When the following was written in 1938, Dr. J. V. Pace was Superintendent and the Trustees were: Harry Davis, of Crawfordsville; Mrs. Hattie R. Brown, of Dana; Eugene C. Wharf, of Vincennes; and Dr. James H. Stygall, of Indianapolis.

In other years, persons suffering with tuberculosis were forced to seek a drier, higher altitude before they could hope for cure. Many times it was necessary for them to remain in that climate after their cure was perfected, for return to the lower lands of the country presaged a relapse. But Indiana has proved that cure for this dread disease can be had within the confines of the state. Since 1911, more than 5,000 cases of tuberculosis have been treated in the institution known as the Indiana State Sanatorium. The institution is located on State Road 36, just three and a half miles from Rockville. Its 504 acres, a beautiful site in the rolling lands of Parke County, provide a picturesque setting for the buildings of the Sanatorium. The majority of the persons treated here have been cured and restored to useful lives. Most of them would otherwise never have regained their health.

Patients suffering with recoverable pulmonary tuberculosis, residents of Indiana are treated in this institution. Preference is given to indigents and none other can be cared for until all such applications have been accepted. Patients here are given the very best medical and nursing care. The staff of physicians has had years of experience. Detailed records are kept of each patient's progress and numerous X-ray examinations are mad. Many patients are given the advantage of artificial pneumo-thorax treatments or other lung collapse procedures, when these are advisable. A well equipped outpatient department offers the public who cannot afford to pay an opportunity to come on Monday and Thursday afternoons of each week for examination. There is no charge for this other than $1.00 for X-ray film. The Township Trustee signs a prescribed blank so the patient can receive this service, and report is made to the patient's home physician only.

Patients are discharged when they are cured or when they have reached the point where they can successfully continue the treatment at home. The waiting list is so large that patients cannot remain indefinitely nor can they stay when they do not make progress. The institution is on a par with the best sanatoria in the country. A new hospital wing erected under combined state and federal grants gives the institution a total capacity of 300 beds.