The contract for the erection of the Mecklenburg County tuberculosis sanatorium has been let for $97,364, according to the Public Welfare Progress, published by the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. The article also calls attention to the tuberculosis situation in Guilford and Edgecombe counties.
The article follows:
“The contract for the erection of the Mecklenburg County tuberculosis sanatorium has been recently awarded to the contractors for the total of $97,304. The buildings will be located 13 miles from Charlotte and work will start at once. The plans are very like those by which the Guilford sanatorium was built, the Mecklenburg commissioners having inspected the latter while they were studying plans for the institution. The hospital will be two stories in height and will accommodate 96 white patients. Another building will provide quarters for 24 colored patients.
“Guilford county has had a tuberculosis sanatorium for over a year, and Edgecombe county followed suit about six months ago. The first of May, a Preventorium for undernourished children who would be likely to be active tuberculosis cases was opened in Cumberland county with 20 children.
“In Cumberland county the city of Fayetteville and the county have jointly appropriated $2,000 to use for employing an assistant welfare officer. The office has not yet been filled, but the person selected will probably be a registered nurse.
From page 2 of The Zebulon Record, Friday, August 28, 1925
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