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Title: The Southern California practitioner
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Stoll & Thayer
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ndi-gent consumptives of Los Angeles, whowere still in the curable stages of thedisease, could obtain the advantages ofthe onen-air treatment and so be given a fair chance of recovery, suggesteditself to the founder of the institutionseveral years ago; for the hopeless con-dition of the scores and scores of poorconsumptives who reside in Los Ange-les and the unsatisfactory and insuffi-cient arrangements for their care andtreatment had impressed the need of aproper institution for the treatment ofthese unfortunate people upon Dr. Bar-low, as it has upon all who have evertaken the pains to investigate thisproblem. Recognizing that little or no aid wasat that time to be obtained from countyor city, and yet deeply stirred by thesad lot of these unfortunate victims ofthe great white plague, Dr. Barlow de-cided to turn to his friends for aid andwith and through them to establish, ifpossible a Los Angeles institution wheresuch work as that instituted by Dr.Edward Trudeau at Saranac Lake, New
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Solano Infirmary. Photograph II. Barlow Administration Building. THE BARLOV\ SAN) P( >RI1 I York, could bo carried on, to the direct • the one hand, of the po i consumptivi >, and on the other of the city as a whole. After careful thought and investiga-tion of desirable sites, the twenty-fiv<acres in the Chavez Ravine already re-ferred to was decided upon by Dr. Bar-low, as being the most desirable andmost conveniently located situation, andas soon as an opportunity offered, he se-cured an option on this land, which waspurchased for $7300 from Air. J. B.Lankershim, this sum being donated byDr. Barlow, who gave $5000 thereof,Mr. Alfred Solano, who gave $1300,and Mr. J. B. Lankershim. who gave$1000. The Administration Building was I and equipped at a cost of $5377 by Mrs. W. Jarvis Barlow, and the So- lano ( : Infirmary was built and equipped at a cost of $9352 by Mr. andMrs. Alfred Solano. Photograph II shows the Administra-tion Building to the right. The mainportion of tin-

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