first Superintendent in 1930. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Through the co—operation of the Provincial Government, vol- 
     
     untary donors and the Women’s Institutes of Prince Edward Island, 
     
     a sixty (60) bed Institution opened its doors to the sickest of the 
     
     estliggaged 325 sufferers from Tuberculosis on Prince Edward Island 
     
     in . 
     
    

    
     . Ignorance and indifference were the chief opponents in the 
     
     fight against tuberculosis during the 1930’s when the death rate 
     
     from the disease was in the vicinity of 80 each year. 
     
    

    
     By 1938, a Staff Residence was constructed, thus enabling an 
     
     additional thirty (30) patients to be admitted for treatment to the 
     
     Sanatorium (Total — 90). 
     
    

    
     Obviously, more and better facilities for the diagnosis and 
     
     treatment of the disease, Tuberculosis, were required. 
     
    

    
     In 1942, Dr. E. M. Found, a native Islander, was appointed As- 
     
     sistant Superintendent of the Provincial Sanatorium. 
     
    

    
     Through the combined efforts of the Women’s Institute of 
     
     the province, pressure was brought to bear on the Provincial Health 
     
     Department for the erection of a new wing to the Provincial Sana~ 
     
     torium in 1944. 
     
    

    
     Many Institute members will remember the meeting, held at 
     
     the Charlottetown Hotel, under the c‘apable direction of the late Mr. 
     
     D.J. Bonnell in 1943, where resolutions were drawn up, submitted to 
     
     the Government, requesting additional facilities to combat Tuber- 
     
     culosis. In addition, several radio talks and public meeting addresses 
     
     were given by members of the Health Department, as well as mem- 
     
     bers of interested voluntary organizations. 
     
    

    
     These combined efforts brought results when in 1945, a mod- 
     
     ern new Wing was added to the old Sanatorium, so that today, our 
     
     province can be justly proud of a well-equipped Institution, which 
     
     along with the three large General Hospitals on Prince Edward Isl- 
     
     and received full Accreditation by the Canadian Council on Accredita- 
     
     tion in 1960. 
     
    

    
     The Provincial Sanatorium, in which is located the office of 
     
     the Director of Tuberculosis Control and the Medical Director of Out- 
     
     Patient Clinics, serves as a nucleus of our tuberculosis programme. 
     
    

    
     Due chiefly to an expanding programme of Case-Finding and 
     
     Prevention, along with the use of the new “wonder” drugs in the 
     
     treatment of Tuberculosis. the number of cases. reouiring treatment 
     
     was reduced so by 1955, thirty (30) beds in the East Wing of the 
     
     Sanatorium were taken over for the treatment of the disease, 
     
     Poliomyelitis, and other crippling diseases, and is now known as the 
     
     Rehabilitation Centre. 
     
    

    
     The following tables issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statis- 
     
     tics reveal a tremendous drop in the death rate from the disease 
     
     Tuberculosis on Prince Edward Island over the past 24 years, how- 
     
     ever, a word of caution should be interjected. According to our case 
     
     register, as of 1960, there were 1,170 in our province, who are known 
     
     to be tuberculous, most of these are examined at intervals to rule out 
     
     evidence of relapse of disease. 
     
    
   
   
    
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