Medical News

ARKANSAS 

WPA Hospital Projects in Arkansas.—  More than $1,000,000 has been expended by the WPA on publicly owned hospitals and sanatoriums in the state since the work relief program was inaugurated in Arkansas in 1935, according to a recent report. About $500,000 has been used toward relieving conditions at state hospitals and for facilities to treat tuberculous patients. Improvements at the state hospital unit in Little Rock accounted for $274,300 of the total expenditure, not including $159,000 previously spent by the Civil Works Administration and the federal emergency relief administration. The largest expenditure toward improving facilities for state operated tuberculosis sanatoriums was the donation of the transient camp at Fort Smith as an auxiliary unit of the state tuberculosis sanatorium at Booneville. A total of $50,000 was spent by the emergency relief administration for construction of the camp, while the WPA spent $145,000 in remodeling the buildings for hospital use.