Show HOSPITAL NEEDED SAYS DR ODEll County Physician Returns From California Primed With Good Ideas Dr T G Odell county count physician be believes believes that Salt Lake should have a re hospital and he has returned from a trIp to California filled with ideas that put Into operation would make such an Institution a success The county commissioners are now considering the construction of a wing to the Infirmary said Dr Odell last night and that will be a step in the tho rIght direction but a receiving hospital Is absolutely necessary I understand that the city authorities are going to establish a receiving hospital This Is a much needed affair and we shoUld have had one here years ago I visited many Institutions In Cali Cah California fornia for the express purpose of get getting getting ting Ideas on the receivIng hospital and andI I find that the cities and counties work In harmony down there They have good ambulance services and emergency cases are well handled As it is In Salt Lake we have no ambulance service worthy of the name and we have to divide the work be between between tween the hospitals It Is a great ex expense expense pense and Inconvenience What we need In Salt Lake is a re receiving receiving hospital People taken taleen sick on the streets or In rooming houses ar badly handled and are not given the Immediate attention their condition de demands demands mands Then under the present system tern tem there thore Is always the squabble be between between tween city and county as to the re for certain cases Witha receiving hospital this controversy would be avoided There is no trouble elsewhere and with a county hospital to supplement the work of handling emergency cases there would be no trouble here |