure with the type of windowglass permitting the passage
of the shorter wave lengths of sunlight. These wave lengths
known as the ultra-violet ray portion of the solar spectrum are
now known to be of particular value in handling tuberculosis
cases but have been difficult to use throughout the year in climates
of the character encountered at the institution because
of the fact that such wave lengths do not penetrate ordinary
windowglass. Exposure out of doors becomes ill-advised and
impossible on many days during the winter.
A much needed improvement at the Children's Colony has
to do with the proper provision of playground space and the
grading and sodding of the grounds so that the sticky clay mud
prevailing does not enter into the difficulties of operation as
much as at present. Children who are constantly advised to be
out of doors at the present time are finding this difficult without
coming in close contact with a considerable amount of the
mud which prevails in the neighborhood and ultimately clothing
and shoes are soiled in this way to the disadvantage of the
floors and general cleanliness of the building in which the children
are housed.
As the construction has been going on this year it has been
practically impossible to do much grading or landscaping the
premises. The first step in this direction was taken in 1925
when a wading pool was constructed as a permanent part of the
playground equipment. This pool has proved its worth in serving
for all of the children able to be outside as a place for wading,
skating in winter, and various forms of water sport dear
to the hearts of children.
At the close of the year work is being undertaken whereby
the new Preventorium and the Administration Building are to be
connected by an underground tunnel extending some 300 feet or
more directly through the Play and Schoolhouse building which
was the first permanent structure of the children's unit erected.
This tunnel will not only serve as a means of going back and
forth in all weather for the children who must necessarily come
to the Administration Building for their meals but will also
answer to bring supplies back and forth, such as laundry supplies,
without difficulty. At first it was not thought possible to